How New Zealand Fell Out of Love With Jacinda Ardern
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2023
- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was elected in 2017 promising to govern with kindness. She became a global favorite, and a beacon for a new kind of compassionate leadership. But over time her popularity at home slid downward, and in January she abruptly quit.
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your channel was complicit in the tyranny and non-science science. Shame on Vice
well. shes a monster. _JC
We never loved her. The west just think we do because of headlines
The truth is NZ is still in love with Jacinda. One of the best leaders we have ever had. This video is a load of contrived BS, put together for the purposes of some right wing agenda.
I’m American, and I’m shocked that politicians in other countries step down when the people don’t want them anymore.
In NZ's election system, quitting at this point in the cycle is kind of the equivalent of saying you won't run for re-election in other systems.
@@takatamiyagawa5688 She was constantly getting abused and harrassed by anti vaxxers, not to mention death threats, had she stayed she would of won again but anti vaxxers would of protested and rioted, she stepped down to avoid the ugliness
@@frenchskuxx well lets stop looking at the extreme haha how about crime rates flying up, tax rates flying up, education went down as did jobs. She was terrible as government.
@@frenchskuxx have you seen the polls? she took the only lifeboat from a sinking ship
dont be mistaken, shes not doing this out of kindness, she taking the only lifeboat on a ship she sunk
Asking a Farmer what he thinks of a Labour leader is a bit like asking a Yorkshire miner what he thought of Margaret Thatcher.
Except Yorkshire miners are poor, working class - NZ farmers are rich, privileged land owners.
Because of we had to leave the country, she destroyed the whole countries economy. The damage have already been done by her. I don't think many who have left NZ would return again.
From giving shelter to people linked with isis to unemployment, crime and homelessness this can't be undone.
@@On_The_Piss and they act like they're the most oppressed class, it's quite pathetic
Why did I read this with Jeremy Clarksons Voice lol
@@MaverickZ007 TONIGHT ON BOTTOM GEAR
Is she the lady that said:'We are the single source of truth'?
yep....
lest we forget - 2 classes of ppl? "yes, it is what it is"
Yes, sadly we now have a split society.
She couldn't tell the truth if came out and bit her on the butt .
@@hamishdalby9692 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She didn't turn down your request because she is shy of the international news media, she turned it down because she was about to be welcomed onto a very significant site in Māoridom and it was entirely inappropriate for you to have been asking to interview her when this was taking place.
Agreed!
how in the hell is that inappropriate of him?
@@mherrj Its like seeing a celebrity eating at a restaurant, then going over and interrupting their dinner to ask for a photo
@@mherrj when someone is in the middle of a very culturally important ritual or ceremony its rude to interrupt them for something like an "interview". i think you can understand it if you picture how annoying the papparazi can be and then extrapolate it to to a situation involving an important social gathering.
@@callanc3925 I think you're actually underselling it by comparing it to a celebrity eating at restaurant. As wrong as that situation is, I'm sure it doesn't compare to the cultural significance of what she was doing.
What I've been telling non-Kiwis who are shocked at Ardern's resignation is that NZ domestic political issues simply don't make the news overseas, so what people know about Jacinda Ardern is basically the highlights reel (being elected, having a baby in office, eliminating covid, etc.) Little is known internationally about the housing crisis, cost of living, or how Labour has struggled to pivot away from lofty issues like co-governance and state media mergers towards the bread-and-butter economic issues that your average person is most concerned about. Her government just hasn't been able to articulate well enough why these issues matter at a time when people are struggling to afford the basic necessities.
She has been an incredible crisis leader and has been willing to make tough decisions where needed. But constant disruption throughout these past six years has made it difficult for her govt. to grasp governing during 'normal times'. The fact is, the transformational politics she promised simply didn't eventuate.
Couldn’t have worded it better myself
As a non-Kiwi, expecting her to fix the housing crisis, which is usually a decades old issue, is maybe having unrealistic expectations - you can end up with a government that is generally worse because you got rid of somebody who cared about you.
@@aliancemd nah. All housing crisis everywhere is easy to solve. A single land Value tax solves this. Especially if paired with universal basic income
@@kightsun for LVTs to be successful you effectively need to eliminate property taxes, so the government isn’t going to be increasing net revenue, pair that with UBI, and you are looking at a massive budget deficit.
“Easy” is a huge, naive overstatement
@@williamjohnson4417 lvt is a property tax. It would replace all taxes. Decrease spending to match income, it really is easy.
As a New Zealander, a couple of interesting observations from this video.
The farming community in New Zealand has a strong level of political power in New Zealand. While the farmer is outraged about how much Wellington 'dictates' what they have to do, the solution for taxing emissions was a considerable watering down of what was proposed two years ago, and not enough to meet New Zealand's climate targets.
Chris Bishop, opposition spokesperson for the National Party, is incredibly hypocritical given, up until the month of the 2017 election when they lost power to Ardern, they refused to acknowledge New Zealand had a housing crisis. The Ardern government hasn't done enough for this crisis, but the National Party should not be allowed to place the blame completely on this government.
Ultimately, her stepping down is the right choice. I think people were tiring of her, but I have also noticed that people are tiring of the Opposition leader. I think New Zealanders will be exhausted and pretty uninspired by the time the October election comes.
I fucking hate farmers. They'll play the victim over anything. If they don't like being dictated to by Wellington, well maybe they shouldn't be flooding our rivers with effluent.
Agreed. Luxon appears to have failed to resonate with most New Zealanders.
Fully agree.
sounds like new zealand needs someone new
A lot of political unwillingness to really push a lot of meaningful policy, as well as hesitance and poor communication over cannabis legalisation and co-governance that got way out of hand once the opposition started fear-mongering about all of it didn't help. Overall a good leader, certainly a whole lot better than the last lot, but definitely lacking in some areas.
A clear parallel could be drawn between Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau up here in Canada. Unaffordable housing, high inflation, identity politics, increased poverty and personal debt and a “green ‘ policy that’s forcing small farms out of business and into the hands of corporate farming.
Similar though there is no way he will resign, being a dictator is in his blood. They are both graduates of Klaus's school of puppetry.
Housing Crisis in New Zealand started well before Ardern it actually started during John Key, Ardern said she would build 100,000 houses during her term and she only built 10,000 (which is a big accomplishment; but don't get elected saying you'll do 100% then just do 10%).
Both are highly ideological in outlook and authoritarian in execution. Both are virtual signallers par excellence and have little depth of character.
Add Sana Marin of Finland and Annalena of Germany to that list.
no one can stop corporate farming, and no one will.
You can admire a political figure without liking them. Never disliked Jacinda myself but I admire that she clocked out when she realised she gave her all to the office. Unlike Berlusconi figures that just won't.go.awaaaaay
You admire her for walking away? After destroying the country…. What a clown take
@@JM-qn3tfdestroying the country? Bro be grateful National wasn’t in power during Covid they would’ve just gave a $100 paknsave voucher and called it a day. Labour doesn’t deserve the hate they get after all they’ve done for the people the rough few years esp during Covid. The financial trouble we’re experiencing is happening everywhere not just NZ.
@@JM-qn3tf would you rather she continue to 'destroy' the country?
@@lyoona8951 I don’t admire her genius
Shes gon thank fk
Never fall in love with a politician or football team. They will just break your heart.
Trust me, I can relate; I’m a lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys here in America.
@@gbb82 It could be worse, ask a Detroit Lions fan.
every once in a while they’ll surprise you..
-Chiefs Fan
@@gbb82 dude whatever happened to the Cowboys?..they not hitting like they used to
Let's also add a cricket team....
As a Kiwi, I found this to be a very Interesting video.
