The deviousness of politicians and the complete lack of trust people have in them are not new. The Ipsos Veracity Index lists the five least-trusted professions as politicians, advertising executives, government ministers, estate agents and journalists – probably unfair to estate agents. Moreover, there is now little doubt that our present Prime Minister of New Zealand, trading on what has been described as his choirboy appearance, is as slippery as a snake, possibly even more damaging to our country than his predecessor.

The not-so-exhausted-after-all Jacinda Ardern has already assumed two new controversial roles, including overseeing ‘online extremism’, reporting back directly to her long-time buddy, Chris Hipkins. The opportunities here to continue pushing for more and more restrictions on free speech – particularly given the left’s push to demonise as alt-right all raising legitimate concerns about the sabotaging of our former democracy – will doubtless prove irresistible. She has also graciously agreed to join the board of trustees for the Earthshot Prize, the charity begun by Britain’s Prince William to help provide environmental solutions to the non-existent problem of CO2 emissions. It is a prime example of why members of this royal family, as well as gullible celebrities, should guard against being propagandised by ideologues, or those with a vested interest in the financial advantages of bandwagoning on fashionable issues.

Ardern’s intent has apparently been to destroy our democracy by substituting the neo-tribal rule of powerful hierarchies who have even a smidgen of Maori ancestry – now immensely wealthy as a result of ongoing taxpayer handouts. Her aim was co-governance – supposedly joint rule by a racially obsessed minority of part-Maori, centered on her government’s blatant lying about a ‘partnership’ established between the Crown and all Maoris at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi – which is patently absurd. There never was a cohesive nation of Maori people, only well-dispersed, constantly warring tribal groupings. Moreover, Article III of the treaty made plain that all New Zealanders had equal rights and responsibilities – absolutely essential for any democracy to survive.

But what happens when a country’s leader is apparently not at all keen for her country to survive as a democracy? Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins and deputy Labour leader Grant Robertson were a long time cadre of committed socialists. More than an affinity for socialism was revealed by her apparent determination to destroy our social stability by promoting racial diviseness and an apartheid system of government, with today’s tribal corporations able to dominate all other New Zealanders in relation to control and decision-making. This is in conjunction with her blithe ignoring of polls overwhelmingly objecting to her renaming this country Aotearoa, and substituting incomprehensible names in a new, fake-Maori language for all our government departments and institutions, so that most New Zealanders now don’t have a clue what these all stand for.

Inevitably, Ardern’s push to force co-governance on this country, and the attack waged against farmers using the canard of a climate emergency, had New Zealanders at last smelling a large and decaying rat. Her dive in the polls seemingly had her deciding to abandon her sinking ship before the coming October election. Chris Hipkins, formerly arm in arm with Ardern in all her damaging initiatives, and far from reluctant to take the lead in implementing the worst of them, has adroitly slithered over to promise to abandon such unpopular moves, knowing that Labour’s chances of winning the next election were toast.

We have now been promised ‘bread and butter’ policies only. Our present Prime Minister has undertaken to ditch all the deeply divisive policies dear to Ardern in what the media had described as ‘a policy bonfire’, but what the smooth-tongued Hipkins calls ‘a prioritisation’ – code word for not at the moment: wait till we win the election. Interestingly, our left-wing media have tactfully not approached Ardern to see how she feels about her party ostensibly ditching those policies most dear to her; as if word has got out that of course this isn’t going to happen.

However, given the undertaking by Chris Hipkins of a supposed conflagration of Labour’s most unpopular policies, Labour’s ratings shot up, with the party positioned to win a third term. If it does, New Zealand is essentially finished as a democracy. Its recent supposed abandoning of tribal dominance and control of all the country’s water, provided by the Three Waters legislation, does nothing of the sort. It essentially rearranges the deckchairs on the Titanic, conjuring up ten new water entities, overly complicated in structure and still embedding tribal dominance. However, Hipkins has accused those opposing the Three Waters legislation of ‘dog whistle racism’.

Nevertheless, the tide is now turning against this former senior minister with a disastrous record in the Ardern government. As minister of education he was responsible for implementing a radical, anti-colonial, shockingly biased history syllabus in New Zealand schools – with tribal representatives dictating content – while presiding over the collapse of educational standards. His bias against academic achievements and failure to address the collapse of our education standards is paralleled by our extraordinary truancy rates, contributing to rising youth crime and ram-raiding, by youngsters in their early teens. Against all warnings, he destroyed the independence of our polytechnic institutions throughout the country with a disastrous centralisation plan. Fitting his socialist agenda, it has achieved near bankruptcy for the sector, with a loss of $200 million. He reportedly forgot to order, or confused the arrival time for the Covid vaccines, while overseeing the destructive lockdowns, mandates and lottery for quarantine places which kept many New Zealanders out of their own country.

Remarkably evasive in reply to questions he would rather not be asked, this usually adroit politician has made himself ridiculous internationally by not being able to define what a woman is. His stammering reply to an interviewer was that the question had come out of left field, invoking, ‘Well, biology, sex, gender…’ before tailing off into, ‘I wasn’t expecting that question, so it’s not something that I’ve, you know, formulated, pre-formulated an answer… but in terms of gender identity, I think people define their gender for themselves.’

His reply went around the world, making him an international laughing stock, with New Zealanders pointing out how ironic it is that Chris Hipkins doesn’t even know what a woman is – even though he married one.