indyvidual,

Sounds like I've lost my principles?

Really?

How would you know - you don't have any.

Foxy,

In labelling all those that don't support Jacinda as non-human (a majority of New Zealand) you are suffering from the same hubris and arrogance that Hilary Clinton did before being defeated by Trump.

In early 2020 before Covid Labour after a series of cock ups were well on the way to being a one-term government. The lockdowns in the pandemic boosted Labour's popularity giving the incumbent government a landslide. Labour took this as a mandate to implement a slew of unpopular legislation and their popularity plummeted to the point where not even saint Jacinda could save them. Chris Hipkins (Mr lockdown) has taken up the poison chalice in the hope that he can reverse Labour's dismal polling.

shadowminister,

So how did NZ go in the pandemic?

Give us a link please.

shadowminister,

Jacinta Adhern has shown her human qualities as PM
and deserves recognition for that. Her kindness is
but one of her legacies which is a rare quality for
a politician to have and has been appreciated not only
by New Zealanders by internationally as well.

Also New Zealand's Covid strategy was one of the world's
most successful. It was successful in limiting the spread
and impact of the virus.

Foxy,

Jacinda does have some admirable qualities I won't dispute that, and her reaction to covid won her the 2020 election. However, she continued strict anti covid measures while the rest of the world was opening up and the vaccine mandate that she'd promised she would never do led to the firing of hundreds of nurses and teachers and made it extremely difficult and expensive for even Kiwi's to return to the country. This led to hundreds of bankruptcies and economic hardship that cost her most of the support she'd earlier won.

This coupled with new taxes on landlords, income tax, farm vehicles, the 3 Waters legislation, carbon tax on farmers etc since 2020 along with a series of blunders have led to a collapse in Labour's polling and with NZ's food inflation at 11% the start of a recession and a drop in real wages Labour's prospects at the Oct 2023 election looks grim.

shadowminister,

I think that she was a remarkable leader and had
admirable qualities including now - knowing when
to go. I wish her well.