The question was simple and direct:
“Rate Jacinda Ardern’s leadership during the Covid pandemic.”
The options were:
Great in parts
Excellent
Awful
Lacking in areas
Average
The options were:
Great in parts
Excellent
Awful
Lacking in areas
Average
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Over 49,000 people responded, and the results speak for themselves. A clear majority of 43 percent rated her leadership as awful. That isn’t a fringe opinion, it’s a roar from a public that still feels bruised and betrayed. This wasn't a close result or a statistical fluke. This was a damning indictment of a Prime Minister whose pandemic policies were dressed up as compassion while they inflicted real, lasting damage. Her decisions are the reasons why people are dead.
What’s disturbing is that 32 percent still rated her leadership as excellent. That number says more about the power of media spin and celebrity-style politics than it does about actual governance. Under Ardern’s rule, people were locked out of their own country and left begging for a spot in the MIQ lottery. Families couldn’t bury their loved ones. People lost their jobs over vaccine mandates. Mental health collapsed. Small businesses were suffocated while big corporations were padded with government cheques.
Ardern didn’t lead with grace. She ruled with a clenched fist, wrapped in the velvet glove of paid PR fluff and fake kindness. “Be kind” became a mantra used to silence dissent. Anyone who dared question her was branded a conspiracy theorist or worse. It was not leadership. It was control, and it came with a horse-tooth smile so it fooled the international press.
Now, she's reportedly back in New Zealand. You’d think after being away and collecting awards for her “service,” she might front up and listen to those she hurt. Instead, social media has lit up with people calling for accountability. They haven’t forgotten being told they couldn't visit dying family members, or the emotional toll of being isolated for months on end while the government patted itself on the back.
Last month I ran my own poll on X. The question was blunt:
“Who would you rather have over for dinner, Jacinda Ardern or Adolf Hitler?”
The result was shocking to some, but not to those who lived through her decisions. A majority of respondents said they would rather dine with Hitler. It was a disturbing outcome, but one that reflects how intensely people resent her legacy. To many, Ardern didn’t just make hard calls. She made cold ones. And she showed no real remorse for the suffering that followed.
She is in my opinion, the most hated New Zealander of all time.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
She's a walking advertisement for hypocrisy!
Yep, confirming what most of NZ knew.
I listened to about 2 minutes of Ian Taylors letter being analysed on "The Platform" then switched off. I just never agreed that Ardern was expected to, or ever intended to, end "child poverdy." I never voted for her or saw anything extraordinary in her. She didn't have a legacy and it was New Zealand she left in ruins. A legacy denotes something positive. She used to flap her arms about in parliament and used any learned communication techniques she could muster. However, she said nothing of value. It's such a shame that politicians have this great platform to use but hardly any use it wisely.
Last paragraph is 100% correct
Hmm, in that survey, whether we agree with them or not, it seems 45% rated her above the central "awful" rating. We have to be careful with statistics and the questions that we pose to get them. That aside, is this proof positive that brainwashing has worked? As for dining with JA or AH, well the latter would probably be far more interesting than the Marxist shill - just don't get on his wrong side ....
“What’s disturbing is that 32 percent still rated her leadership as excellent”.
Is this the lucky percentage that got the exemption and/or the heads up about the safe and effective”?
Ah, the loyal 32% — the kind who’d applaud a house fire because it was lit with scented candles and came with a platitude on kindness & empathy.
While the rest of the country counts the cost in suicides, bankruptcies, and kids locked out of classrooms for years, this crowd is still swooning over how “well-spoken” she was while wrecking the place.
It’s deadly impressive — watching a third of the population confuse catastrophic leadership with compassion just because it came wrapped in a warm PR filter.
Reality collapsed, but hey, at least the PM looked caring while she torched the village.
the media whore, who bought the media!!!!
Aargh, I have actually survived meeting Ardern; I guess I may have survived meeting Matua K, but I wouldn't know.... As for the poll, well, readers of the article would be coming to it as pro- or anti-Ardern: otherwise they'd not be likely to be reading it. (I didn't, but was interested in the poll once I'd heard about that.). A representative sampling would get more people in the more neutral categories. I think the percentages of the general population who think Ardern's performance in the pandemic either excellent or awful are a minority.
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