Judith Collins has related Jacinda’s winning smile to her own persona (as crusher) and is now flashing smiles everywhere
as she spouts her disingenuous propaganda. Nothing will take away the truly mean spirit that she displayed when she
refused compensation for David Bain on the pretext that he had not proven his innocence. Our law has an “innocent until
proven guilty” principle. His conviction was thrown out as being unsafe (as were her follow-up actions).
National must think that we have very short memories, or maybe they are counting on the gullibility of the youth vote as
they tell us how much better (than Labour) they will manage the economy. They blame Labour for a slow start to providing
housing, health, and education improvements, but gloss over the shrinking of the country’s building capacity occasioned
by National’s lack of action under John Key’s “What housing crisis” mantra. If we give National/ACT a break now, we will
have to repair even more damage to our economic productivity; and probably a spread Covid-19 as they rush to embrace
other countries’ blunders.
There is a particular nastiness in National’s destructive criticisms of the government. Should the “nasty NATs” rebrand
under the acronym “NATSY?”