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An excellent article John. Couldn't agree with you more. The one thing I didn't notice you comment on is dangerous she was/is. She destroyed, along with her sycophantic henchmen so much that was good in this country that is going to take almost millennia to repair. And she will not be held to account as politicians and leaders never are. Even Hitler took his won life before he could be brought to trial. And Idi Amin saw out his days away from the people he persecuted. So too the genocidal maniacs in Rwanda.

I does us no favours that we can no longer laugh at ourselves and the humour of AK Grant, Billie T James and John Clark has become so passe that it has been condemned to the halls of obscurity by the cultural police.

On a slightly different note, I'm not completely convinced we have the politicians at the helm to right all our ills. They may be good at reading balance sheets and setting KPIs, but there is an awful lot more to building a nation than just those two things.

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Perhaps Ardern's punishment is that she'll never be widely welcome again in her homeland. (Perhaps, as a deranged globalist, she won't care?)

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Thank you..... Jewish New Zealander here.

I'm at the stage now of scales-falling-from-the-eyes regarding JA....

Brilliant title btw....

I adored her when she was in power - was under her thrall.

Labour or Greens were the only votes I'd ever cast.

On October 7th, the world and it's unbelievable reaction imploded me: I became politically homeless, and any pretence of supporting the woke and The Protest Movement - most frequently seen yelling and waving flags, opposing everything except common sense - completely fell away.

I appreciate your erudite, intelligent take on how the land lies in Aotearoa

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I sympathise with you Hans. Who would've thought that the UN and the Western Left would become anti-Semitic? Bizarre. You can disagree in a nuanced way with how Israel has responded, but the Woke reaction (like much Woke stuff) is stupid and sinister (and basically about hating our Western heritage). Personally, I think the Israelis could've prioritized from the outset systematically killing all Hamas (and Hezbollah) leadership, working down through the leadership ranks - plus identify and kill all the October 7 adult barbarians. The reality that Hamas caused this and doesn't care about Palestinians in general (simply seeking an ill-defined Jihad) must cause the average Palestinian terrible cognitive dissonance

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This is a brilliant post, thank you for taking the time to work on this. Though I was a bit young to remember Helen Clark, there is definitely something about her that is more solid and grounded.

Ardern's internet project is absolutely bizarre until you start to think of it in terms of virtue signalling and funded travel.

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Amazing that mainstream media hasn’t touched on or investigated any of these many valid points

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