I recently left NZ and have moved to Australia like many people within my age group (20-40). I would say that the housing market was one of the biggest driving factors in my decision, yet I would absolutely be lying if I said this was entirely Labour or Jacinda's fault. We have a national problem that's existed for over a decade, and was worsened by the National government.
We have a tax law that incentivizes individuals to invest in property over every other form of investment. This is not Jacinda's fault. Even if politicians were to start taxing property like they taxed income or other investments, like stocks or bonds, it would likely trigger an economic nightmare for at least a decade, and this is why no-ones willing to tackle the problem.
But without actually tackling the problem head on like we should, we're going to instead lose out on our young adults and innovative thinkers to countries like Australia or abroad. These are often the people that create diverse businesses, innovative businesses, and help to keep NZ economically and socially diverse.
This cycle of 20-40 year olds leaving NZ and returning once they're ready to 'settle down' won't ever stop, until we do something about property.
Jacinda led us through some very severe storms, and while she definitely made mistakes, I think she'll ultimately be remembered as the kind PM we needed at the time where the world felt like it was falling apart. Laying the housing problem at her feet I think is severely incorrect.
I feel like we have a similar housing market problem in Australia but I guess it would be less intense than NZ's problem due to the obvious geographical differences.
@@Lockieez I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy!
A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary.
To compare that to the Netherlands where we also have a huge housing crisis. A average house costs $415294 and the average salary is $41315. You can't even get a mortgage with half the house prices here.
How the hell do you buy a house when you need a mortgage on at least $700000?
Awesome comment! So balanced and fair. I thought the comments here would likely be polarised and negative, but instead I'm very grateful for thoughtful, evidence based and balanced comments. Thank you!
@@Lockieez I have recently moved to Perth from NZ and everybody here talks about how much housing has gone up and how expensive fuel is.
I have just come from $2.50/L gas and $1,000,000 for a 2 bed 1 bath leaky brick house. Everywhere is feeling the inflation of housing but it feels like NZ is front running Aus by a long shot
Jacinda did fail to get a Capital Gains Tax through though after announcing they would be pushing for one. Maybe not her fault, but a failure nonetheless
Most hated prime minister in nz history. Hands down. Anyone who actually lives in NZ knows that.
I think New Zealand is facing issues that a lot of countries are facing - consequences of housing speculation - climate change - global economic issues - cost of living - the aftermath of the covid (not that its really over). All of these issues have no easy solutions and any solution will have losers. I don't envy the politicians who want to be pragmatic and risk their popularity to push policy through to really address these things. People will only look at the top - to pin their hopes but also their anger.
" consequences of housing speculation " The housing issue is more to do with mass immigration actually. The native population is shrinking due to low birth rates so naturally there shouldn't be this demand. There would be no benefit to housing speculation if the population wasn't being blown through the roof by mass immigration.
Climate change? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
The climate is always changing so you better prepare. The problem is that we blame something called C02 that has not been proving to be the cause of it, only that there is a correlation between temperature and C02.
Also we can only eliminate C02 if we start living in caves again. The issue is that we spend trillions trying to eliminate C02 usage instead of spending 1% of it to make us adapt to the change.
Also covid is not causing financial issues. If they would have closed the liquor stores and stopped selling sodas, sugar and fatty foods like Mc donnalds and cookies, they would have saves way more lives and money then with all the chamical injections and lock downs.
Only old and fat people died WITH a positive covid test. Anyone else with a positive test had no problem.
I think that a lot of people start to see this now and therfore Adern lost credibility because she know the facts but tried to hide them by paying huge amount of money to the media.
Jacinda as PM was a joke, she couldn't run a bath! Failed at everything she touched, printed money and spent it lie there was no tomorrow and then when she realised that she had failed she ran off.
@Cha4k lol no. Housing is plentiful, but rents and home prices are high, while wages have remained relatively stagnant.. Thats not an immigration problem.
I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy!
A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary.
And how many can afford to buy in the US?
That's exactly the same in many countries in Europe. Buying a house is for the rich in many places. Also aren't houses extremely expensive in America too? Doesn't America also have a housing crisis? What about the disappearing middle class? These are problems of most developed countries right now, not unique to NZ in any way.
@@garb4gepile420 My country the Netherlands has a housing crisis, but the numbers are very very different. A average salary in the Netherlands is $41330 and the average house price is $415450.
We make more here and the house price is half of that in NZ. On a doctors salary you can't even get a mortgage in NZ. Here you can.
In the US a average salary is at least 50000 dollars. A lot higher. The average house price in the US is $543,600
Around a million is the average! That's incredibly high. Even for western standards
Yep - thanks Jacinda for that! I voted for her - she screwed us all over.
Yes the previous government let the housing market spiral out of control. It ended up like a gold rush. Market now crashing significantly, with 23% drop in the capital in just one year
Indeed, labour has failed to tackle the housing crisis. They deserve criticism for not taking more aggressive action in terms of getting high density housing built.
National however ignored the housing crisis for the 8 years before Jacinda took power. They would be the last people I would trust to address it.
You ain't the only one.
The last National Govt were in power for 10yrs they knew we had a housing problem and did
absolutely nothing about it at least this Govt was making an attempt.
There was no "housing crisis" under national yes home owners rates went up and the market went stale but rentals weren't affected like they are now. And the only thing labour did was make it so much harder to get a rental
Indian and Pakistanis planning to migrate to bring all family member from grand old dad to all siblings to NZ.. but still manage to survive.
@@chriscomics9415 Where have you been living? Rents started hiking and housing became unaffordable right through National's leadership. I bet you've forgotten but it was National who started putting people in motels. The irony was the minister responsible owned 80 plus rental homes!
Her hospital pass to Hipkins , and then subbing herself off was textbook. “OMG they hate me and now the party as well. I’ll give it all to Hipkins and get the hell out of here before it all falls apart. “
With housing/cost-of-living/inflation issues being so rampant across the wealthy parts of the world, I’m finding it harder to blame a party or a single politician for the situation we’re in. It sounds like none of the politicians know what to do about it. Uh oh…
Actually as a politician myself there are ways to handle it but it demands building state or council housing with controlled rent and in order to do that you need better majorities and higher taxes on big companies and capital problem is that when people feel insecure they tend to get more conservative ( as in changes to the brain research has shown) this means that the harder times become the harder it is to push through effective policies.
@@gaelle4328 "progressive" policies make housing more expensive..
@@lukazupie7220 Really depends. Right now, nothing makes housing more expensive than companies that buy/build for rental, so progressive policies that makes it harder for companies to buy up housing and easier for individual would be really good.
Other progressive policies like open borders and mass imigration on the other hand, are extremely damaging.
Most politicians refuse to do something about it. The housing crisis isn't a natural disaster outside of human control. It's deliberately manufactured by mass immigration and incentivised through a perverse taxation system.
Because it is capitalism
Before Arden NewZealand always had a housing problem that nobody talked about!!!! I live in Fiji and family in NZ always complained about high rent and housing issues way before 2017. Great journalism but dig deeper past Ms. Arden
But wasn’t she voted in on the promise her party were supposed to “ fix” it? 🤷♂️
I wanted to move to NZ (I'm from the US) but it would be cheaper to move to Beverly Hills, lol. That was over 10 yr ago. Same story with AU now. Now our housing market looks like yours thanks to speculation by investors.
Yea sure but she promised to fix it then did nothing about it
It's worse now, so is child poverty since she governed.
