Labour govt 2020-23

[Panda-NZ-]

Imagine that and the Minister of foreign affairs arriving somewhere as NZ's delegation.

Jacinda (tm) will be fronting up for team NZ.

Much better than an international nobody.

[Joshuatree]

About As shallow as it gets rating someone on their appearance.

[Getty]

Don't worry team.

All will be balanced, once Jacinda gets a WINZ barcode tattoo on her chin, to match Ms Mahuta.

[couta1]

Don't worry team.

All will be balanced, once Jacinda gets a WINZ barcode tattoo on her chin, to match Ms Mahuta.

She's already barcoded by the WEF, her soul is gone.

[westerly]

[QUOTE=Balance;948778]More to the point, can you imagine Cindy at 45 without her make up and looking even more like a nag than she already is now?

[https://theconversation.com/from-pre...-ardern-179094

The last paragraph says it all.

westerly

[Blue Skies]

Funny post Blue Skies. Look at the current FM and PM. Both completely inexperienced and yes it shows. Nicola will do well as our next FM, with Andrew Bayley by her side hopefully.

Inexperienced compared to 2nd term Nicola Willis & 1st term Luxon who have not even been ministers! You've got to be kidding!

Not sure if anything at this stage will make you reconsider, but Jacinda Adern was a senior policy advisor to the UK cabinet during the Iraq war, is on excellent terms with & highly regarded by Angela Merkel & given & welcomed with full military honours on her visit to Germany & has met the current present President Olaf Scholz, highly regarded by French President Macron, Canada PM Justin Trudeau, was given full military welcome by China's President Xi Jinping, excellent terms with ex Japanese PM Shinzo Abe & met current PM Fumio Kishida, hosted and met with most world leaders via virtual summits including President Biden, addressed the UN General Assembly, & could pick up the phone & talk to many world leaders. Has been in parliament since 2008, in 3rd term as PM, has dealt with the Christchurch massacre, White Island tragedy, a world pandemic. You could go on and on.

And you think a 2nd term MP, Nicolla Willis who until fairly recently 2020 was 48 on National list moving to 13 on list in 2020 election but losing WLG Central to Grant Robertson is experienced enough & invisible Andrew Bayley who 9 out of 10 Kiwi's haven't heard of.
No disrespect but its laughable to suggest they are in the same league.

With the world in the most precarious position since WW2 & the very real threat of Putin launching a nuclear strike or chemical warfare starting WW3, a human catastrophe with millions of refugees pouring into Western Europe, energy shortages, food shortages, disruptions to supplies of everything from medicines to precious metals, rampant inflation in many western countries, personally I don't think National who are making so many mistakes even in opposition are nearly ready for govt.
Luxon didn't even know the correct tax bands, & the other day Luxon & Chris Bishop turned up to support a business where the owner danced in his underpants at the Parliament anti-vax, anti-mandate, anti-govt protest where they threw bricks at the police & set fire to the place. Wow!

[Panda-NZ-]

Luxon didn't even know the correct tax bands, & the other day Luxon & Chris Bishop turned up to support a business where the owner danced in his underpants at the Parliament anti-vax, anti-mandate, anti-govt protest where they threw bricks at the police & set fire to the place. Wow!

They probably reckon 50c per day in a tax cut is a game changer too.

[iceman]

Glad you have so much repsect for the PM and faith in her ability Blue Skies. Remember she had never been a Minister before Winnie promoted her to PM in return for his $billions into the Provisional Growth Fund.
I don´t care which World leaders have welcomed her and by the way, I don´t hold Maron and Trudeau in particularly high esteem. Merkel was very competent but she´s history now.
I just look at what our PM has achieved (or not achieved) as PM and am seriously underwhelmed.

Your arguement about inexperience was also used against John Key, so holds little water as far as I am concerned.

[iceman]

Jacinda will be fronting up for team NZ..

In Barcelona ?

[Panda-NZ-]

I don´t care which World leaders have welcomed her and by the way, I don´t hold Maron and Trudeau in particularly high esteem. Merkel was very competent but she´s history now.

Yes she was quite competent in weakening Europe through unnecessary austerity, closing down nuclear energy and generally being a Putin sympathiser.