The following is from Kiwi Dan Wootton from British paper Mailonline. Dan thinks his fellow NZ’ers will dub him a traitor. I call him a bloody legend and a hero!
Last week a fed-up businessman placed an advertisement in New Zealand’s biggest news magazine.
Under the headline, ‘The following countries do not ban their own citizens from returning to their home country,’ it listed a host of nations as diverse as Afghanistan, China, Australia, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US.
Under another headline, ‘The following countries effectively ban their own citizens from returning to their home country,’ it listed just one: New Zealand.
It was a rare public riposte to the country’s ‘Be Kind’ superwoke-but-authoritarian Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern whose behaviour becomes crueller and more twisted by the day as she continues on an increasingly desperate quest to keep my homeland a Zero Covid hermit kingdom, just as the highly transmissible Omicron variant begins to spread in the community.
Many Kiwis have become so brainwashed by Ardern’s incessant spin – swallowed whole by a compliant liberal media – that they reacted with a mere shrug when her government at the weekend revealed citizens who are household contacts of anyone who tests positive for Covid will have to self-isolate for a whopping 24 days as part of her ‘stamp it out’ policy approach…READ MORE (lengthy article and worth your time): DAN WOOTTON on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s crazy Covid-zero policy | Daily Mail Online
I think if Dan asked around he’d find a surprising number of Kiwis who are not under Ardern’s spell. Many of us will soon be taking to the streets again to protest! Martin