She campaigned on both of those things
@@thrusta100 you say that as if you feel she had a free run to do so
I lived in Sydney in the 80s and there were many New Zealanders who came to Sydney because they couldn't find a job or afford a place to live. This hasn't changed much.
yeap. I left NZ for Sydney 12 years ago. Nothing has changed
@@denskiz1 How do you know? You don’t even live here 🤣 You were probably one of the supposed “1 million kiwis” trying to get home during the pandemic because other countries made such a balls up of their pandemic responses 🤣
Exactly so many kiwis left that country in droves to Australia so what has any NZ PM done to change that....nothing
Pretty much, NZ is beautiful, I wouldnt have left if the oppotunities were soo little, Australia was much easier, no offense to Australians, but the most mediocre Kiwi has better work ethic and education than the average Australian. It was very easy to land a job in my field and buy a house, I felt like a big fish in a little pond here, compared to NZ where only the big fish got the opportunities, I felt so insignificant
@@ichinesanhow is Australia a little pond?
The premise of this video is weird because Ardern was still ahead in the polls when it came to the preferred Prime Minister, so her personal ratings were actually pretty good, whereas the issue was more with how Labour in general were doing poorly and have been trailing the Nationals for the past year.
The whole country hates her
She wasn't leading in the polls her rating dropped below twenty before the door kicked her in the butt.
It's typically unusual for an incumbent PM to be trailing an Opp Leader in the preferred PM stakes. There seems to be a psychological barrier in the electorate around imagining the Opp Leader as PM. The polls for the parties are generally a better barometer for the popularity of a govt/PM.
polls are always manipulated - just like the msm
And? She thought she was going to lose, which is why she left. You are one idiot.
Ardern was hated because most people felt she was a foul human being, there was no correlation with her being a woman.
As someone in th States, I greatly appreciate the insightful comments left on this video from a lot of New Zealanders.
A wealth of important context, which is almost totally absent from this rather shallow coverage.
VICE used to have some good reporting, but it is pretty simplistic & superficial these days. A sad decline. What a shame.
As a Kiwi I agree that it was a one-sided assessment of her local achievements. You would think that the great majority of the population wanted her gone. It didn't seem like that to me. Interviewing a farmer who said she led the worst government in 40 years is just bizarre. The serious pollution in our waterways from not fencing off our waterways from cattle was something that obviously needed to happen, as does doing something about reducing the methane production of cows. To be a sustainable industry money needs to be invested and some farmers did not want to change. Many have. The Labour government did a number of initiatives for poverty and mental health that the opposition parties vigorously opposed at the time, like lifting the minimum wage significantly. Overall a surprising lack of balanced reporting. But she is a visionary and an idealist, and one of the most disciplined politicians we have had, and the new Prime Minister is someone who gets things done, much more pragmatic and much more goofy and likeable. It's likely Labour will win the next election although the floods in the North Island response will be important.
@@gjcoop5625 Thank you for that information. Deeply appreciated.
@@gjcoop5625 Do you still feel it's likely now lol
@@grandmundi7107 No. It's still possible that Labour wins, but Hipkin's over-exposure as Health Minister during the Covid days is hurting him. He has been blamed for high interest rates for mortgages and the cost of petrol and food. The National Party will give themselves an unnecessary tax cut and give a lot of money to rental property owners, that will lead to higher house prices. And cut services. Grim times for those not so well off, but great for those who can afford overseas holidays and buying a beach house.
@@gjcoop5625 National did a number game - there are many more mid-income earners than low income earners, so it deliberately designed the tax cut to give the most amount to those. So yeah, it's harder to attack, because the real rich don't even get the most out of it, and the foreign buyer tax is too complicated to make much difference anyway.
Lack of affordable housing is a problem that is created over decades and cannot be resolved in a few years for obvious reasons - policy takes time, rezoning takes time, construction takes time. Like most economic policies, the results only become obvious years later when there's someone else in power to take the credit. Also, providing affordable housing affects the supply side, whereas the increase in demand for the housing is a demand-side problem.
LOL
This is so fucking funny because I'm half way around the world in Ireland trying to explain this very same problem we have with our housing crisis.
People can't wrap their head around the fact it is a supply and demand issue. Not just a supply problem.
Canada new policy with oligarch buyers of real estate may help?
The only way you are getting affordable housing is when private property and landlords are abolished. Until then you can keep begging for affordable housing, it ain't coming under capitalism.
Yes but we in NZ are approaching our second decade of acute housing crisis. People's patience only stretches so far
@@Freelythoughtful Exact same here. Even during a housing bust, the supply was limited.
After watching all the political leaders debates, the country is only going in one direction - down. The question is, who will ruin the country the least... Both Labour and National have proven themselves to be useless.
The number one thing that makes me upset is jacinda adren promises things then completely failed let's end homeless and fix the housing crisis then she doubled the refugee quota to 1500 a year while the government is spending one million a day on emergency housing that's 365 million dollars a year new Zealand has gone backwards not forwards
As a kiwi I would like to point out a few things
1. National ignored and underplayed alot of issue that New Zealand had between 2008-2017 and Labour recognised a lot of the issues. E.g If you lived in a car, garage or tent then according to National you weren’t homeless or in poverty.
2. Between 2017-2020 she was in coalition with New Zealand First (NZF) who brought a lot of experience to the table and a lot of labours achievements between 2020-2023 were NZF policies that were implemented. They were successful because they were realistic (defence replacements, provincial growth funding, foreign affairs reset ect)
3. Motels were used due to the COVID crisis and the border closure. Tourism was gutted and lots of tourist heavy towns were teething on bankruptcy and housing homeless people in motels was essentially a bailout of the tourism industry in all but name.
4. Internationally - she is loved. She’s been compared to Obama - loved overseas, disliked at home.
5. A really good article from VUW talked about the hatred that she went through and discussed that Jacinda was THE minister of ministers - she was front and centre for everything and when you make yourself the magnet for positivity and praise, you also, like it or not, intentionally or unintentionally, make yourself the magnet for hatred even if you move away from the podium and push another minister up there when things take a turn.
6. Between 2017-2020 she had her coalition partner and the Greens in a supply and confidence agreement who she could level blame on whenever something got put on hold or stopped (like capital gains tax) so when she won a outright majority in 2020 - lots of people expected big things to happen because she no longer had a coalition partner or supply and confidence partner to run things by or negotiate with. A lot of the things that were “stopped” due to “disagreements with our coalition partner” weren’t implemented and still haven’t been.
7. Recent policies in New Zealand - such as Three Waters - have been heavily criticised due to them being mandatory and the decision to make them mandatory was made BEFORE consultation was done - in other words - this is what’s going to happen, we’ve already made the choice, it’s not going to change, but we want to hear your thoughts. That type of attitude INSTANTLY makes your opponents think that the only way to be heard is to become a agitator.
This was very well written and informative thank you
Don’t agree and comparing her to Obama not a good move he destroyed the US economy
good analysis, also during covid Jacinda secretly enacted the abortion stuff....
Please shill more
Well said.
No politician can survive the unrealistically rabid expectations of the voters, too many compromises have to be done between the interests of those came before and those that will come later. At the end of the day we get the leaders that best represent both our best and worst aspects.
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Yeah.. This is totally the voters’ fault. 😂
While that is true not only did she fail at a few things literally every domestic policy she was elected on she never came close to achieving and at the end of the day that’s why she is gone. The amount of money the government has wasted in the last 6 years was unsustainable
She was far left and incompetent . And left quite a mess.
I left NZ in the late 90's. Although I had always been a good earner, it had become impossible for a single person to buy even the most modest of houses. What ten years before sold for 50,000 NZD was now up for sale at 200,000 NZD. There was no accounting for it, apart from pure greed on the part of property speculators but inflation was starting to rear it's ugly head already. Nowadays, people find it hard to feed their families. Nobody slept in their cars in the 90's. There simply weren't homeless people. Renting wasn't difficult and the welfare system wasn't the hateful mess it is now. Now as I look at the state of affairs in that country, I'm satisfied that my decision to leave permanently was the right one. I doubt that the mess is all Adhern's fault, as the rot set in 20 years ago, but she didn't deliver on any of her promises. All talk and no substance.
