The Ardern regime in New Zealand has been an embarrassment to the West. During her short tenure as Prime Minister, she has single-handedly created a new era of State-sanctioned racism and overseen a relentless campaign to erase or re-write history.

This destruction of New Zealand, which includes its name, has been done to serve Marxist activists who want nothing more than to fuel racial tension and line their pockets with guilt-ridden cash. The rot of these movements has been eating away at every branch of government. Even the water that falls from the heavens has become fodder for her government’s racially motivated agenda via the heavily criticised Three Waters project.

As the newly-freed social media platform Twitter said this morning:

Jacinda – just go!

Whether it was Ardern’s infamous ‘we are your sole source of truth’ speech, or her hypocrisy inviting Americans to fly into New Zealand in a tourist frenzy (what happened to Net Zero?) while taxing the nation’s farmers for ‘emissions’ – everything Labour has touched it has ruined. Scientists are even developing a methane vaccine for cows like some kind of mad, dystopian sci-fi horror.

Come to New Zealand? I’d sooner walk into Mordor.

This is what happens when you put socialists in charge. They smile. They play-act at ‘kindness’. They suffocate democracy with their mothering until there’s nothing left but orders barked from loudspeakers.

Socialists reward bad behaviour with government hand-outs, punish the working class with taxation, and then act surprised as crime, delinquency, unemployment, drug addiction, and abuse permeate society. ‘Why doesn’t free money work?’ They cry, writing the next set of blank cheques.

The economic ruin created by the Ardern government’s severe Covid lockdowns has resulted in a huge crime swell to the point that many New Zealanders no longer feel safe in their cities. But don’t worry, the government is busy spending a fortune catching criminals. Just kidding. They’re renaming places with largely made-up, Westernised Māori. Colonialism much?

New Zealand had a bit of a panic attack when billionaire Elon Musk unlocked Twitter and shoved all the blue birds out of the cage. You would imagine that a ‘planet-saving’ electric car salesman would be the best friend of a Net Zero autocracy, but Ardern has been rattled by his takeover of Twitter, probably because it erodes her government’s ability to control the flow of information – something that she lamented during the Covid era.

‘The fact one-in-four people felt that mis-and-disinformation was the greatest threat to them and their families. We are particularly concerned about the challenge of disinformation as we see this exacerbating a number of national security issues,’ said Ardern, during a counter-terrorism speech.

Her rhetoric is laughable. If she wants to crackdown on misleading information, she could start with the last two years of Covid messaging put out by her government. New Zealand Labour held people prisoner in their homes based on an untruth about transmission and in pursuit of a fictitious ‘Covid-Zero’ goal that was continued for political, not scientific purposes.

During her speech on counter-terrorism, Ardern appeared to complain about the rise of anti-government protests, particularly related to Covid. This is not, as is passively suggested, due to online misinformation. It was because of the tyrannical, cruel, unscientific, and discriminatory behaviour of the Ardern government which people naturally reacted to in a rightly hostile manner.

‘It [misinformation] is impacting liberal democracies worldwide, eroding trust in institutions, and our ability to respond to it as a society is being tested.’

No. The public forum, where citizens of a democracy are allowed to speak freely, is eroding trust in institutions because those institutions lied. Those lies allowed political parties, such as Labour, to re-define ‘democracy’ into a copy of Xi’s communist China where the people and their businesses became the plaything of unelected Chief Health Officers, the sanctity of body autonomy was violated by threats from people in public office, and the victims of Big Pharma were erased from public view by Social Media under the excuse of ‘misinformation’.

Governments around the world are terrified that when the people are free to speak, their speech will topple their regimes. To that end, Ardern probably wishes she had the power to ‘curate’ social media and remove #ResignJacinda which has been trending all day.

Besides, if it is national security that Ardern is interested in, it might be time to stop cuddling the communist teddy bear. New Zealand’s integration with China has made it the weak link in global security, so much so that America thought about cutting it out of the surveillance club. It’s strange that she didn’t mention that particular national embarrassment caused by Labour’s inherent untrustworthniess when it comes to security over profit.

The New Zealand Prime Minister should have lost her right to rule when she embraced the ‘vaccine economy’ built on active state discrimination. When asked about the creation of a two-tier society, her response was that of a Mao-esque ruler.

‘So, you’ve basically said, you probably don’t see it like this, but two different class of people – if you’re vaccinated or unvaccinated. You have all these rights if you are vaccinated…’ asked the interviewer.

‘That is what it is,’ she replied, through a smug grin.

Socialism revels in its cruelness when it thinks it acts in ‘the greater good’. It is the trashing of individual liberty and rights – fundamental to the construction of a liberal democracy – in favour of group obedience. Whether it is creating vaccinated groups, racial groups, or Net Zero groups, Ardern has carved New Zealand up into subservient and weak tribes.

Starvation is another feature of socialist regimes, and Labour is quickly taking New Zealand in that direction. Despite being one of the richest agricultural nations in the world, the pursuit of the UN’s Net Zero targets has seen taxes, greed tape, and social harassment against farmers grow so severe that only the government’s favourite Big Ag companies are predicted to survive.

No doubt, when food prices rise and the shelves go bare, Labour will blame ‘Climate Change’ rather than their incompetency for the food shortages.

New Zealand is a bit like Victoria… The people keep voting for despots and then wonder why their democracy has turned into a dictatorship. If you want New Zealand to go back to the way it was – a loving, free, fair, and open society – get rid of Jacinda Ardern and the Labour government.

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