FarQ_Labour

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Remember when Jacinda Ardern told us she was our single source of truth.

Chris Hipkins is the same kind of person.

These are bad people.

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@foundersam

[Sande Chin The Underinfluencer @SandeChin]

Another Labour lie

[asciidude @asciidude]

The Aussies are open about Ardern's lack of integrity and economic incompetence.

“Well done, Jacinda, for looking after yourself and your family while leaving devastation behind for the rest of us Kiwis to pick up the mess you left us with to fix,”
#nzpol
https://t.co/xQVRAEIIKB

[Ro Edge @rosey_nz]

"Dame Jacinda Ardern wants to be closer to NZ, by living in Australia.

She's a republican, but happy to take a Knighthood.

And giving multiple interviews, but wants to live the quiet life.

Ardern is utterly insufferable."

Bang on by Andrew on @theplatform_nz this morning.

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

So now the Maori Party are actively telling Maori voters not to give “The Maori Party” the party vote - after just starting a campaign to get more people on the Maori roll.

They keep up this pretence of the Maori roll, Maori seats, and Maori vote as being essential to the representation of Maori, yet they are wanting now to use Maori voters as a pawn to undermine democracy.

It just highlights what a hypocritical disgrace they are to democracy and to Maoridom.

[Darren Watson @DarrenWatson_NZ]

My dear left and/or slightly left friends. Before you consider switching your party vote to the so-called 'blue-teal' of the imho ludicrously named 'Opportunity Party' please consider this:

1. As far as I can assertain this party's structure is ENTIRELY undemocratic. It is governed by a three person, unelected board. They select all the candidates. The party 'membership' does not get to vote on anything internal to the party, and especially not policy.

2. It's new leader, a very personable and erudite younger person, applied for the leadership role as one would a JOB, from an advertisement. She has no previous history as an active member of a political party, or activist of any kind, and we have no idea of what her real deeply held political views are - if any. She was essentially hired as a spokesperson by a small, undemocratic board. This party appears to be essentially a corporate structure that makes National look super democratic...

3. The party's day to day operations are run by a former Labour Cabinet Minister who was publicly sacked by Jacinda Ardern in 2020 for a severe lack of judgment involving an inappropriate relationship with a staffer under his authority, which ended his parliamentary career in disgrace.

4. The 'party' is massively funded by some real big money Kiwis.

If, after reading that - and checking the facts, you think yep, I'll vote for that, then good luck to you I guess.

I couldn't. YMMV

#nzpol

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Why Jacinda Ardern was the worst thing that happened to New Zealand.

Not because every problem started with her.

They did not.

Not because every bad decision was hers alone.

It was because she changed the moral direction of the country.

Before Jacinda, New Zealand still had a rough idea of what it was meant to be.

Free people.

Practical people.

Independent people.

People who worked, built, traded, raised families, solved problems, and expected government to mostly leave them alone.

Then Jacinda arrived with one word.

Kindness.

And that word did enormous damage.

Because kindness is voluntary.

You choose to help.

You choose to give.

You choose to care.

But when the state forces one person to live for another, that is not kindness.

That is coercion.

When the state takes your money and calls it compassion, that is not charity.

That is theft with better branding.

COVID exposed the worldview.

The government decided whether you could work.

Whether your business was essential.

Whether you could travel.

Whether you could see family.

Whether you could come home to your own country.

Whether your speech was acceptable.

Then they told New Zealanders the government would be the single source of truth.

That sentence should have terrified every free person.

Free countries do not have a single source of truth.

Free people think.

Free people question.

Free people disagree.

Free people are allowed to be wrong.

A society with one official truth is not free.

It is being trained to obey.

That was her real legacy.

She made dependency look moral.

She made obedience look virtuous.

She made fear look responsible.

She made control look compassionate.

She moved New Zealand away from the individual and toward the collective.

Away from freedom and toward permission.

Away from responsibility and toward dependency.

Away from truth and toward official narrative.