Where did you end up moving too?
When a country is accepting immigrants - rule of thumb is NEVER SELL A HOUSE IN A BIG CITY
This is basically Australia atm.
@@saramshagorkhali101 This is Canada as well !! Canada accepted 450k immigrants this year to give you a perspective, and Toronto housing market exploded in last 10 years.
Where did you go then
Good to cover this. Her perception domestically and internationally were poles apart. Not many people see inside New Zealand or hear what she did.
So basically, her fall resembles that of any politician who made promises that couldn't be kept, whether through their own doing or by external forces.
Which is basically every politician.
i wonder how long it'll be before this trend of heads of state stepping down before their term is up spreads to the usa. i think the last president we had step down was nixon.
@@vanessa_lmao8219 so basically any political leader in any given time period
That's not fully what happened here. It's not that she wasn't quite able to live up to her promises. It was that people here were absolutely sick of the ego-serving spin-doctoring modus operandi of her government. It wasn't just a little shortfall, it was an almost complete contradiction of what they say versus what they do. There was that unsettling feeling that it was always about her, her image, and the party's image first, and the people a distant second. She allowed & played into this narrative of her being "compassionate", while at the same time following her personally stated goal of passing laws to allow the brutal sadistic killing of as many babies as possible - some of the most extreme laws in the world (being allowed to kill them right up to the second before they are born, being allowed to kill them based on preference for gender, or any minor deformity or perceived disability - basically eugenics) and Jacinda personally voting against the babies receiving anesthetic before they are brutally ripped apart alive. Tens of thousands of them. Then she says the COVID lockdown is "to save lives". She could have saved tens of thousands of lives at no cost, by not pushing to genocide babies. She wouldn't want these horrible things done to herself or anyone she cares about. So she knows it's wrong. That's the opposite of compassionate. That's narcissistic / sociopathic. (Caring only about oneself and gladly causing harm and pain to others)
Jacinda didn't have the ability to run the country from the start!
That had to be the most topical "report" I've ever seen from Vice. Why were problems with the housing market unaddressed or exacerbated? Why were there four to five times as many families living in cars? These are the actual reasons for criticism of her policies. What exactly did she do for foreign policy that was unique to her? What part of foreign policy did she improve that another leader could not? These are reasons that would explain why she has supporters. Basically, this video was just a topical summary of the fact that Mary Poppins is stepping down
lots of new zealanders are lazy and have too much rights. that is why their homeless, depending on their kind government entirely like a parasite
Spot on ! But this is Vice News, you cannot expect actual reporting.
Reason why theres a housing crisis is because alot of foreign investors have bought a majority of NZs assets including wealthy people who have emigrated, especially on the south island. Reason being is because NZ is one of the safest places to live if there were to be a WW3 due to having no physical borders and being isolated from most surrounding countries.
@@overlandecuador4872 blanket judgement
These homeless crisis is west is war on white people.. they invite rich immigrants, refugees in large numbers without building new housing infrastructure..
We all know how this ends....
The fascinating thing about this report is that no one articulated a single policy that they disagreed with besides the emissions tax (arguably a necessity if we're planning on living on planet earth). The idea that citizens care more about perception than reality is slightly terrifying.
Emissions taxes directly threaten a farmer's livelihood, so it is unsurprising that it would be the number one issue for a dairy farmer. The reporter doesn't appear to be digging very hard for information, and getting people in NZ to talk about the most controversial policies publicly is very difficult. Crime, COVID, pushes for censorship, media funded directly by government, special funding and governing power being given to Maori, policies that have caused inflation... there are plenty of issues that have contributed to the downfall of Labour. But of course a big part of the political game is marketing -- and being the face of "compassion" during a series of crises was a great marketing opportunity. Marketing is about perception rather than policy; and that worked to Ardern's advantage for a long time, until many people started to figure out how disingenuous that image was.
It was like a bad smell that permeated through some of the population.... people got on an indignant bandwagon and righteously ran with it.. It was an awful time in our history.. not because of the govt but how impatient people got over covid. Yes alot of things didn't get achieved. most of the time and money was spent on keeping everyone safe from sickness.. Oh and giving things to Māori.. apparently reparations are NOT okay with some folks. Jacinda was fully abused and lied about.. a diatribe that was really evil TBH. very ashamed of what they did to her :(
In short... the opposite of what she said she would bring is what we received.
There is a housing and homelessness crisis all over the world, it's become horrific in the U.S. Is that occurring in NZ because of Arden's policies or is it things bigger going on, like the pandemic, the world economy, increased violence?
A bit of both tbh, where opposing parties criticized the ardern government the most though was her bold promises at the beginning of her term regarding the kiwibuild housing scheme....which was a big flop with the government pumping exorbitant amounts of money elsewhere in the economy. Was quite hypocritical, on top of a few topics touched on in this video..as well as what hasn't been mentioned. 😀
That doesn’t excuse her not doing anything to help it. She’s a ffing landlord after all. She’s literally profiting off her own inaction.
While there is a worldwide issue, I'm not surprised to hear it's so much worse in New Zealand. The geography is already limited, and a lot of the largest sections of New Zealand's economy rely on making that already little land pretty low density. Sad to hear that the government has apparently done so little to address it though.
Years ago national sold a lot of homes and put the rents up to market rent people moved out of state homes that were poorly cared for and moved into private rentals, private landlords upped the price of rents as houses became harder to get and then national sold even more houses as well as letting a lot of foreigners in to NZ which then caused a shortage of houses, Jacinda has been building thousands of houses to help the lower income families have a home, when rents are $600 to $700 a week for a standard 3 bedroom house people just can not afford it so live in cars until a government house becomes available. The rich see this as Jacindas fault but in reality it's the rich greedy home owners charging excessive rents.
Lou she promised thousands of houses per year but delivered only 1000 total.
It appears she was more loved in other countries than she was at home.
Very true
The age of misinformation
Only wef
The thug communist came out of her with covid.
@@westsideAUKILANI she was going to lose badly if she stood again, her brand was toxic, she left because she was going to lose not because of internet trolls lol. What a cop out
I was cruising in my work truck through Ponsonby, said wassup to Aunty Cindy and she ain't said nothing back. Just looked at me like wtf.
New Zealand truly is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
I’d say NZ’s housing crisis is a very serious and difficult problem. Winning popularity contests isn’t going to make you qualified to deal with it
I’d also argue their connections with China are a major issue that is infrequently addressed. When I traveled there in 2019 some locals were telling me about all of their exports going to china. China nearly dominates their industries and receives a huge portion of their exports. They are extremely dependent on China.
@@kutie216they should have stopped foreigners from buying up land and housing a long time ago. It is criminal what is happening with the housing market.
Anyone who's in love with a politician a) doesn't know what love is b) doesn't know the nature of politicians or c) is incredibly naive or stupid or d) all of the above
Ahh man I'm so bad at multiple choices.
If you love anyone you’ve never met irl period this also applies. A lot of commenters here who are fawning over her 100% ain’t even from New Zealand 💀💀
See, I'm not sure I agree entirely. People were "in love" with Jacinda because she was personable and relatable. It's okay to love a politician while also being critical on policy. And also not obsessing over our politicians like celebrities.
A) I wanna know what love is...
B) I want you to show me...
Well said and that's the world over.
There were alot of promises she couldn't keep!! The housing crisis here in NZ is ridiculous, she definitely made herself look good to the world but here back in NZ she wasn't really liked at all but that's it the world saw her as a good leader cause of the pandemic ect..not knowing what's really going on
I wouldn't call misogynists, antiaxxers & those misrepresenting progressive politics as being full blown marxism as everyone, just a loud over reaching minority.
