Mocking Jamie Ridge’s privilege misses the building rage & why MIQ will get harder

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1. ‘Fashion blogger & socialite’? Jesus wept. WTF has she ever achieved? She doesn’t qualify to wash our leaders’ feet, never mind criticise her. Please, give me one example of anything that she has done that gives her the right to pass judgement on our prime minister in view of our incredible Covid situation? Anything! and I will apologise and withraw

   1. Sort of similar to Dear Leader before she was anointed PM.
      All puff and entitlement wind. 🙂

   2. Agree Sean. It’s a pity TDB doesn’t do videos in its header photograph/hook. We might have been able to see a little stamp of the feet and a pout in the photo-video. The social influencers cemented a loss of respect when they partied hard on The North Shore::

      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2021/10/auckland-model-influencer-dropped-from-agency-after-attending-infamous-north-shore-lockdown-party.html

      Will the new “reality’ show be called The Fanly Shore; The Patreon Shore or The OnlyFans Shore.
      Or will the new “reality’ show be called The Real Houswewives of Fanly Shore; The Real Houswewives of Patreon Shore and The Real Houswewives of OnlyFans Shore.

      Was Jamie there by any chance?? Twerking?? Working?? Influencing??

      Most Aucklanders did the right thing to put up with the COVID restrictions, but a few entitled ‘Jamie-types’ let the side down.

      Aucklander. Influencer. JAFA? Or JAFI?

      1. Hate the word ‘influencer.’ It reeks of triviality. Trump is an influencer, as are /were a number of other petty dictators. Influencer is similar to ‘celebrity’-one who is famous for achieving nothing.

2. The fact that this nothing can say whatever stupid, off the top of what passes for a head, and get the credibility she does is a shocking reflection on Nzers descent into permanent childhood….
   “Number 9000 in the ‘queue’ yesterday and I’m just absolutely baffled”.. She honestly expected the government agencies to keep track of her travel arrangements, because, well, look who she is!! Not for a second do her, or the collection of self important puff bunnies, take that number on board.. So just how many thousands are trying to get into NZ at present? My guess is that now the “pampered few” have finally clicked that they really aren’t safe where they are, they are expecting the red carpet to be rolled out for them, and the “poor ones” trying to get back to their families can wait,.. After all those people aren’t important… If these self obsessed halfwits can effect the shape of the NZ government, then the proof of our being unfit to have proper leadership is there for all to see..

   1. Yes it reminds me of National ex MP Aaron Gilmours “don’t you know who I am ” statement. It’s called entitlement.

3. Normal for 2 years almost has been international travel that is, if not off the menu fully, then down right unreliable. It’s plain as day that is what it is, no secrets. Auckland and its 1.7 million population was severed from the rest of the world including the rest of the country for 4 long months because of some me me me person having to go to bloody Australia for a break and returning with Covid Delta, FFS.

   I am over people telling us they’ve been in Norway or the UK as a run of the mill conveyancing lawyer or wherever for donkeys years not contributing Jack shit to lame ol’ NZ and now demand we welcome them back. Like you lot, we never took your abandonment of NZ personally so don’t take your persona non grata badly either. We just don’t care if you never return. Perhaps try shoplifting or not paying a parking fine in Aussie and getting a free trip back on the house ahead of everyone else as an option.

   I know we badly need Nurses, Doctors, various other medical specialists, even bus drivers but honest to God, we are not exactly screaming out for individuals whose specialty in life is taking selfies for her world audience of not many.

   Jamie should save her sophistication and gorgeousness for an audience who deserve her presence. Not boring unsophisticated New Zealand.

   1. Touche Ka Pai right on man

   2. Spot on….

   3. Seems like some posters believe this woman deserves more than the doctors and nurses required in this country but the same posters think attacking the government is good sport, so therefore feel good about themselves.

4. MIQ /3 Waters /rents/1st home buyers/ Maori left out of loop / just a few of the many issues that will make it a close race next election if National can come up with a clear message .

5. Perhaps she should have come back last month MIQ release #12 closed with 800 empty rooms in December https://www.miq.govt.nz/about/news/miqs-12th-voucher-release-838-rooms-not-taken-16-dec-2021/

   1. They were left empty because the liar in chief said they could travel MIQ free the next month. Don’t fall for her propaganda.

6. One point that needs correcting in your post Martyn; New Zealand does have a constitution. It’s just not contained in a single legal document.

7. The coronavirus that swept the world two years ago did no harm to at least 99.9% of people (government’s reactions to it did however harm the hell out of communities). Apparently Omicron is 100 times less dangerous than that ridiculous non event. Still, good time to have shares in pharmaceuticals ay, sell the magic potions to all the rich white countries?

