Jacinda’s Bombshell Resignation: Political Winners, Losers & Predictions
New Zealanders are such a pack of whinging arsehole infants who have gone bitterly Post Covid feral with their abuse SO MUCH SO that we burned out Jacinda’s kindness chip!
Who is such an arsehole that it could empty the tank of compassion that someone like Jacinda had?
Us!
We are such a vicious pack of arseholes and we broke a Prime Minister.
Fuck every single one of us!
Now the nightmare scenario of a far right ACT/National Government confronts us all as we mourn the end of an incredible legacy in just 5 and a half years.
There are of course political winners and losers.
WINNERS:
The exploiters of migrant labour – They will be thrilled that an ACT/National Government will reopen the mass exploitation of our low wage economy.
The exploiters of mass immigration – They will be thrilled that an ACT/National Government will reopen the mass immigration scam.
The property speculators – They will be thrilled that an ACT/National Government will restart the property speculation bubble.
Greedy Scum Landlords – They will be thrilled that an ACT/National Government will empower them.
ACT/National Far Right Government – Their desire to plunge NZ into
ZB Troll Farm – Their desire to destroy her has succeeded. They will all be dancing on Jacinda’s grave at the Northern Club this weekend.
Qanon feral antivaxxers – They won, they burnt out and broke our Prime Minister with their feral hatred.
Conspiracy Theory Farmers – They will be dancing and making love to their tractors.
Chloe Swarbrick – Now is the best time for her to launch a serious attempt at winning the Green Leadership.
LOSERS:
Civil Society – We broke our Prime Minister
The exhaustion increasingly etched on her face from dealing with the most challenging times outside war plus the toxic vilification of her has worn her down as we ride rudderless as a political movement on an ocean of anxiety.
We were lucky to have her, she brought out NZs best & sadly our worst.
The radioactive bile that has been vomited up on her has been a shameful low in public debate.
Women of NZ – Every woman I love and respect walked two inches taller because of her leadership. Jacinda redefined leadership in very female terms without losing any of the power. Kindness, empathy and compassion once seen as weak became powerful because of her.
Children in Poverty – Critics will point to the lack of progress on Child Poverty, but Jacinda’s inaction on that front spoke to the enormity of power the Self Serving Public Service have as opposed to her not caring.
The Environment – Jacinda tried and the corporate farmers and polluters said, ‘Fuck you’.
Māori – They never had a political supporter like Jacinda and probably never will again.
NZ First – Winston has less influence now Jacinda has left.
PREDICTIONS:
There were two Jacinda’s, the one who inspirationally shone during a crisis and the cautious incremental Jacinda that failed to deliver on policy because she wouldn’t torture the Wellington Bureaucrats into action.
Her lack of traction on the neoliberal hegemonic structural reforms made her lack transformative change, but when it mattered in the face of a once in a century pandemic, she led.
My understanding is the final nail in the coffin of Jacinda’s decision was the news that she couldn’t serve the Waitangi Day free breakfast for security concerns.
She saved us from a pandemic, we thanked her with vicious hate.
We will all be diminished as a people by her choosing to leave.
I think Chris Hipkins with Kiri as his Deputy is the likely Labour leadership.
Jacinda was the best chance of Labour winning, even when she was running on empty she could knock Chris Luxon out, her leaving wipes all previous predictions.
I think on reflection Kiwis will be actually horrified at how we destroyed and burnt out our Prime Minister so expect a sharp rebuke and political backlash of the forces that fed that political hate.
There were very legitimate reasons to disagree with the Prime Minister, this blog did so on many occasions, but there is a difference between reasonable difference and that hate speech she and her family have been buried under.
Civil Society is the loser this day.
We are all a lesser people this week.
What a terribly sad goodbye.
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Hipkins? Remember when he was sent to attack David Cunliffe, when they decided he was too much like Jeremy Corbyn?
Any Labour advisor who thinks that smarmy brat is a world leader is a political dill. Bob Hawke would crush that oversized schoolboy with his little finger.
Can he count?
Not according to Simon Bridges…..smiles
Simon Bridges, no 10 Bridges and failed leader, that Simon Bridges?…smiles
I gathered Hipkins (like Gerry) has no interest in the job, and is thus unlikely to get it.
Thank you Martyn Bradbury.
I’m so grateful to have had Jacinda as Prime Minister. It’s one of those things to be so bitter at the political game and then lose someone with so much still on the table.
I am very hopeful that someone with in The Labour Party can grasp this opportunity to make the Labour party their own in a way that Jacinda couldn’t command the whole ship.
Confronted with 3 waters and pregnant people on top of regular prime ministerial duties the full might and potential must be redeployed onto building the best party machine that The Labour Party can be in loving memory of Jacinda’s star power that will be missed.
Just while you are going through your petty political machinations and calculations, don’t forget all those who Jacinda inspired, pregnant, stoic, kind.
Don’t wast it.
Chris and Kiri sound like a good team. So my guess is Labour will choose Michael and Megan.
National will win. Working class people who think they are middle class will love their $8/ week tax cut. House prices will follow a natural cycle, bottom out and then increase and Luxon will claim responsibility. Act will shit all over the poor and vulnerable (bloody dole bludgers) and so on and so on…
Andrew and David are right.
This is a great day for the National Party, ACT, and NZ First (if Winston is needed to form a majority coalition).
Hope not though, we’d rather save the economy and reward hard-working Kiwis with targeted tax cuts and .
These little ram-raiders too need sorting out too, with ankle-braceleted and their parents fined for neglect.
Martin I share your thoughts, apart from Mike H you’ve dragged out the cockroaches, none of whom seem to have the ability to comprehend what you’re saying.
Hipkins showed us all how dishonestly self serving he was when he was knifing David Cunliffe.
From wsws – they can’t help mention TDB in their NZ articles:
‘ In New Zealand, the Labour Party’s middle class liberal and pseudo-left supporters have been thrown into despair. The “left-wing” Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury called Ardern “one of the best leaders Labour has had” and declared: “This is a terrible blow to the Political Left. We will be in shock for some time.” ‘