Away from production and toward redistribution.

Ayn Rand was right.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual.

Once you sacrifice the individual to the collective, there are no rights left.

There is only power.

The state decides who pays, who obeys, who is punished, and who is rewarded.

I do not judge Jacinda by the smile.

I do not judge her by the magazine covers.

I do not judge her by the international applause.

I judge her by one standard.

Did she make New Zealand more free or less free?

The answer is obvious.

She made New Zealand less free.

That is her legacy.

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@fr33k1w1 Get real, another trough sucker

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@Mountain_Tui Time for a bit of shoplifting

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@Suitandtie9999 Gas lighter

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@MariaSherwood2 Bullshit

[Sir Chippo D'Failure @ramarata333]

These Maggots want to Rob the countrys hardest workers to give to the people that cannot be bothered to help themselves.

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@Pukeko65

[Heather..✨️🇳🇿 @Pukeko65]

Seriously, the education dept had 600 staff during Clark and then it went up to 5000 with Ardern

[Simeon Brown @SimeonBrownMP]

Chris Hipkins has just told New Zealanders that Labour will scrap the country’s energy backstop and reinstate the ban on oil and gas exploration.

You have to ask, does Labour’s energy policy come with a free can opener? Because if Hipkins gets his way, Kiwi families will be eating cold spaghetti from a can, in the dark.

Labour’s plan to keep the lights on and power bills down? You’re looking at it.

Just hope. Hope that it rains.

But when the sun doesn’t shine, the wind doesn’t blow, and the lakes are low, we need a backup. You can’t run a country on wishful thinking.

New Zealand needs renewables and a reliable backstop, so every household has secure, affordable power, and so we can protect the jobs Kiwis work so hard at.

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

Their contempt for voters is extraordinary!

Labour admits it will not release ‘cornerstone’ policy costing and job modelling until after the election, blames Treaty of Waitangi concerns https://t.co/UVnhDrES55

[FarQ_Labour @FQ_Labour]

@mauriceraiti They being Liebour

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Why Chris Hipkins is unfit to be Prime Minister

Forget the spin. Look at the record.

Hipkins ran the COVID response. He ran the spending. He built Te Pūkenga. Three of the biggest calls of the last decade. All three went wrong.

Start with COVID.

The Royal Commission has now reported. It found the exit from elimination was mishandled. It found decision making drifted away from expert advice. It found Auckland was locked down longer than it needed to be.

Longer than it needed to be. Sit with that. Businesses shut. Families kept apart. Kids kept out of school. And the official inquiry says it went on too long.

Hipkins says he made mistakes "with hindsight." Hindsight. People were saying it at the time. He just was not listening then. He still will not apologise to Auckland now.

Now the money.

Labour spent tens of billions during the pandemic. Much of it untargeted. Much of it with no real link to the virus at all. That spending helped fuel the inflation that pushed up your mortgage, your rent, your groceries. You are still paying for his decisions today. Every week.

Then Te Pūkenga.

He took 16 polytechnics and merged them into one. The merger went further than officials recommended. It then collapsed into deficits and dysfunction. A flagship reform that became a flagship failure.

So that is the record. COVID exit mishandled. Spending out of control. His signature reform in ruins.

And here is the part that should bother every New Zealander.

When the Royal Commission offered him the chance to front the public and answer for all of it, he refused. The man who stood at the podium every day at 1pm telling the country to trust him would not stand up once and be questioned. He hid behind lawyers instead.

This is the same man whose Cabinet paper carried advice about heart risks from a second vaccine dose in teenagers. He now says he does not recall it.

Does not recall it.

You cannot run the country on "with hindsight" and "I do not recall."

A Prime Minister owns the call. Owns the cost. Owns the consequence. Hipkins owns none of it. He admits mistakes only when the evidence forces him to, apologises for nothing, and ducks the room the moment real accountability arrives.

That is not bad luck. That is a pattern. And that pattern is the reason he is unfit to be Prime Minister.