Breaking News: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Aderns resigns

I like her. She’s too good for the world.

Translation- she was going to get clobbered in reelection bid and is saving her face !

This frau annoys.

I call for direct rule by the monarch of New Zealand!

[quote] Translation- she was going to get clobbered in reelection bid and is saving her face

Ms Ardern faced unrelenting criticism for implementing some of the harshest Covid restriction in the world including lockdowns where 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑍𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑤𝑜-𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒.

But she denied the constant attacks, which continued last year as the economy faltered and cost of living rose, played a role in her decision.

Surprised the tinpot dictator isn't trying to fight it through

She saved a lot of lives in NZ. That matters most.

How r6?

She's fantastic. I wish she'd come run for something here.

Silly girl.

How, r7? By implementing stringent safety measures to keep Covid the fuck away from New Zealanders as much as humanly possible.

You're one of those retarded MAGATs, right?

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Her hair looks dirty and unsafe.

She seems like a really nice person.

Stephen Colbert is besotted with her.

She kept her people safe during the pandemic. That’s what is important.

It seems like NZ has many serious problems and she needed a break.

EnZed.

Seth Efrica.

Oz.

[quote] Aderns

Oh dear.

cc: Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Grassley

Their loss. She was a fine leader

Dignified to the last.

The world could do with more politicians and holders of high office like her.

I liked her.

[quote]Ms Ardern faced unrelenting criticism for implementing some of the harshest Covid restriction in the world including lockdowns where 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑍𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑤𝑜-𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒.

There are 5.123 million people in New Zealand.

There have only been 2,437 recorded deaths from COVID.

It's hard to argue that she didn't do the right thing.

Oh God, R11, it's fucking Poo Shoes isn't it?

She's a fucking retarded cunt and MURIEL should have banned her years and years ago.

R11 are you a New Zealander?

Another WEF "young leader" bites the dust. Good riddance to this cretin.

She makes women look weak. You don’t just cut and run. She shouldn’t have sought power if she couldn’t handle it. What a baby.

[quote] Stephen Colbert is besotted with her.

Who gives a fuck about Stephen Colbert? How random. That’s not a notable endorsement.

[quote] It's hard to argue that she didn't do the right thing.

You have no idea how many deaths there would have been had she not. We simply don’t know.

Her poll numbers are in the toilet.

She looks like Karen Carpenter.

Why is everyone assuming her poll numbers are tumbling because of her covid response? Aside from a few conspiratards, no-one here gives a shit about that anymore. That's old news.

What we care about is the lack of talent in her cabinet, the fumbling incompetence in policy, the poor decisions, the increasing costs of living, the supermarket monopolies that should've been broken up, the wage freezes for front-line workers during a cost of living crisis, bringing in record amounts of immigration during a housing/infrastructure crisis, putting through policy with hidden amendments/agendas, the seeming hold the Maori Labour caucus has over the Labour Party (giving unelected Maori tribes power over NZ's water supply), just general lack of ideas when they held a majority and could've done anything.

Now, a lot of this is decades worth of failures from governments on both sides. However, instead of at least trying to steer the Titanic to another course, Jacinda elected to get the crew to hold candles over the side in the hope that the iceberg melts. After next election we'll have a ruling party that gleefully harpoons whales and throws shit (and the working class) over the side.

I voted Labour, and what a waste of time. The main failure is that so much could've been achieved, as she had such popularity.

Oz here R29. We were very shocked today as we like her a lot. (Except for the Murdoch nasties of course).

We especially loved how she hated Morrison! But then, who didn't...

R29, what do you think of Adern's potential replacement, Maori lesbian Kiri Allan?

[quote]Who gives a fuck about Stephen Colbert? How random.

DL is the epitome of random.

[quote] Harshest Restriction.

She is trying to do what the US failed to do a century ago.

A century ago the US placed a Total Prohibition on alcohol.

She has decreed a Total Prohibition on tobacco.