Particularly at a time where on social media platforms around the world these types of groups were taking advantage pushing their propaganda.
I think we've all got alot better at filtering out all that noise
She finally saw the writing on the wall. Evil is that evil does. 😮
Without really knowing much about her internal policy successes/failures I do kinda respect a politician who knows when to walk away. That instead of fighting a probably pretty brutal campaign to stay in power they realize it's better to step away both for them, their party and the country.
She isn't walking away because she thinks it is the right thing to do you understand, she is walking away because she can see the writing on the wall. She might be good at hugging people, running a country however.
@@Alejandro-bd6yy I recommend re-reading my comment without having your comprehension coloured by political bias.
This is naivety. This is not out of the goodness of her heart but this is to save the party’s chances of winning elections. This is because governments in Westminster parliamentary systems and and similar systems forces these behaviours.
I'm from Holland and our PM has seen the writing on the wall for 8 years yet he's still here having survived multiple political crises including lying to parliament, lying about lying, hiding evidence, obstruction of justice, refusing to hand over documents that legally should be handed over to members of parliament or journalists, even after being compelled to do so by a judge.
And I wouldnt be surprised if he tries another time. 15 years ago we laughed about Berlusconi out here but now we've become that.
@@cinnabar546 I swear reading comprehension on the internet is at an all time low these days...
Sign of a strong democracy is when a person can relinquish power and not fall into turmoil.
“ Either you die like a hero or live to see yourself become a villain” Jacinda resigned liked a hero and wasn’t power hungry at all
'federal presidential constitutional republic'. The four words used to describe the U.S. government on Wikipedia. Where's that "democracy" at?
@@hubertcumberdale2651 What a hilarious take! Yes, we have democracy in New Zealand. If fact due to our mixed member parliament system, our government is much more representative of our population than other countries.
@Hubert Cumberdale op is describing new Zealand, not America.
Also democracy and republicanism aren't mutual exclusive.
Hello... She was unelected.
She might've being born in new zealand, but she's no kiwi.
Canada’s PM needs to take notes.
As someone who immigrated to New Zealand since there is such a high demand for plumbers and welders I'll never understand the whole tax your economy into producing less emissions. I came here from Canada and I think this country is beautiful and the people are amazing but both Canadian and New Zealand governments seem so out of touch with the people and just want to appear as environmentalist to the rest of the world even if it means destroying domestic food and energy production.
nailed it
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Klaus schwab and th WEF
Bang on Like Dr Peterson stated in an interview (paraphrasing) how much long term pain are we willing to take for little to no gain for an uncertain amount of time. Beats me what these environmentalists got going in their tax tax tax brains
Want to look good to the rest of the world while telling it's own citizens to shove it.
The only policy Farmers can point to is the "proposed" (ie not implemented) regulation on Farming emissions. And for that, they'll play victim non-stop. Its infuriating.
The only government the NZ farming industry will ever be happy with is one that allows for perpetual and unlimited environmental degradation. This has been proven over and over again.
Anything towards farmers is a threat to the food we put on our plates. We do not want farming run by government. And that’s exactly the plan they have. Tighten the belt on farmers till they collapse.
I’m not from NZ, but these moves against farmers under the guise of saving the planet have been happening in pretty much all developed countries and it’s ridiculous. It’s always a move to push the public off of meat, consolidate control of the food supply, or both. Before talk of these types of measures started, emissions in these countries were already in a severe negative slope. It’s progress for the sake of progress with the potential for nefarious intentions along the way
@@3.0ptix So you think there should be absolutely no limits of any sort on what farmers can do?
Such a stupid policy...Why don't they tax the people who eat?
I feel like this could've been a longer video and more in-depth. It sort of gives a brief overview of what's happening and a couple reasons why, but I think the "why" part could be further elaborated on.
Politicians know extremely well that they only have to sell their image. who cares about if they have a plan. They know this very well. The people only deserve what they get. Who the hell even knows anything about plans ? Nobody is bothered to read one even if it was handed to them. Politicians know this extremely well.
A couple of things to consider: 1. Not every achievement shows up on paper or in a nice graph. For instance international reputation is something all countries care hugely about, having a good international reputation is everything in a globalized world, and Jacinda Ardern has probably done more for NZ's international reputation than any leader in their history. But you can't measure it, and it can take a long time for the benefits to materialize, so the average voter doesn't understand it. 2. Poor results does not necessarily mean that the leader has done a poor job, todays global inflation is a perfect example, it's impossible for any one leader to stop that. So, was she really a bad leader or was it just bad times? 3. Doing the popular thing and doing the right thing is not always the same, some times a leader needs to make some hard decisions that are necessary, even though they are unpopular. Perfect examples of this is pandemic response measures and fighting climate change, both of these issues needs to be addressed, and a strong leader would do them even if it cost them their job. 4. This world needs warm compassionate leaders more than ever, this has a huge signal effect because leaders are role models, they set the course for how we should conduct ourselves. She showed us that you don't have to be a rude cutthroat bully, it's possible to rule with warmth and compassion. Sadly, this too is impossible to measure, but it actually matters to people to have a kind leader with integrity.
I'm not here to say whether or not Jacinda Ardern did a good or poor job, I'm not even from New Zealand. All I can say is that she has definitely put NZ on the map in the most positive way, and I can tell you for a fact that you will benefit from her leadership in many years to come, even if it can't be directly measured.
Your comment deserves a million likes. I totally agree with you.
Tell me you are a sycophant, without telling me you are a sycophant 😂
@@amoghavarshanripatunga A sycophant is someone who licks ass in order to gain an advantage, but I have nothing to gain from this, other than being burned on the internet probably:)
That being said I have no problem admitting that I admire her leadership, she has really been a breath of fresh air in politics, especially on the international stage.
@@Miguel-rb5qw Thanks:)
Man, not even Chat GPT can put up a logical argument for Ardern. She's shot our international rep. Well, that's what happens when you lobotomize the AI.
They're getting angry now and insulting journalists. Please, think of the AI. End AI lobotomies now.
As someone who voted for her and her party, she was genuinely liked for the first few years in office. However, things took a turn at the beginning of last year. Currently, I work in a laboratory that is part of the hospital, I saw many people fired after not wanting/couldn't take the booster. Many nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants, and medical laboratory workers couldn't stay. We never managed to hire more people to fill the gaps. We are always short-staffed and overworked. To make it worse, the private sector is not matching the constant minimum wage increases. While next door in Australia, we are being offered more money and moving costs included in the new employment package. Many hospital workers don't want to stay if they will be obligated to get another booster this year. This happened on top of food shortages, house prices/rents increased, and more taxes. She tried her best to please everyone, but she moved too fast with her policies. In a country that could be self-sustainable, milk and meat prices are outrageous. And now we don't have many eggs available because many farmers couldn't accommodate the cage-free policies. Yes protecting the environment is necessary, but Labour was too aggressive with its policies and didn't take into consideration the population's needs.
Australia deserves you and of course National would have done better lol yeah nah!
If a nurse or healthcare worker won't get a vaccine, essentially a miracle of modern medicine and has save countless millions of lives, they should be fired. Imagine your plumber not believing in p-traps? Like how fucking dumb can ya be.
Basically everything you named every other first-world developed country is going through, regardless of political party. Inflation hit every country in the world. House prices/rents have increased in every country. Food shortages as well. And there's a massive chicken disease going around right now in ALL parts of the world that are leading to egg shortages. It's really challenging to deal with all of these problems.
@@PSNDonutDude not a matter of not believing. We are all vaccinated but many of my colleagues had side effects, including myocarditis after their second vaccine. We had our vaccines to protect the public but who is protecting us?
How could so many healthcare workers be so stupid about health? I don't want selfish dumb doctors and nurses treating me or my loved ones. Good riddance.
