Actually, it was just the worst of times!
Three years of the most extreme, ideologically driven and inept socialist government NZ has ever seen…with a pandemic and cyclone thrown in for good measure.
Led by a celebrity PM who talked lots and dissembled even more. Aspiration for her was everything, eclipsing achievement every time. And, oh boy, was she good at it!
She enabled a group of activists who set about dismantling our democracy in favour of an ethno-nationalist arrangement whereby 17% of the population, claiming to have some Maori ancestry, however tiny, would effectively rule over everyone else.