My friend is a journalist who interviews them all. She said Kiri is an idiot, though not as stupid as Marama Davidson who has a room temperature IQ. Seriously dumb.

She also said (just as an aside) Judith Collins had a surprisingly good sense of humour (and she loathes the National Party).

r30, Jacinda is/seems like a lovely empathetic person. But imagine a kind aunt who suddenly won the lottery and starts giving her money away to anyone with a sob story and their hand out. Very very naive. Incapable of making any hard calls or fundamental and necessary changes to things like tax structure, housing taxes, or breaking the ever-present monopolies that rule this country.

I think that's one of the problems with champagne socialists with no life experience. They've never dealt with actual real life proper dodgy cunts. Chloe Swarbrick is another one. Straight from private school to university to internship/business that was bought for her.

Indian-origin Priyanca Radhakrishnan is likely to be succeed Jacinta.

[quote] Why is everyone assuming her poll numbers are tumbling because of her covid response?

Because people’s finances haven’t recovered. That’s why.

[quote] Historically, the Green Party had two co-leaders, one male and one female. In May 2022, Green Party members voted to change the co-leadership model, now requiring one female leader and one leader of any gender, and that one leader must be Māori.

Identity politics destroys everything.

[quote] Jacinda Aderns

The older version of Greta Thunberg.

The fecal odor of self-hating potato face Matt-fatso is strong in this thread. Half the posts, and all the negative ones, are her. Then she uses her vpn to WW herself.

Matt-fatso wants NZ, which has had 2,500 covid deaths, to be more like America, which has has 1,110,000 covid deaths. So our death rate (adjusted for inflation) has been SEVEN TIMES HIGHER than NZ’s.

But all Matt-fatso is capable of grasping is Fox News lies, so he sees her as bad.

adjusted for population size ^^^

Why do Americans always try to make everything about them?

I’ve been told in the media she’s this wonderful politician who’s been beatified and is in her way to sainthood, but I don’t really know NZ politics. I don’t give a shit what anyone in this thread has to say unless they’re a Kiwi. Please identify yourselves in comments, so I know who to listen to.

Hearing from the Kiwis is quite the eye-opener. We never heard all that dirt back in the States.

[quote]I don’t give a shit what anyone in this thread has to say unless they’re a Kiwi.

Let us know when your narcissist moment is over please. This is a forum primarily visited by Americans but with people from all over the world. You want to hear only from “kiwis?” Go join a gay kiwi forum. Bye!

R7=Rhonda Santis

Americans on DL should take the opportunity to ask Kiwis about New Zealand politics, not pontificate on a topic they know little about.

[quote] What we care about is the lack of talent in her cabinet, the fumbling incompetence in policy, the poor decisions, the increasing costs of living, the supermarket monopolies that should've been broken up, the wage freezes for front-line workers during a cost of living crisis, bringing in record amounts of immigration during a housing/infrastructure crisis, putting through policy with hidden amendments/agendas, the seeming hold the Maori Labour caucus has over the Labour Party (giving unelected Maori tribes power over NZ's water supply), just general lack of ideas when they held a majority and could've done anything.

Nonsense. People love us for that sort of stuff

I only mentioned Colbert because he was the one that kept having her on his show. He’s the reason many know who the fuck she is.

I had no clue.

She has been on the show a few times, hence people saw how likable she was.

Fuck off, R25.

It's a very millennial thing, I think. She's not that interested in the power. She wants to have a simpler life. She's probably set financially. She wants to take a break. She's been there and done that. Move on.

I've friends in NZ how like her a lot, but then they always vote Labour.

So this has effectively handed the opposition party the keys to the kingdom come election time in October. Sad thing is, the party leader is an evangelical Christian with some odd conservative ideas.

Someone above mentioned Kiri Allen. I had thought she’d make a fine choice as leader some day but maybe for now would make a good deputy.

Jacinda’s replacement will likely be Chris Hipkins as he still has a lot of remaining good will from the public and is very talented. Stuart Nash is also a contender and he’s a bit of a daddy.

