AT HER AFTERNOON press conference yesterday Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern played politics as she admonished the Leader of the Opposition, Judith
Collins, for wanting to play politics with the Covid-19 virus . 'Can't we all unite?' see asked plaintively having already made some less than complimentary remarks about Collins.
It wasn't exactly a great attempt at team building, if it was ever was intended to be one. While the daily press conferences, as they were during the lockdown,
are useful in providing the public with up-to-date information, they are also a vehicle for Ardern to hog the limelight. Its little wonder the opposition are cynically asking why the Minister of Health, Chris Hipkins, isn't
fronting the conferences rather than the Prime Minister.
And its become somewhat of a thorny issue with an election drawing nearer and Ardern's rebuke of Collins will have only incensed National even more. The
obvious problem is that Jacinda Ardern told her own election campaign opening that the election was 'all about Covid-19'. So having told the country that she was up to fighting the election on the Covid-19 battleground she's
apparently only prepared to do that if Collins rolls over and plays dead. Ardern seems to want to have her cake and eat it too.
But with both main political parties committed to market-led ideology and policies, it's hardly surprising that mainstream politics has descended to the level of a personality slugfest. Meanwhile, out in the real world, the economy continues to disintegrate and people are really suffering...
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