UK's Starmer Talks Tough

Britain's worst ever prime minister has announced the UK is going onto a war footing. Oh really, and who is going to fight that war for you, eh? Would it be all those working class folk Labour have been vilifying for years?

 

New Zealand's Minister of Defence, Judith Collins has also been talking tough. NZ is to develop some kind of space force apparently. Now, NZ does have a space agency and several launch vehicles for accessing space, unlike that laggard Australia who struggle to keep up on a good day. But even the bold claim from Collins must be looked at askance, as like the UK, NZ struggles to recruit anyone. The issue is one of trust, the people don't trust their lies, that's all.

The Press Leaders Debate 2020

The Press is Christchurch's daily newspaper. Leading up to general elections they host a town hall type debate between the leaders of the two main political parties. Last night, the showdown was between Jacinda Ardern of Labour and Judith Collins from National.

The debate was streamed online, it was not a television broadcast event. The quality of the feed was very poor and so I could not actually score the debate as I'd not heard all of it. But what I could discern was that the town hall had been stacked with Labour supporters. Following the debate, experts all agreed Jacinda Ardern won it. Sounds good right?

Hang on, competitor NZ Herald ran a straw poll and 23,000 respondents had it 52% Collins, 43% Ardern, 5% a draw. Then a day later the number of respondents had doubled but still Judith Collins led with 49% to 45%, 6% calling it a draw. 

Do you see what I'm getting at? There is a serious disconnect between what the media want to happen, what the so-called experts want to happen, and what the people are actually thinking.

I'm going to make the call now. I'm calling this a groundswell of support for Judith Collins and National. Back in 2017 I called it for Ardern and Labour. Three years on the electorate has flipped back after a disastrous term in office by Labour. They can't get anything done. I believe the 'experts' are in for a shock come the election result on the evening of Oct.,17th.

Judith Collins Wins Debate

The odds were against her; TVNZ had stacked the deck by having current public opinion polling released an hour before the leaders debate itself, but Judith Collins pulled off a stunning victory. She did all the right things, said the right things, and looked like a prime minister in waiting. Meanwhile, her opponent Jacinda Ardern looked as if she wanted to be somewhere else. Maybe her mind was somewhere else, we'll never know. She was average, lacklustre and considering this is 2020 and global economic shambles time, we expect more of our leaders. 

Currently National are trailing in the polls, but I don't trust them, they've got to be rigged. National are doing fine and I'm picking a change of government will be the result on election day. Remember, I called it the other way back in 2017.

Coronavirus, Elections and Lack of Patriotism

Right now, New Zealand is in the middle of an election campaign. The result will decide the government for the next three years. The NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is the front runner, but hot on her heels is the National Party leader, Judith Collins.

Ardern is playing a shrewd game and I think quite dishonestly so. That's because she's using the current Coronavirus panic as a mechanism to bolster support for her regime. It is quite easy to do, here's Hermann Goering on the subject:

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

Ardern is using the Coronavirus, COVID19 as a means to convince the population they're being attacked, not by foreign armies but by the virus itself. Any opposition is considered unpatriotic and thus exposing the country to even more danger. This is duplicitous to say the least but this is the standard of discourse these days.

Will people wake up? Eventually they will, but it may be too late by then. The country will have slipped into bankruptcy and possibly no longer exist in any real sense, it will have to fold and become a State of Australia, a status it technically holds but has never activated.

Willie Jackson on the AM Show

Good on you Willie Jackson for saying what needed to be said. Turns out you see, National do hate poor people. Readers may remember me asking this very question of then NZ Prime Minister Simon "Bill" English. Well here it is folks, National were throwing people out of perfectly liveable homes. It's disgusting to think but apparently true.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/05/national-had-no-idea-meth-guidelines-were-wrong-judith-collins.html

Mr Jackson said Ms Collins was feigning ignorance "to cover for [Ms Bennett] who was fronting and demonising poor people".

"Bennett should be on her knees grovelling to this nation for what she did to our community, what she did to poor people... This is one of the worst things that a Government has ever done."