Hee haw, hee haw! Front end of the pantomine horse is gone.

Her, Thunberg, Trudeau are all of a type= virtue signallers to the peanut gallery. It works.

[quote] She’s this wonderful politician who’s been beatified and is on her way to sainthood,

R42 Lots of sentimental fraus think she's the new Mother Teresa.

She isn't.

Hug a Muslim, play to the left.

Funnily enough, she has the perfect face for a hijab.

[quote] she has the perfect face for a hijab

It's scary how her face got so bony over five years.

Well r29 at least you don't have to worry about guns and mass shootings every five minutes.

[quote]She has decreed a Total Prohibition on tobacco.

They'll all be the size of whales in NZ soon, then.

How can Total Prohibition succeed in NZ while it failed in the US?

It has a big sub-class of criminal gangs (many of whom operate in Australia).

She'll be off to the U.N. NZ is fucked. The cost of living is out of control, gangs are out of control, housing prices are out of control....but we had low Covid death numbers....

[quote]You have no idea how many deaths there would have been had she not. We simply don’t know.

Yes, I'm sure by some miracle NZ with no precautions would have done better than the rest of the fucking world.

This isn't Fox News, buddy.

Better than Sweden?

OP, Jacinda Ardern.

Never trust a Mormon raised by a really bad cop. Not crooked, just inefficient and weak.

Anyone that wants to be a politician should be disqualified. Another way to pick leaders is needed besides voting. It isn’t working.

This first person is not the late NZ PM.

The tobacco thing isn't a big deal to be honest. No-one here really smokes anyway at $40 a packet.

Vaping is very very popular and is not going to be restricted.

Good riddance. She almost single-handedly ruined the NZ economy.

How R67?

People may not realize this but that is actually very rare in politics. People rarely want to step down when they have power and typically have to be made to. It reads to me that Ardern is one of the good ones. It's mostly the wrong people who want power.

It reads that her party is going to lose the forthcoming elections, r69. You can bet she wouldn't have stood down if Labour were doing well in the polls. Forcing her party to pick a new leader at this particular moment, who will not have had the chance to develop a policy platform and so will go into the elections with outdated policies that don't reflect the new leadership, reads as rather selfish to me.

She's a cretin. Good riddance.

R66 Yes, they are banning smoking. Read the news.

R70 Labour loves big personality leaders, (Lange, Clarke, kinda Adern), but they invariably have a tantrum and quit unexpectedly, there is never an obvious candidate to fill the void. Mainly because they always have little depth in their cabinet, and this time it is especially obvious.

Agree r46.

r34, who are all those people? And does National Party mean race purity and neofascism, or something else in New Zealand?

R74 National are the boogey men of NZ politics, but mainly just more fiscally cunty. The government has borrowed so much over the last two years we actually need some responsibility.

Jacindarrrr

[quote] People rarely want to step down when they have power

They do want to step down if they know a major scandal will be uncovered.

[quote] reads as rather selfish to me.

Saint Jacinda departs to her new job at the WEF.

The replacement looks like Billy Bunter.

R79 Ron Weasley.

Klangranny bait post.

Jacinda is not an upscale name.

Her replacement as PM is a man named (checks notes) "Chippy" Hipkins.

Can we just all appreciate for a moment that global diplomacy for the foreseeable future will involve serious utterance of the phrase "Prime Minister Chippy Hipkins?"

Source:

Hipkins is how NZ people pronounce Hopkins.

Nobody else will get that but I do R85. Nice work.

[quote] She makes women look weak. You don’t just cut and run.

Au contraire—only a dead fish swims downstream! Or something.

If I hear one more twat whine about this deranged-and-ambitious woman's "burnout," I'm going to order a focused attack.

You’re terrible Muriel!

Some ugly stats here—

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R91 Hmm, but not every country have borrowed billion of dollars, and left us up to our necks in debt.

What a load of horseshit R90.

