The UPI headline reads, “New Zealand’s conservative National Party trounces Labor; Luxon will be new PM.” What does it mean? The years of abuse by the political Left in NZ have taken a toll, and just enough voters would like a change in direction.
For how long? Well, voters are a lot like bees, Pooh Bear. You can never tell. But New Zealand’s progressive Labor government was famous for not letting the so-called pandemic crisis go to waste. Their earlier gun-grabbing went so well that they paired their Western-style democracy up with a bit of despotism and took that for a spin on the dance floor.
I speak often about political yahoos scratching their totalitarian itch. New Zealand’s elites got zealous and broke it open, bleeding restrictions upon everyone. They even used Santa to get kids to mask up and line up for COVID jabs. Let’s see if you were naughty or once – papers, please. (Why does she sound like Sir Alec Guinness in “Hitler: The Last Ten Days”?)
It was ugly and unpleasant and evidence that the Left is not about helping the disadvantaged. It is about using them to strangle liberty. And just enough voters took notice.
Oct. 14 (UPI) — New Zealand’s conservative National Party soundly defeated the ruling Labor Party in elections held Saturday, paving the way for Christopher Luxon to replace Chris Hipkins as prime minister.
Hipkins conceded defeat after results came in showing the National Party scoring historic gains even across some of the most reliable of Labor districts in the country.
With 99% of the vote counted, the National Party had garnered 39% of the vote, while Labor managed only 27% after getting 50% in the previous election. The Green Party, meanwhile, nabbed 11% and the small-government, libertarian ACT Party collected 9%. The National Party will forge a with the ACT Party, which between them total 61 seats, the barest possible margin to govern in New Zealand.
Lessons learned on the Left. Not a damn one.
“The result tonight is not one that any of us wanted. But I want you to be proud of what we achieved over the last six years, because despite governing through some of the biggest challenges our country has ever faced, we kept New Zealand moving forward,” Hipkins said in his concession speech.
If you are not familiar with Hipkins, he’s the jackass who promised the government would look for those (as in hunt down) who were not vaccinated (to jab them) and then, later – with what passes for a straight face – insisted there was no compulsory COVID vaccination.
And he’s proud of what they achieved. Which means he’d do it again.
HT | Legal Insurrection
