Message #174360

[Donald]

....mmmm.......more taxes.....more bureaucracy.....more handouts....more waste...more public servant troughers.....higher taxes......new taxes.....more tax and spend mentality...throwing money at will in true do-gooder fashion....with questionable results....🙄



Have voters LOST THEIR MINDS?


Theologians wanting to see if the Rapture was real should have made a study of Labour’s campaign launch on Sunday.

The Auckland Town Hall was the scene and the cause was the Jassiah – as Jacinda Ardern has been dubbed courtesy of her reincarnation effect on the Labour Party.

The supporters had flocked in, filling the Town Hall and the Q Theatre and another overflow area. Organisers estimated upward of 2200. They sang “everybody let’s do this” – a riff on the “everybody let’s party”.

When MC Michele A’Court warned some construction was underway behind the stage curtains, it raised hopes of a Miley Cyrus style Wrecking Ball entrance by Ardern.


It seemed apt given the effect she has had so far on what had been shaping up as a dull election, and on PM Bill English’s hopes of a fourth term – not to mention the collateral damage to the Green Party.

Ardern did not say anything new in the way of policy. She did not need to. She could have sung Mary had a Little Lamb and they would have been happy

We’re running out of ways to bastardise her name, but I’m starting to think Jysteria.  It seems that if a younger attractive person smiles and says the very same things that an older gruff guy said less than a month ago, suddenly it’s GREAT! 

Ardern is yet to set out Labour policy on issues such as income tax and capital gains tax. There will be other policy areas she will have to contend with.

To highlight National’s perceived failings on areas such as the economy and homelessness, Ardern had used the refrain of “so now what?”

The campaign launch was aimed at inspiring the faithful (and some fickle) Labour troops. It worked a treat.

But for the next five weeks, Ardern will face the slightly more sceptical voters who will be asking the same question of her: “now what?”

If she manages to pull this off, I will never have seen so many lambs willingly walk to the slaughterhouse, lie down and point at a line on the throats that reads “please cut here”.

The very same policies that have killed Shearer, Cunliffe and Little are now totally glossed over because the public is just so happy to see Jacinda.

So now what?

Let’s do this?

Spare me.

Nz herald
C slater