New Zealand: Voters give Jacinta Ardern’s Labor Party a big kick
Even in distant New Zealand, practically the antipodes, politics is changing and the parties that supported the most foolish policies against "Climate Change" are being harshly punished. We remember that the Labor Party of former Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern had shown itself as extremist both in its policies of isolation and mandatory vaccination in the Covid period, and in its extremist and frankly stupid application of policies against CO2, going so far as to create the "T assa on the flatulence ” of cows.
Ardern was replaced by Chip Hipkins as prime minister in January, but campaigned alongside Labour. The results are visible.
So, after years of bad politics, the election is here and they're sending Labor home. Here are the data after counting 90% of the votes
Labor's government is literally halved. The national party gains 14%; but two other parties that have the rejection of Labor policies in their DNA are also growing, namely ACT and NZ First. Practically the next majority has already been written and will be liberal and vaguely nationalist centre-right. The Greens also enter parliament and gain strength over the rubble of Labour.
Thus ends, with very little glory, one of the worst experiences of government in the Western world, from the point of view of personal freedoms. Furthermore, the farmers had pledged to vote for anyone, even if they were against government policies. At the same time, ACT and NZ First are two parties that put personal freedoms and private enterprise at the center of politics, the exact opposite of what has been done so far.
At least in New Zealand, a country of less than five million inhabitants, they have the courage to change and defend their freedom…
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