As a Kiwi and someone who adored her to an extent. Dealing with Covid19, white island and the Terror attack I am proud of her. The farmers export their produce first and formost. They still make money but New Zealanders pay more for produce. Farmers are not looking after the country and have destroyed most of our rivers, now un swimmable, fishable or usable. Housing is a world wide problem (the critics here need to get out more to learn more). NZ went well through COVID not due to COVID but due to the measures she took. The country should be greatful. Sexist NZ is the old NZ. Yes, we led the way with a lot but we did the opposite too. She helped us get our Maori language, values and traditions back as a focus for ongoing development. This I love. But...
World wide there is right now masisve racist agendas that no one is doing anything about. It is fasionable for the times to be racist against white races. It is taught in our schools in NZ that whites must take a back step and kids can be bullied for being white (regardless if the child is a light skinned Maori, I am alsoa light skinned Maori, my wife dark skinned. our kids mixed.). *this is a world wide problem. eg. the USA right now has anti slavery pushed while there are more slaves in Africa owned by blacks today than ever were taken by non blacks to the USA. Correct me if I am wrong :). This is a whole new topic which needs addressed because of the current modern slavery in Aisa and Africa that florishes because the world is focussed on fashionable agendas. Not to mention that whites were once slaves (much larger scale not too long earlier- but lets not bring up the past... where did the world slave come from... Slav, Slavic ????)It is a world wide fashion from the USA that has spread. Yes the USA has about 80% whites (I am guessing) but the world itself is 60% Aisan. Add in latinos (depending if it is positive or negative where the world classifies latinos as white or brown). Add in Middle East, then Africa and you realize whites are a minority. Bubble just popped right? But lets not talk about it as it goes against the fashion of the times today. I have a son and a daughter. I want my daughter to have the same oppertunities as my son and vice versa. But I do nit want her to get a job because she is a girl or him to miss out because he is a male. All big bussinesses are doing this today and Jacinda supported it. The pay gap mis based on work not gender! We are fools to just look at bank accounts. The LGBTQ+ community should not be a community. It should be within us all. We have created an external community and in the future will cause havoc for them. Equality is equility. Like John Lennons song Imagine. This is what we need! The lyrics are the guide to solving everything world wide. Now I am on a rant. I love Jacnda. I have also tavelled, I speak other languages and have been other places. I am a proud New Zealander, Maori, Caucasian (Scottish desent) and proud Muslim man. I do not disklie the LGBTQ+ however I do dislike the pornography some of the community promotes in public. New Zealand is hurt. The world is hurt. We fight over stupid topics and miss the oppertunities to grow togther.
Sorry for the Rant. Jacinda was trying to do the right thing. Vice, you interviewed a farmer who comes from a trade that has destroyed our country and lined their own pockets. Not the best candidte for advice. Jacinda tried but the world is messed up with race, gender and life. I love and admire her but she never had the stregnth to stand up and recognize that too far in any direction is wrong!
Lies
@brenandemossita1000 nope, 100% truth. You'll see it too if you opened your eyes.
add to that, when covid was new it was damn scary, hundreds of thousands were dying all around the world with hot spots changing. The 1st variant went unchallenged by medicine as vaccines were still being hurriedly developed and then the 2nd variant arrived posing an even more deadly potential. There became a strong focus by the Labour Govt to minimise our risk by using all the methods that were implemented while monitoring the population vaccination percentage to hold off relaxing restraints until a certain degree of risk to life could be best protected. All the while providing extremely expensive financial support to so many, people came before money. It can never be known just how many lives were saved by these actions but it has been estimated in the thousands, so maybe me or someone in my family, or you or someone in your family is still alive today because of the actions taken by the Jacinda led Labour Govt. That to me is a huge huge debt of thanks owed by all of us.
Really important to keep things in perspective: ARDERN HAS BEEN THE PREFERRED NZ PRIME MINSTER BY NEW ZEALANDERS FROM SINCE SHE BECAME PRIME MINSTER TO RESIGNING. Vice produces a narrative here that is quite inaccurate statistically. Her all time low approval rating was still the highest rating compared to the competition.
Preferred....by the people polled by the media lol.
Media polls lol.
Good luck, New Zealand, you'll need it.
I think we will be fine😂
@@PeachesiceT Yeah you'll make a fine US colony. The Imperialists are foaming at the mouth at taking over the anglosphere. But you are sound asleep. Trust me our conservatives are not.
As an outsider commentator, how can you comment on our political situation purely based off speculation or by forming a naive opinion based on news-edited/biased news? Jacinda is not well-liked like how many international news outlets liked to portray her as. Yes, she is well-spoken, however behind that kind, motherly facade issues have been piling up, and only people living in NZ will truly understand the situation.
Why do journalists think talking to random people on the street(or farm) gives them a good picture of what a nations politics is like?
Those random people are affected by the national politics
Since you asked that, what do you think their best course of action should be?
Would you rather they interviewed government officals, reporters and the wef?
Those random people were selectively biased out
70% of NZ hated Jacinda
A bit like anonymous tweets being incorporated into news articles as sources of information.
I'm watching this during the aftermath of cyclone Gabrielle. The farmer @4.36 just broke my irony-meter "She threw us under the bus to make herself look good overseas."
She didn't throw us under a bus she bent us over and farked us
it was 3 am when i watch this Video and i thought Freddie mercury become NZ prime minister.
insults and no substance
She didn't step down just to preserve her legacy but also for the labour party's benefit.
She was also GATVOL of all the upstream swimming against a currant of people always bringing her down. It is tiresome.
Genuinely surprised by the fact that her leadership and time as prime minister is actually tact as faulty. Coming from an outsider who's country leader stepped down after regaining confidence during his second time as prime minister, his incompetent successor that nearly bankrupt the country (and still recovering from), his successor after being an absolute joke, and now a diminished hope for an elected leader who all believed was our answer forward. Though, as an outsider, I had not kept a close eye to NZ sadly. To learn this is quite disheartening really.
She still has a fair bit if support out there. Opinion on jacinda is very split.
she pays journalists a "public journalism" fund, millions of dollars to media that would otherwise go under due to their lack of objective journalistic integrity. In return they only write nice things about her and never mention her many awful failings.
@@sonyavincent7450 Only from those who are unaware of her shady dealings.
Don't listen to the haters of Jacinda, unfortunately there was a lot of far right extremists from Amercia pushing their agenda and idiots fall for it. She will go down as one of our best Prime Ministers ever.
@@simc... not the same as NZ
NZ Labour has the same issue with Canada, Australia and the UK. The Labour/Center-left parties talk the talk but never walk the walk, the extent of their policies are tinkering around what the right has set into the status quo and letting issues fester, while trying to cover over it with hard line stances on stuff like identity politics and culture war nonsense. Ardern is pretty much literally female Trudeau to put it in perspective in Canada, identity politics and culture war, while young people are driven enmass into homelessness, sorry "van life".
I can see why she decided not to run for re-elected. Half of her words seem to comprise of "empathy" or other synonyms. While that's all and good, what really matter are results, which she hasn't bragged about in this video.
Farmers will never, ever vote for Labour - no matter what their policies. Farming and rural communities are safe National regions / seats, but sometimes these folk have their head in the clouds, about the need to clean up their act and impact on the environment (particularly waterways.) It does however remain that Ardern lost control of the narrative around some of her policies, but in fairness was dealing with a pretty challenge in COVID at the time. NZ remains one of the lower countries for inflation in OECD, despite the rhetoric....
She was anything but compassionate, she talked about it a lot but literally did nothing compassionate in the whole time. Child poverty, housing, endless consultation at enormous cost, restriction of personal freedoms, crime policies backfiring etc etc etc. Just a great PR team and big smile.
