LEST WE FORGET: WHY NZ'S IN THIS MESS

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It just served us right, if we're silly enough to watch TvOne Spews, to behold Maiki Sherman positively drooling over the 1News Verian poll which reckoned that there's now more support for the Opposition than for the Coalition Government.

"The person with most to complain about is Foreign Minister Winston Peters. He has trotted over half the globe meeting prime ministers, presidents and dignitaries in service to the national interest, delivered a speech at Gallipoli that Abe Lincoln would have been – indeed was – proud of, and for what?

A fall in the polls that would see New Zealand First out of Parliament again if translated to votes. It will only reinforce to Peters’ party advisers that there are no votes in statesmanship. The way to be remembered is not through lofty speeches but by low-level street fighting and attacking the media, wokeness, the Treaty, and media wokeness over the Treaty" - Audrey Young, NZ Herald. 

"Winston needs to get back to walloping the woke, the media, bludgers and ratbag Maori separatists" - Cam Slater, BFD.

But lest we forget, a short sharp reminder of the performance of the Labour/Greens' Government of the last six years which is the reason for the Coalition Government's apparent unpopularity:

A recent poll had Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party with enough support to govern once again. Though it is at least a couple of years till the next election (as scheduled) a reminder of the past six years is timely.

Readers will be interested in a site called KPI - Kiwi Performance Indicators. It provides a range of indicators relating to various aspects of the economy and compares National's performance to Labour's over varying time frames. Four are selected below:

Each of the graphs - plus many more - is interactive at the KPI site where you can learn more about the data and where it is sourced. It's well worth visiting and subscribing to.Lest we forget ... Labour's performance (bassettbrashandhide.com)

Coincidentally, today - May 1 - the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of St Joseph the Worker, a feast instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1955 to countermand International Workers' Day. Pius XII was prophetically concerned about the growing threat of socialism and its big sister, communism, to the family and Christianity. 

New Zealand needs only to look at the graphs above to see how that threat manifested in this country during the benighted years of the Ardern regime, and return to the ideals represented by St Joseph the Worker: humility, hard toil and obedience to God.

 

The Childhood of Christ
Gerrit van Honthorst


Whatever you do in word or work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him

- Col 3,17