Guy Hatchard is the face of the anti-vaxxer movement in New Zealand. He has an exe to grind and 99% of his claims are made up with no proof whatsoever. He exists on Facebook mostly. And we all know what that means.

The overwhelming majority of New Zealanders are very happy with the way the New Zealand government handled the pandemic. They looked at what was going on in the USA and decided they didn't want that.

Labor will be re-elected and form another coalition government in 2023 with a new Prime Minister. As will Australian Labor and Albanese in 2025.

Must really suck that everybody hates you anti-vaxxers so much aye. Nobody takes you seriously because you are all insane cult members.

R93 Win the election? Bless.

Yes, yes R94. That's what you said about the 2022 Victorian state election too...

But you just keep on losing.

What the fuck does Australian politics have to do with this? Who even is in charge of Voctoria?

LOL R96. Your innocent act is very tatty.

What were opinion polls saying prior to the 2022 Victorian state election, r95?

I’m sorry…she was always a virtue signaling cunt.

Was she your Prime Minister R99?

We were lucky to have her, and she leaves at the right time. I appreciate the Maori voice that is currently in our politics, and in making that statement I expect vitriolic replies. Such replies are made by a vocal minority. That statement will incense them further. The majority of people here (NZ) are not idiots. They knew inflation would follow the flood of money into the economy as part of the response to covid. They know this will take time and some hardship to correct. They are aware of how growing economic inequality has reduced their circumstances, and will be looking for policies that tackle this. Whoever presents these policies will most likely win the upcoming election. Those above that complian strike me as the types that can never be told what to do. How dare any government actually govern if they do not first please them! They need not be wealthy, but they will have an over-inflated notion of their own abilities. There, I said it.

[quote] He has an exe to grind

Haha, spoken like a true kiwi.

R98, the media started out with the belief the Andrews Government would be swept from office, but the longer the campaign went on the more the polls turned in their favour. In the end most of the polls were correct about the size of Labor's primary vote, though its distribution was also an important factor in their losing hardly any seats.

Jacinda can't be feeling too good about her party's prospects under her, r103, which is why she's bowing out.

The Labour party has been captured by the maori caucus, who are riding rough shot over weak, untalented fuckwits. If the gangs our of control didn't destroy their chances, 3 Waters, pronouns on Government letters and the insane Covid response has.

Hacienda’s collapse is complete. She will never again be premier.

She looks like she could eat an apple through a chainlink fence. Talk about a toothsome woman 😬

R90 gets it.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she will join Harvard University as a fellow later this year.The prestigious Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a news release that Ms Ardern had been appointed to dual fellowships.

Figures.

[quote]who are riding rough shot

Oh, dear ...

R109, what are her Harvard lectures about? How to screw up your nation's economy?

Another lecture topic: how to be a quitter.

Glad she’s recovered from her burn out and is now able to move to the other side of the world and begin a new career.

I doubt she's moving to the US, r113. These Harvard "leadership" fellowships only require fellows to give a couple of lectures and turn up to some events.

I wondered what happened to Shelley Duvall.

R109 NZ is one of the most provincial and sad settlements in the English-speaking world. Don't blame her wanting to leave.

Of course a university is going to jump at the opportunity to hire another lunatic progressive. Does she have fibromyalgia yet?

She makes women look really bad in leadership roles. Get some ovaries, dear!

Disappointing ending.

R29 and R34 are pretty much spot on. Labour's initial handling of covid was excellent, but they overreached themselves later on, and their initial handling of the covid crisis obscured the fact that they had and still have very few competent people with real world experience and too many idealogues.

As a result she was quite widely disliked here, although I personally didnt bear her any ill will just thought she was out of her depth. R105 is also largely correct about this government's extremely lacklustre response to the serious crime and gang issues we are now experiencing,

That said the opposition are little better. R74 the National Party doesnt mean race purity and neofascism, but just a slightly different flavour of mediocrity, incompetence and stupidity, but maybe just a teensy little bit less of it

I dont know who to vote for, none of the options are appealing at the moment. Shits fucked