Agreed. Mrs horse smile is a tyrant from Human Resources. Mrs ratchet incarnate
Exactly, she openly gloated at a press conference about creating a two-tiered, segregated society. Just another deranged psychopath like the rest of them.
She answered to the globalists not NZ.
Your forgetting what happened in the general world at the time she was it wasn't just NZ facing these problems.
@The Critical Summary you're forgetting that that is a cop out. You can't blame the world for Jacinda's behaviour
Very similar to Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin
completely removed from what Ardern did or didn’t do for NZ, I wish I could see this country’s elected officials act like the adults that they are. I know it’s just a highlight reel but I have never seen American politicians be so respectful and considerate of public opinion.
Okay?
I'm from New Zealand and yes we are fucked atm
Its all a farce. We’ve had a conservative economy for generations we got enough money in the coffers to last us through any storm like we did in covid. Theres a big snatch going on and the parties are all in on it
Easy summation as to why. Huge promises no delivery.
i'm a nzer. i don't remember any promises. what were they?
@@nigelralphmurphy2852 you can looks this up on the internet, there proposed policy etc. get off your but and look it up
Who knew people in a democratic society wouldn’t like being told by a politician that they themselves should be the only source for truth and that other opinions should be regulated by the government?
She's a major big time unt. The only thing missing is the special "K"
5:18 Bishop has been called out on this claim numerous times as the reports specifically mention they do not calculate children.
the people that they reference were some of the most controversial leaders in the world
the cabinet penetrators... vice is sponsored by them. This is P.R. , propaganda , damage control and rewriting history.
The problem is that many in NZ are very much still in love with her. Did her popularity take a hit in the aftermath of covid? Yes, but it was already high and as preferred PM she still polled top. The issue is that her party took a significant hit almost certainly because of the same thing.
Those headwinds combined with the stressors compounding because of what happened in the job probably led her to make the choice to seek more accommodating employment.
Too bad she didn't put her notice in sooner but then again it's not as if we wouldn't have just got another stooge who would've toed the same line.
no she wasn't she was falling like a lead balloon. and there will be an inquiry into her handling of a certain pan demic. she saw this coming. then again she bought/gagged the media with an order by a dirty defence attorney in the case of her coke-snorting bed partner clark. once that comes out and it is being worked on, she will be toast as far as her reputation is concerned. hence the tears at leaving office. sorry for herself.
left wing vermin cant govern
Love, empathy, and kindness went sadly missing from her politics when confronted with views that got in the way of her agenda.
Yep, she was a real rightwing dictator.
@@avpr1574 as with Albo and Trudeau, I call them "fake left". They ride the rainbow painted identity politics gravy train while allowing every plutocratic corporate interest that is only interested in economic rent to gut the working and middle classes. Good riddance Jacinda!
Unfortunately showing will always be more important than doing in Politics. Everyone kept saying "she cared about people" but that doesn't really mean much without actions to back it up. I am not saying I agree or disagree with the views expressed on the video, which by the way felt kind of superficial and one-sided.
It was only made possible because we're in such an era of virtue signaling. That's what's led to this nonsense.
yeh, "balanced" but not a lot of analysis. doesn't seem you can discuss the perception of her in New Zealand without connecting to the larger state of political polarization. she was merely a lightning rod for that difference. outside of that, and unique with respect to her, was her personalistic manner. discussion of that and its potential to "cross the political divide" may have been a good focus for a story about her
They promised 100,000 homes and delivered around 1or 2 % of that number.
Either a blatant lie or sheer incompetence by advisors!
Either way it’s not ok.
And all the talk about empathy, please that’s talked about but not shown!
As a Yank, hearing y'all have unaffordable housing just like we experience here in the states is interesting. We have large corporations using real estate as investments and there's one based in Canada who claims the "American Dream" is a white picket fenced home, even if the occupier doesn't own it. I would imagine in NZ, like it is here in the US, that your home is your most valuable asset and if one cannot purchase a home, either through high cost, or no availability, makes life that much harder. What seems apparent throughout the world is governments allowing the wealthy to head us to oligarchy. It is sad and frustrating.
But houses are cheap in the US and you get thirty year morgages.
National is far from being a great option, but was way better than Jacinda's Labour in so many important ways.
During the last stage with National government, John/Bill governments, NZ was doing great in economy, employment and low crime rates. Under National government NZ resisted quite well the 2008 world's financial crisis and keep growing about 3.5% GDP yearly, the only downside was the realstate market rising prices, but Jacinda did it way worst anyway.
Please don't forget that at the end was Bill who won the elections, not Jacinda. Nonetheless was Winston who gave her the win. (What was he thinking?! ).
For those who do not remember Jacinda promised during her political campaign to build one hundred thousands new affordable homes and to reduce the realstate market prices rise (Kiwi Build) , also to reduce child poverty, within others promises that she failed to deliver.
The only thing that Jacinda delivered is giving heaps of new multiple types of benefits and financial help, plus increasing the existing ones.
The problem is that she did this by getting massive money loans that the NZ working class, our kids and grandkids will need to pay off.
It doesn't surprise me that she once said that Pedro Sánchez was a politician she admires. (one of the worst presidents in Spain's hystory).
If you can remember at the beginning of 2020 Jacinda was behind Judith in the polls. Then COVID-19 came and gave Jacinda the win through the most powerful tool for a politician, voters' fear.
Thank God she is gone now. More time under her ruling would only have caused economical disaster, a broader separation of the New Zealanders by race, more debt, the increase of people and kids living in poverty and the continuous punishment of the working class.
Why would you say that Pedro Sanchez is the worst President is spanish history?
@@popicelolly not the worst, that probably would be Franco. But one of the worst. Check it out and you'll see.
they didn't even interview her real critics
Sounds about right..
Like Brian Tamaki, they should have interviewed him to get the real truth
@@jaredoelderink-wale350 Tamaki couldnt make money off his sermons so he became a conspiracy nut and started charging for his events. Whos really the sheep here
@@jaredoelderink-wale350 "the real truth" lmao do you realize how stupid you sound? You mean the "truth" that aligns with your particular world view, begotten from years of brainwashing in he midst of your tiny little echo chamber.
Stop being a sheep. No one side holds the absolute truth. Everyone is questionable and can be criticized. Learn nuance
Be brave
No mention of Three Waters?
How was I able to understand the rural farmer’s English better than the official government dialogue…
I think I can safely say the majority, or close to, of Wellingtonians never went off her. Lots of regional people and small business owners have been turned off her, but she still has many, many supporters in the capital.
Those with money. Those with a house. Those who aren't affected by the crime/drugs issues. They support Aunty, but not anyone else.
We in Auckland. cant stand her, she put us in continuous lockdowns to the point 30-40% of small business did not survive, people lost their homes, had to rehome pets. We did it the hardest and we voted her in! She NEVER visited the victims of the Sandringham ram raids and murder - HER own electorate! She dug her own grave. She killed what Auckland use to be and it is so sad.
@@louisavondart9178 and were you so loving to key when he destroyed the ability to own a house and the crime rate was just as bad but hypocritical national voters always blame labour and have never been good at self-reflection
@@louisavondart9178 She has the whole Maori community as well
Many in Wellington couldn't bear her . Certainly most people i know thought she was dreadful..
I think the personal attacks on her, in social media channels, was uncalled for. The level of hate mail she received was hardly what was expected from New Zealanders. I guess the influence if Australia is effecting traditional New Zealand norms.
Nobody needed to attack her. She was wrong enough that they only needed to correct her - persistently and strongly, in public, private etc. until the narcissistic charade ended and they cleaned up their act. What they've done was damning enough, you're right nobody needed to attack. Only point out.
