Roger Watson
I am not often right and, once again, I was wrong. I genuinely thought we had heard the last of the toothy tyrant Jacinda Ardern when she suddenly resigned as New Zealand Prime Minister with not enough fuel “left in the tank.” I thought that her dreadful management of the Covid-19 situation in New Zealand had finally caught up with her and that she had been forced out. Unfortunately, someone seems to have put some fuel back in her tank and she has been elevated to Dame Jacinda Ardern to coincide with King Charles’ forthcoming birthday.
That the population of her beleaguered country had had enough of her, we can be sure. Prolonged and harsh lockdown, wearing masks out of doors, exhortations to spy on neighbours, shooting stray pets, vaccine mandates and claiming that her government was the only source of accurate information about Covid-19 is not the kind of stuff to endear a population towards you. Not unless that population are all mindless zombies. I’ve been to New Zealand, and they most certainly are not. Towards the end of her ridiculous Covid-19 tyranny, there were significant protests which even filtered through the mainstream media firewall to our newspapers in the UK.
With friends and family who have been honoured, a Dame amongst them, I firmly believe they have been rewarded for extraordinary achievements and very had work. For that reason, I have always been unwilling to disparage the honours lists, despite the inclusion of some notable careerists, assorted brown nosers and perverts (Saville and Harris, for example). These tend to be in the minority and their misdeeds, whether known at the time by those in power, generally only come to light afterwards.
With the honouring of Jacinda Ardern, a unique turn has been taken. This is the blatant honouring of someone whose ‘tyrant’ title is entirely appropriate and was plain for all to see in advance. She has, essentially, terrorised over 5 million people for the best part of three years; imposed the lunacy of ‘zero carbon’ policies on her country, supported abortion—wrong at any stage of gestation—right up to the point of birth (aka infanticide) and did nothing for either the economy or the failing infrastructure of New Zealand.
CNN, reporting on the damehood, said that it was for leading the country through “some of the greatest challenges” faced by New Zealand. One of these was the 2019 terrorist attacks where one unhappy Australian decided to help New Zealand sort out it problems by shooting 49 people in a mosque. John F Kennedy, when asked how he had earned his war hero status said: “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.” Surely, Ardern could say the same; she just happened to be in power when the incident happened. And her solution at that time? She put the country into lockdown. See the pattern?
In an outburst of faux humility, Ardern said of receiving the damehood: “I was in two minds about accepting this acknowledgment,” she said: “So many of the things we went through as a nation over the last five years were about all of us rather than one individual.” I doubt she was in two minds about accepting the damehood, but she was spot on when she said that the past few years were about all New Zealanders; she had been responsible for most of the problems imposed on them.
What we are seeing, writ large, is the ‘wages of sin’, the reward for being a loyal graduate of the WEF Young Global Leaders programme. The award is conferred by none other than another WEF devotee and bestie of Klaus Schwab, our own King Charles III. I was clearly wrong to think that Ardern would disappear in shame in iniquity and, for that reason, have adjusted my expectations. Having just checked The Gazette to see if it is possible—and it is—I predict that ‘Sir’ Justin Trudeau will soon be joining her on the list of those honoured for services rendered.
Roger Watson is a retired academic nurse who lives in the UK.
He is currently engaged in a range of professional consultancies in the UK, Europe and China. He writes regularly for several outlets including The Daily Sceptic, The European Conservative, Country Squire Magazine and The New Conservative.
