The horse’s arse has had her legacy trashed.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s legacy smoking policy is in tatters, with the country’s parliament this week formally repealing the generational smoking ban.
Previously planned to take effect from July, New Zealand’s proposed smoking ban would have given it the toughest anti-tobacco rules in the world by banning sales of tobacco to people born after January 1st 2009 and reducing the number of tobacco retailers by more than 90%.
Well, it made me smile. This dreadful harridan was a disgrace during the covid debacle and this nasty piece of legislation pretty much summed up her authoritarian mindset, so seeing it repealed is gorgeous.
New Zealand’s planned ban was the inspiration for Rishi Sunak’s proposed generational smoking ban, and the U-turn means the UK is the only country in the world now looking to pursue a generational prohibition policy on tobacco.
It says something when you use that creature as inspiration. I wonder how long before it collapses here?
Nice to see but they have to undo more of her dictats before NZ becomes an attractive country again – same goes for Canada and the cuck they have in charge there.
It was a relief when the election results were published. I was not really convinced that National had the guts to really take on the left establishment but Luxon has Winston Peters and David Seymour to keep holding his feet to the flames.
They seem to be upsetting all the right people so they seem to be on the right lines.
When you consider that no government anywhere has yet managed to really control the supply of drugs,it makes you wonder how they thought they could control the supply of tobacco.
The USA ran the prohibition experiment with alcohol as the prohibited drug in the 1920s. It failed. Why governments continue running the experiment on other drugs is beyond me.
See also price controls. A disaster every time they are tried but every so often a government will come along that gives it another go.
It’s because all politicians think they are brilliant and so the previous go was doomed to fail because it wasn’t them. They have different ideas and these will work.
Politicians are just actors. They sell themselves every few years and they then act like they know what they are doing and we the sheeple vote for them every time.