   1. Coronavirus did no harm to at least 99.9%. And 99.9% of people who wore a seatbelt didn’t need it.

      I realise from the beginning some thought there should be no lockdowns, none of the consequent limitation on crowds gathering for events, no limiting of people coming over the border, no MIQ for those returning. And too they had it that there’d be no requirement for mask wearing.

      Do you care to suggest the sort of percentages about ‘no harm’ in those circumstances?

      1. My mistake, 99.95% of the world were not harmed by Covid-19. The harm came from governments, medico-pharma, media and business, and their vapid, brainwashed supporters.

         1. Are you not vaccinated then Ethan?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQj6IgegGYo

8. What hump? They got over the last one, kind of, in October, after a shocker of an outbreak, and what about the one before that? But this isn’t just one more mountain to climb is it, it’s open ended.

   One of the things I am noticing is medical staff burning out and walking away and the NSW/Victoria experience is perfect for that. Hence the recruiting drives here for Aussie not been taken up. Better surely you don’t thrash the medical fraternity so they last?

9. Poor Jamie, being brought up by Sally and Matty Ridge not really a privilege but it may make her an expert on muppets 🙂

10. Sure, people are angry about quarantine measures.

    Open the borders, let everyone come in, no MIQ. See how it goes. Hundreds are coming over the border. Let everyone coming in just go and get on with life. They isolate if they feel like it. (We can trust people to do the right thing of course.)

    The anger is understandable. Just like it’s understandable there’s ignorance about what a pandemic is. There are a lot of thick people who have concept of what it’s all about and they’re certainly too thick to appreciate how protected we have been.

    1. And those same thick people will cry blue murder if they open the border to everyone and we see the likes of Australia, the UK and USA.

11. Todays totals: 27 Community cases and 33 in MIQ seems to say it all. Time some who moan about MIQ got real. 27 out of 5 million and 33 out of what, a few hundred. Why does the media give self-entitled moaners so much airtime while permanent residents have been doing such a great job by comparison.

12. Yes many of us are getting sick of the privileged ones like Jamie many have had two years to come home and now we have to listen to all their bullshit. They were warned to come home earlier by Winston now we still have too many moaning about not being able to come home when it suits them despite them having a high risks of bringing Omicron with them effecting the majority of us.

    1. She’s already been home once and done MIQ.

       All documented you guessed it.

       On her Instafeed.

       1. I don’t have Instagram, so thanks for the heads-up Nigel
          JAFI
          Yeah…nah
          Definitely.

13. To be able to vote, overseas Kiwi would have needed to come home within the last three years… So that’s rather unlikely that they will turn out en mass to vote next time as they will more likely have lost their voting rights.
    Makes you wonder what it means to be a New Zealand citizen…

    1. I was going to make this point. There are a million super pissed New Zealand Citizens who will not forget how they have been treated once their voting rights are restored.

14. Don’t forget we had the travel bubble to Australia for the trans-tasman families.
    Within weeks we had the Delta breakout and three months lock down for Aucklanders.
    Every New Zealander paid the price for your family reunions.
    Lets not forget these are people who are not residents of NZ and pay no tax.

    1. And Jacinda and the Government’s Covid response allows me to walk down the main street of Hamilton nodding to people as they sit outside with their friends, enjoying a coffee, shopping and simply enjoying summer. Off camping for a week.
       Meanwhile the moaners moan. Can I suggest to them Australia, America or the UK are one way destinations should you think N.Z. bad.

       1. Well said Bert agree wholeheartedly. In my day there were no such things as influencers, but every village used to have an idiot, that everyone would pity. They would sit on the stone wall outside the village as a warning against sloth and inbreeding.

          “Don’t let the turnstile hit you all on the way out on your one-way trip to Australia, America or the UK!” Be sure to start up your influencing business when y’all get there.

          To be fair, influencers sounds like some sort of transmittable disease you get from wanting to lie about and do nothing and let people and advertisers pay you.

          Can you also persuade Brian Tamaki to put aside a few dollars a week out of the tithing fund for him and Tamaki Incorporated to set up in Trumplandia. We have had enough of Tamaki and his noisy ‘flockers’ disturbing the peace and quiet of our Sundays in Cranmer Square.

          Could Brian be described as a religious influenza? Or is he a political influenza?
          There’s got to be vaccines somewhere against ‘Influenzas’? But, he probably wouldn’t take it in the arm anyway?

15. I know what an interior designer does. I am also aware of what a TV “personality” (questionable in Ms Ridge’s case?) is and I know what a real estate agent does. But could someone please enlighten me as to what is a socialite and what does the job entail? Or is she following her mother Sally’s footsteps, being one of society’s useless nothings in particular?

    1. A social lite is a big bright light you have at a disco.

16. Obviously she didn’t make the wedding invite otherwise she would have been on the first flight in just like Lorde…

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