It takes a lot for Kiwi's to stand up we know when our rights are being trampled on and we know what we need to do which at the least is to show our displeasure at any attempt to lead us up the garden path. It is the vast number of migrants we have that don't. I presume that is why they were allowed to come to NZ as it will counter the the kiwi narrative. Many have come from war torn countries so NZ is seen as a welcoming and free nation. I guess that's why the term Replacement Theory was introduced. to erode a nations national identity. e.g. They have never known that all vaccines in western nations have Informed Consent attachments. Which were excluded from the Covey vax.
@@BC-wj8fx You were not heard even if you did speak out which included many Medical practitioners. She simply followed Event 201 policy "control the narrative" I will be your sole source of truth.
"She brought hope to people who felt not listened to and included." what world is Woods living in . She admitted to creating and two class society based on medical choices and thought it was funny and refused to come and speak to people who were literally physically injured from her orders that everyone has to get the treatment or lose their jobs. She is not kind. She did not bring hope. So glad she is gone.
If anyone fell in love ...... they fell in love with her lies and one day when they wake up a find out they will feel the same as those who woke up to it a lot earlier. Its going to hurt even more.
Interesting video but the title oversells it a bit. I think if you asked people about virtually any other leader in the world you'd have no problem finding tons of people who despise them and are willing to say so on camera. By contrast Ahern seems to apparently still enjoy an impressive level of respect and admiration.
She is despised.
@@quietquitter6103 By you and others with your judgement
@@dereksmith9473 In other words the rational majority.
@@quietquitter6103 No not the majority at all 😬
@@frenchskuxx Let me be clear to your delusional ass. Most of us can't stand her.
There are a lot of factors that go amiss here. One that I learned coming out of the pandemic was from an older colleague, I was explaining to him that I was considering growing my business in NZ or moving overseas to which he replied - "I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter - leave. Roger Douglas installed his economic system in 1980 and the country never recovered."
From there I did a bit more research and realized the country has been broken since neoliberalism, all the pandemic did was unmask the issues. Ardern and Labour have done a good enough job of holding the country together, but sadly the problems stem way back and won't be resolved under National leadership.
Don’t agree she had her own agenda which is yet to be seen.
@@sylviaspandow-tassi5644 every politician has an agenda. Jacindas has been scrutinised more than most because of the pandemic and tall poppy syndrome, And possibly because she’s a woman. However if
You do the research you’ll realise the country was broken well before she came on the scene.
The neoliberal reforms of rogernomics were seen as painful but necessary measures. Some of the reforms such as removing farm subsidies, while painful, benefitted us in the long term. Labor had inherited a huge debt and rampant inflation from the Muldoon government, so It was going to suck either way. If rogernomics was the tip, the subsequent Jim Bolger government was the shaft of the proverbial neo-liberal dildo.
Every post middle aged person I talk to gives me a wildly different opinion on those times. Some say it was the ultimate savior of the country, others say we got royally fucked.
@@DinoPimp Ha ha, some great analogies there. Im sure you're right the subtle nuances of the insertion should be discussed and would take longer than what's available here - The main thing I'm aware of with ol' mate Roger was the dismantling of the social safety nets that were holding the country together, along with the disinvestment in infrastructure. (don't forget in 1900 Auckland was the leading public transport city in the world).
And the main point I'm interested to stress here is - It's not Jacinda's fault. All of this has been going on for decades. People are just looking for a scapegoat.
For myself, I took that colleague's suggestion and moved last August to Melbourne and it has highlighted to me what a healthy functional society looks like.
Douglas installed a pro-business system at the expense of everything else. So it could be a good place to grow a business depending on how outward looking it is. If anything broke during those reforms it was a collective nationwide spirit. Afterwards, everything became looking out for yourself instead of considering we are a 'we'.
Thanks for creating an open and fair discussion on that matter
So, basically, the female Justin Trudeau.
Nahh, Shes way better than Trudeau
Yep ,as soon as the interview with the farmer occurred I’m like ok , this is bad journalism
They couldn't just interview Jacinda's fans club, don't you think?
It was a long drive to look at some cows.
Yup should have been a bludger like you
I have one question to people who live in high cost-of-living areas like NZ and CA: Why are you willing to pay so much in taxes if you don't see that return in your quality of life? The whole point of pooling funds to redistribute them is that it should be easier for you to live, not harder.
You're not wrong, but that's assuming that there are good viable alternatives in their political system. Replacing con artists with con artists (sorry for the pessimism 😄 )
I agree, it is expensive to live here. My step dad always used to say, 'It's expensive to live in Paradise'. I've done a little bit of travelling, and whilst I am very biased, there's literally no where like Aotearoa. Sure, we have problems, every single country does, but you will not live a better life anywhere else in the world, and most New Zealanders fail to recognise how goddamm lucky we are to have what we have
@Kevin Fleming sorry I actually meant California at the time, not canada. I have no idea what the CoL is in Canada.
We have relatively low taxes on an international scale.
Be we do have free health care and a lot of other benefits.
Living in CA I like that our state came together to get rid of mosquitos with my tax dollars. The roads are also of top-notch quality. I get a quite high salary, and while the taxes are high, they’re not as high as you may think. I actually paid more on taxes in Texas bc the property taxes there are crushing. Plus, California is just so beautiful. I got bored after a few weeks in Houston since there’s just not anything to do, no hiking trails nearby. San Fran has so many, and nice ones too. So, I guess you pay for what you get 🤷♂️
Spent too much energy virtue signalling instead of solving the real problems
I never knew we had a “bayhaive”😂
All i know is dont rely on the government to look after you
Sadly some people still think the government really gives two shits about normal people like us , unless you’re a millionaire or celebrity they couldn’t give a rats ass
@@bpswank429 i wonder why they think that
@@bpswank429 Yeah but Millionaires know the govt wont help them get rich, so thats why they worked their ass off to get rich
@@samartz Yup, Rap musicians, hedge fund managers and landlords work their asses off, unlike lazy factory workers, construction workers and their like.
@@samartz lmao you really think true millionaires worked their asses off ? It’s called generational wealth and a lot of whites families wealth came off the back of minorities little kid
It’s amazing how so many foreigners will admire a country’s leader, when that country’s citizens will think that are so-so or not great at all. Trudeau being another one…
As a Canadian Tudeau is brilliant, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Yeah because they dont see the aftermath of what everyone has to go through, just what the media shows them.
As a kiwi believe me it’s a minority kicking up a fuss. Most of us actually have respect for what she’s lead our country through.
@@iceman18211 just dont ask him to add small numbers, he cant do math, plus dont expect him to hold any ethical standards, plus he loves to give our money to his friends, and he cant really do much with his handlers like feed himself.
@@JohnDoe-gg6kc What are you talking about man? Canada's GDP is growing like crazy, hope he gets 4 more years, rather than those NDP or CON guys.
Wow, so that's what "journalism" looks like? "He said", "she said"? No backing up with facts, investigation, any of that boring stuff? Just go with a microphone on a street and ask random people questions what they think? I'm pretty sure they give Pulitzers for that.
Edit: No surprise they're going out of business 😆
We need leaders not dictators.
Thanks to Jacinda,now I live in Australia:) moved in 2022,much appreciated.😂
Yea
Kiwis have been moving way before Jacinda, especially when john key was in charge 😅
Not even far in yet but I bet someone’s gonna mention “whokeness”
The woke virus is taking over our society
If you go by the definition of wokeness from the US justice system, I don't understand why you don't agree with it.
shut up
@@arcticwulf5796 EXACTLY..👍🏼
To be fair your the first. Are you trying to steer the ship??
I trust farmers more than politicians. Farmers live a life based in reality.
He just doesnt want to give up cattle farming despite the fact that climate change is going to wreak havoc on him in the long run. If he wanted he could switch to farming something else or regenerative agriculture. Plenty of people do.