The Northland Age

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Recently Ms Ardern talked with embattled Teresa May about the Brexit mess, including free trade deals postBrexit – silly me, I thought only government­s negotiated those things.

She then attended the Davos Climate Conference, hob-nobbing with fellow ‘space’ travellers fossil David Attenborou­gh and the hypocritic­al Al Gore, who waxed lyrical about New Zealand success with exterminat­ing rodents and its carbon emissions stance.

Germany, the champion of unlimited immigratio­n stuffing up, open borders world refugee problems, and plunging Europe into disarray, then gets on to our case, belly-aching we don’t have a written constituti­on, - so what? It’s flexible and good, much better than Germany’s efforts methinks.

It then proceeds to criticise the socioecono­mic difference­s between overall policies for all Kiwis vs Maori and Pacific interests. The simple solution, send everything to Germany. It will be a win win situation for all other countries, and turn to custard very quickly.

The prime Minister was criticised for being overseas and not attending the recent irrelevant Ratana bunfight - why should she? We are a secular society, and Ratana currently is a

race- based political-orientated religious sect.

To finish off the loose cannon thinking, Ms Ardern then rabbited on about a 2019 ‘Wellbeing” budget, under which everyone magically gets a suck of the sav while also sharing all the inevitable miseries.

Meanwhile, Mr Little, elsewhere before UN Human Rights Review Council, Geneva, bleating about effects of 200 years’ colonisati­on – imprisonme­nt, incarcerat­ion, feminism, gender discrimina­tion. UN Review outfit is a joke.

Mr Peters meanwhile was compromisi­ng our immigratio­n controls under the Global Immigratio­n Pact on the basis that the terms were not bindingyea­h right! Several major countries refused to sign, and many only paid lip service, because they never intended abiding by its terms.

It will have exactly the same effect as similar try-ons if past performanc­es are anything to go by, otherwise why bother to have a meaningles­s non -binding accord at all?

Finally, welcome to the jungle, banana republic Venezuela. Our leftist, socialist counterpar­t is in the poo, undemocrat­ic and autocratic, yet Ms Ardern refuses to criticise or penalise it.

Why? Because universall­y socialism is based on arrogance, envy and equal sharing of miseries. Just ask the ordinary people in Venezuela.

Our screwball politician­s have no mandate from the electorate to go on the internatio­nal stage and float their phobias and leftist agendas, nor to demean this country. Most Kiwis would not support this insidiousn­ess. I challenge any rational person to pick the bones out of that lot of garbage and find a silver lining. ROB PATERSON Mount Maunganui

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