When Tony Abbott created a dame – sadly, the execrable Quentin Bryce – he got fired. When the B…. across the Ditch was made one, those who loathe Abbott were in raptures. Funny old world.
Jacindarella’s rewards for services to wokedom and Covid totalitarianism continue apace. There was the gig with Prince William’s charity. The Women’s Weekly gushed:
The beloved English royal and the admired New Zealand leader have joined forces on a project that is sure to do good for the world.
https://www.nowtolove.com.au/royals/british-royal-family/jacinda-ardern-prince-william-77285
This level of sycophancy gives hagiography a bad name. Then there are Ardern’s two fellowships at Harvard.
As the Harvard the Kennedy School Dean’s announcement read:
“Jacinda Ardern showed the world strong and empathetic political leadership,” Elmendorf said. “She earned respect far beyond the shores of her country, and she will bring important insights for our students and will generate vital conversations about the public policy choices facing leaders at all levels.”
The Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Program, established with support from Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, provides opportunities for high-profile leaders who are transitioning from public service roles to spend time in residence at Harvard Kennedy School. The Hauser Leaders Program, which launched with support from Rita and Gustave Hauser and is based in the School’s Center for Public Leadership, brings several high-profile leaders from public, private, and nonprofit organizations to campus each semester to engage with students and faculty on building skills in principled leadership.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/announcements/jacinda-ardern-appointed-hks-fellowship
Principled leadership? Of course, the Kennedy School also has as a Senior Fellow … Kevin Rudd. They clearly have a thing for over-promoted, soiled ex-leaders. Rudd is most famous for being rejected, in turn, by his own Party and by the electors of Australia.
And now Jacindarella has the big gong. And with the current mob having the attention span of gnats – Anthony Downs’ issue attention cycle is getting so short that soon the twenties generation will have forgotten what happened in the world the day before yesterday – Jacinda won’t have to worry that people will remember her for deserting the sinking ship that is the New Zealand Labor Party at the time she decamped to secular sainthood.
Of course, there is no surprise that the current King and the next one will have wanted to mark Jacinda’s own “reign”. They are both woke and both climate nutters. They are both World Economic Forum gentlemen. Prince William interviewed David Attenborough at Davos in 2019. King Charles salivates at the very mention of the place. Ardern is a graduate of the WEF’s Global Leaders Program, a school for emerging global fascists (like the Boy Prince in Canada, and the aforementioned Rudd) that allows Klaus Schwab to “penetrate zee cabinets”.. So, a natural alliance between Jacinda and the current Royals.
By the way, here is what the WEF says about Ardern:
Bachelor’s in Professional Communication, University of Waikato. Former Adviser, Office of then New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark; then worked in London for the British Cabinet Office. Also volunteered at a soup kitchen in New York. 2008, entered New Zealand’s Parliament at the age of 26; 2017, became the youngest-ever leader of the Labour Party. Only two months after assuming the leadership, led the party to electoral victory and was sworn in as Prime Minister heading a three-party government involving the New Zealand First Party and the Greens. Currently the youngest woman elected head of government in the world and only the second elected head of government to have had a baby while in office. Also holds the roles of Minister for National Security and Intelligence, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, and Minister for Child Poverty Reduction.
https://www.weforum.org/people/jacinda-ardern
And here is what the WEF says about Rudd:
2007-10 and 2013, Prime Minister of Australia; led Australia's response during the Global Financial Crisis where Australia was the only major advanced economy not to go into recession; 2008, delivered the formal National Apology to Indigenous Australians as first parliamentary act; ratified the Kyoto Protocol and introduced an Australian Mandatory Renewable Energy target of 20% by 2020. 2010-12, Foreign Minister of Australia. As Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, also oversaw the doubling of Australian foreign aid over five years, making Australia the seventh largest aid donor in the world. Recognized as one of the founders of the G20 as the premier global economic decision-making institution. Co-Author, Resilient People, Resilient Planet, the report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability (2012). Deeply engaged in the questions of Australia's strategic and economic future in Asia, aboriginal reconciliation, the teaching of Asian languages, homelessness and organ donation.
https://www.weforum.org/people/kevin-rudd
No need for much further comment here on these fantasy-encomia. Though mentioning Ardern’s no doubt sterling work in the New York soup kitchen was a nice touch. The globalists are just one big happy, interconnected family.
Much has been made of Ardern’s republicanism and the suggested hypocrisy of her acceptance of a royal honour. She neatly sidestepped that one by expressing her reluctance to accept the gong in terms, not of republicanism, but because of her humility in relation to all those other Kiwis who shared her … whatever she did. Oh, that’s right. She was empathetic towards victims of an awful mass shooting in Christchurch. She put on a scarf in deference to Muslims and hugged people. That got her an outsized portrait on a silo in Brunswick (Melbourne, of course).
https://www.australiansiloarttrail.com/brunswick
Then we had her efforts during the Covid panic. And didn’t the Kiwi Government panic. They had every form of whacko madness under the sun, just like everywhere else, only more so. This is, of course, a country whose customs officials totally flip out of they find a stray Aussie huntsman in camping equipment at Auckland Airport. So, keeping the island kingdom virus free became a heroic act. And the empathetic PM was up for the challenge. In this she resembled Mark McGowan, yet another Covid political departee, who was equally determined to defeat “the virus”. There must be something about politicians in isolated places that make them do a King Canute. Hence, they had the closed borders, lockdowns, the vaccine mandates, the narrative, the censorship, the maskism.
Readers will, no doubt, remember Ardern’s infamous admonition of those ho “get their news” from anyone other than “The Government”.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/government-is-not-the-divine-source-of-truth/
Now she is taking her lockdownism to the world, and seeking to have it applied to climate change, inevitably another of her obsessions. She is at the forefront of the fifteen minute cities movement and will go along with anything that seeks to drive us all back to the Stone Age by killing the fossil fuel economy. Not to mention her championing the use global censorship to shut down dissidents.
She recently told the United Nations as much, as Rita Panahi notes:
Sky News host Rita Panahi says it’s “little wonder” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the UN General Assembly was described as “disturbing, dystopian and dangerous”. “Just listen to this Orwellian nonsense from the fake queen of empathy,” Ms Panahi said. “Ardern wants to control the information you have access to. “She looks at the internet as a weapon of war that requires the same level of action and activity as the old weapons of war.”
It is all very chilling. Both Ardern’s global program and the fact that so many “world leaders” embrace her peculiar brand of “empathy”. There are only so many times one can say “the world has gone mad”.
Finally, it is funny how failed female political leaders – and there are many – simply bounce along to their next gig(s) upon exiting public office. The former VicPol Commissioner, Christine Nixon – the one who was having her hair done during the 2009 fatal bushfires – also now teaches leadership courses.
No, there is, indeed, nothing like a Dame. With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Paul Collits
9 June 2023
I'm sure that The Mouth From The South will use her natural endowment to suck up to all and sundry around the globe.
Maybe she should undertake a peace mission to Russia so she can suck up to Vlad the Putrid. What a dynamic duo that would be.
It is a temptation to treat all this garbage from the garbage people mentioned in this post as a bit of a joke. Until one remembers what they cause - the suffering of the innocent.
This socio path displays so much hubris.