Jacinda Arden didn’t burn out.
Are YOU at risk of burnout? Experts reveal 5 simple steps to avoid being overwhelmed, after Jacinda Arden resigned because there wasn’t ‘enough in the tank’
This evil narcissist resigned because, oddly enough, she has a smidgen of self-awareness. Enough at least, to realise that New Zealanders had had enough of her brand of kindness. The kind of kindness that involves locking a country down and enforcing people to have experimental jabs. A deeply authoritarian creep who did it all for the good of New Zealanders whether they wanted it or not. I recall watching her responding to questions about her policies and the body language and facial expressions were at odds with those of a normal human being when faced with real life consequences – you know, people dying as a direct result of her policies, people losing their livelihoods, that sort of thing. The vile woman was suppressing a smile (unsuccessfully). But, no, she was being ‘kind.’ If that’s kindness, give me the cruelty of the old fashioned robber baron. At least you know where you stand with them (yes, I know I’m channelling C S Lewis).
Jacinda Arden is an example of the banality of evil. A somewhat dim person (See also Justin Trudeau in Canada) who is so convinced of her own rightness, that she had the sheer gall to tell New Zealanders that she and her government were the ones to go to for information on Covid 19 – because she had all the answers and the keys to the truth. This is a woman who sucked up to the CCP, for crying out loud.
This woman is nowhere near burned out (expect her to crop up in some sinecure with the WEF, UN or some other suitably abhorrent organisation). She has just reached the end of this line and is going before she loses an election, leaving that to whoever takes the helm of her party. A thoroughly nasty, vile woman who became the darling of the left. Because, of course, she is young, a woman and ‘kind.’
Horrible woman.
She was regarded by many as a mini dictator.
Bob Monkhouse said “In show business, if you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made”.
I propose an updated quote for today: “In politics, if you can fake kindness you’ve got it made”.
But fake sincerity, fake kindness, and even fake news is just one thin revelation from disaster. I wonder what revelation Jacinda Arden is trying to disconnect herself from?
Well said. I think it is quite possible that there is some scandal about to burst and this is her way of trying to distance herself from it.
Actually very few people in NZ consider Ardern a mini-dictator. That’s a meme thing outside NZ, but like the adulation she gets from foreigners does not match the reality inside NZ. Those who dislike her restrictions on liberty never voted for her at any time, and so cannot be the reason she has lost the public.
The % of people in NZ who want her gone because of her authoritarian instincts is in the single digits. She didn’t introduce any new legislation for Covid, and once lockdowns ended we returned to the status quo. Her “hate speech” legislation is mild compared to most of the world, and likely to be greatly watered down anyway. The upcoming election will barely mention the Labour government’s authoritarianism, because it isn’t what people have been concerned by.
She is gone-burger because she was ineffective at her core tasks. Things did not get done — housing, health, industrial growth.
There’s no need for any great revelation. There is no conspiracy. She just didn’t do large parts of her core job very well.
I think Chester is right. It is good to see a nasty authoritarian leave the scene but her authoritarianism is far from the main reason for her unpopularity in NZ. Basically she has been lousy at the day job, a fact that our ever feeble MSM appear to be unaware of. Far from departing with saintly dignity, as some in our media would have it, she is in fact a rat leaving a ship she has been largely responsible for sinking.
Sadly, I have to agree with LR that she is likely to reappear in some international position from which she can lecture us with her superficial banalities.
So she’s NZ’s Nicola Sturgeon – I thought so…
She has jumped before she was pushed, it is as simple as that.As Chester Draws says, her government has failed in most of the things which concern the population at large. Housing, cost of living, schools, crime, all failures.Their latest lunacy the “Fart Tax” is likely to really damage farming, in particular the Dairy section,a major contributor to the NZ economy and one of, if not the biggest export earner.Taken together with “Three Waters” which is in effect to nationalise all water and sewage facilities without compensation and place them in the hands of an unaccountable entity, New Zealanders have had enough.
Good to see Alfred E. Neuman has managed to find new work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hipkins