Clive Bibby: The misuse of kindness and other politically overused metaphors to describe our leaders

We appear to be living at a time when it is virtually impossible to rely on the political character references being sold by the party propaganda machine.

In that context, one has to wonder why our former Prime Minister, Dame Jacinda Ardern, has chosen a country other than the one she led for almost two terms in which to settle after her " flash in the pan, meteoric" political career ended so abruptly.

We could be forgiven for thinking that maybe the exposure of her and her bunch of supportive clandestine operatives and the corresponding backlash to their fraudulent time in government would be the main reason why a return to her birthplace is no longer the safe environment it once was.

Because, it only takes a little research of how her government and Jacinda Ardern personally were mistakenly perceived during her tenure in order to understand why the basis for her once stratospheric popularity is now the subject of so much debate.

Well - my guess is that people who promote themselves as the personification of human qualities we all admire but too often struggle to demonstrate when they are most needed, are found out to be someone different than the one suggested by the headline during a national crisis.

I have no doubt that Jacinda's sensitive reaction to the Christchurch massacre of over 50 innocent Muslims was totally genuine and the popularity it engendered was thoroughly deserved but my point is that people who promote themselves as the "full monty" must expect a massive reaction when the total persona is found to be based on a lie.

Having read that, you may well be demanding evidence to back such a dramatic claim.

OK, here goes!

Firstly, and perhaps the most damaging exposure of her government's real agenda was the clandestine attempt to share 50-50 the total control of all our fresh water reserves with Maoridom - an ethnic group that represents no more than 15 - 20 % of the total New Zealand population.

Imagine the uproar if Luxon was contemplating the same trick by offering a similar deal to Federated Farmers. No doubt he would suffer the same consequences as the Hipkins remnants did at the next general election - and rightly so!

That is the price you pay for a betrayal of such magnitude.

The second damning evidence is the use of discredited information during Covid to justify one of the world's most unnecessarily prolonged "lockdowns" when we were led to believe that the country's economic, physical and mental survival was so dependent on its implementation.

In reality, these draconian measures, promoted on the basis of fairness for all, exposed a "mind-set" more in keeping with modern day Marxist theory than the "kindness" and "equality" Ardern and her sycophantic colleagues would have had us believe.

And we are still paying for the economic and socially disruptive mess these totalitarian measures have caused.

No wonder our "Wonder Woman" prefers the relative obscurity of Aussie suburbia than a return to her homeland where her presence would be an everyday reminder of the damage a "Jekyll and Hyde" character can do before being exposed as a dishonest fraud.

Clive Bibby is a commentator, consultant, farmer and community leader, who lives in Tolaga Bay.