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| Allegiance to Davos? |
"There is a convention", according to the Gang of Four, "that ministers are interviewed by inquiries in private." So say Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson and Verrall, to excuse their inexcusable refusal to appear before the COVID Inquiry. Once upon a time, you crooks, there was a quaint convention of Ministers of the Crown speaking the truth.
"There is no reason," say the Gang of Four, "for a departure from that convention in this case." You bet there is, you swindlers. 'This case' of the COVID hoax and governmental malfeasance is unprecedented in the history of this country, and the reason for a departure from convention is simply that not only must justice be done but it must be SEEN to be done.
"Acting contrary to that convention," the GoF goes on, "would undermine rather than enhance public confidence in this instance." Oh really. Pull the other one, you cowards. How is it possible to 'undermine' public confidence which has completely collapsed under the weight of your COVID lies?
"Repeating questions at a public hearing," according to the GoF, "would be performative." But, you deceivers, what else were your daily parades in our living rooms, but 'performative'? You were happy to perform then and New Zealanders expect you to perform now. We your employers require it.
"Recordings of the hearings," the Gang of Four concludes mendaciously, "creates a risk of those recordings being "tampered with, manipulated or otherwise misused." Oh but, you spivs, New Zealanders are well inured by now to information being tampered with, manipulated and otherwise misused, by your very selves.
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| May the grins soon be wiped off their faces |
Over to Cam Slater at The Good Oil:
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Or rather, how they’ve slunk away into the shadows, tails between their legs, refusing to face the music for the chaos they unleashed on New Zealand.
We’re talking about the gutless quartet of Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins, Grant Robertson and Ayesha Verrall, the self-appointed saviours who locked us down like prisoners in our own homes, blew through $66 billion of our hard-earned cash, wrecked families, shattered lives, obliterated jobs and businesses and shoved mandates down our throats for an experimental gene therapy that has proved neither safe nor effective.
And now, when it’s time to answer for their sins at the Covid-19 Royal Commission Inquiry’s public hearings, they’ve all chickened out. Cowards, the lot of them.
Let’s start with Chris Hipkins, the current Labour leader and former Covid-19 Response Minister, who’s decided that showing up would be too much hassle. His excuses are pathetic. He claims it would set a precedent for former ministers to appear and answer for their actions and might expose him to a barrage of abuse. Well, Chris, if not now, then when?
You’ve got the gall to whine about precedents when your government set one for trampling civil liberties like they were yesterday’s rubbish. You stood at that so-called Podium of Truth every day at 1pm, preaching at us, breaching our rights and stomping on our freedoms, and now you’ve lawyered up with some fancy global firm like Dentons to dodge scrutiny.
The cowardice is palpable, and you want us to trust you at the next election? What’s hiding behind that smarmy grin, eh?
Then there’s Dame Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister who’s too busy jet-setting around the world to bother with accountability back home. She’s declined the request to appear, offering up some lame assurance that she’s cooperated in private with a three-hour interview and is available for more if needed. Private? That’s rich coming from the woman who invaded our living rooms daily with her sanctimonious lectures.
She made decisions that separated families at borders, banned the unvaccinated from society and enforced lockdowns that drove people to despair. Yet when the inquiry wants her in public, she vanishes like a ghost. Judith Collins nailed it: gutless and hypocritical.
Ardern’s spokesperson blathers on about supporting the commission, but actions speak louder. She’s treating Kiwis with disdain, as if we’re not worthy of seeing her squirm under real questions.
Don’t forget Grant Robertson and Ayesha Verrall, the dynamic duo of fiscal folly and health hysteria. Robertson, now lounging as vice-chancellor at Otago University, and Verrall, Labour’s health spokesperson, have also hit back at claims they’re avoiding the inquiry.
They insist they’ve provided extensive evidence in private, with Verrall boasting that the commissioners ran out of questions early. Oh, please. David Seymour rightly branded them lockdown overlords, pointing out how they loved the spotlight during the pandemic but now scamper away when accountability calls.
These are the folks who approved sacking unvaccinated workers, closed our schools and fuelled inflation with their reckless spending spree. They wielded extraordinary powers, dismissed critics as heartless, yet refuse to front up. Winston Peters called it collusion, turning the Podium of Truth into the Podium of Evasion. Spot on.
David Farrar over at Kiwiblog sums it up perfectly in his post The Covid Cowards: these politicians stopped Kiwis from returning home, made leaving your house illegal without permission, banned the unjabbed from everyday life and squandered billions, all while claiming it was evidence-based.
In the UK, leaders like Boris Johnson faced their inquiry publicly. Here? Our lot hides behind conventions and fears of tampering with recordings. If they’re so worried about abuse, maybe they shouldn’t have abused their power in the first place.
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| Inquiry chair Illingworth KC explicitly stated he would not use his powers of summons |
The inquiry chair, Grant Illingworth, is disappointed but won’t summon them, saying they’re cooperating privately. Cooperating? That’s code for controlling the narrative away from public eyes. Tens of thousands of Kiwis shared their heart-wrenching stories of upended lives, missed births and denied farewells to dying loved ones. They deserve better than this evasion. Chris Bishop hits the nail: Hipkins is running from his record.
These former ministers breached our trust, forced on us an unproven jab with questionable efficacy and now cower from questions. The $66 billion hole in our economy? The mental health crisis? The divided society? All on their watch. Yet they lawyer up and skulk away, claiming it’s performative. No, performative was your daily pressers and gaslighting us into submission.
New Zealanders won’t forget this betrayal. If Hipkins thinks he can lead Labour back to power while dodging scrutiny, he’s dreaming. What’s he hiding? What’s Ardern afraid of? The truth, that’s what. Their cowardice stinks, and it’s time we held them accountable, precedent or not. Gutless doesn’t begin to cover it.goodoil.news/the-covid-cowa
"Every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted"
- Gospel, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
ReplyDeleteGreat writing Julia du Fresne - thank you