Jacindamania the Documentary

Jacindamania the Documentary

The New Zealand Film Commission is putting $800,000 of taxpayer’s money towards a documentary about former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern.

In a statement the Film Commission said the documentary explores the rise of violent extremism and online hate in New Zealand, while covering Dame Jacinda's leadership.

The documentary explores the rise of violent extremism and online hate in New Zealand, following Jacinda Ardern's leadership trajectory as an example of how these forces played out through one of the most tumultuous periods in modern times.

In 2007, Jacinda became the second woman ever elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, the world's largest international political youth organisation.

Over her term as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has risen to international stardom based on reporting by world media outlets.

She became Prime Minister at the age of 37 and was one of the world’s first millennials to head a government. She was the second world leader to give birth in office after Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan.

If we were to solely rely on the international media reports of her achievements we would believe that she was a super star on the stage of politics both in NZ and across the world but in fact if you closely study her list of achievements as leader of the Labour government (the first government under MMP to be elected with an absolute majority), you soon see that the list of achievements is very short and in fact far outweighed by her list of failures.

It is my opinion that Jacinda Ardern’s government has done more harm to NZ’s democratic systems of government than any and all of the preceding governments going back to the beginning.

This documentary will record a period of New Zealand's history and was presented by the Commission at Cannes Film Festival in May 2023 to potential international partners, under the name Jacindamania.

In total it is expected the documentary will cost $3.2 million to make and is scheduled to go into production in 2024, and to be released in August 2025.

Ardern cited child poverty as her reason for entering politics and when she first ran for Prime Minister, she declared climate change was her ‘generation’s nuclear free moment’.

Yet on both of those issues she has failed comprehensively. All the child poverty statistics are much worse and her climate change commitments are a sad joke.

The Labour government in 2021 made an extraordinary commitment to an NDC (Nationally-determined Contribution) which promised not only to reduce New Zealand’s emissions by 47 Mt during 2021-2030 but also to buy 143 Mt of foreign carbon credits at the same time.

That absurd extra pledge to buy carbon credits; which was priced at $23 billion (but will probably be 50% higher) – comes with a potential liability that has been described as “a staggering sum” for New Zealand.

Her Labour government set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture as part of its overall effort to reduce New Zealand’s emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

Given the effects on our primary income source (agricultural exports), particularly in the light of the UNFCCC declaration in November 2022 which stated that their predictions around climate change were in fact wrong and that they were reducing their predicted climate warming numbers by 50%, this decision was madness.

“The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced that it accepted research showed climate change was expected to reach just 2.5°C – only half as much as the mainstream media had long assumed.

Research has confirmed the carbon footprint of New Zealand beef and lamb is amongst the lowest in the world. A comprehensive study by AgResearch found that a kilo of New Zealand sheep meat had a carbon footprint of just under 15 kilograms (kgs) of CO2 equivalent emissions per kilo.

Meanwhile, the carbon footprint of New Zealand beef is just under 22kgs – making the country’s red meat among the most efficient in the world.

The researchers compared New Zealand’s on-farm emissions to a range of countries’ footprints across the globe, and concluded that when Kiwi beef or sheep meat is exported, the total carbon footprint is lower or very similar to domestically-produced red meat in those nations.

They concluded that this was because New Zealand was so efficient at the farm level, which represents about 90-95 per cent of the total carbon footprint. New Zealand’s on-farm footprint was about half the average of the other countries in the study.

As the world’s second-biggest exporter of lamb and one of the largest beef exporters, sustainable farming is a critical part of NZ’s red meat sector strategy.

The Labour government had made decisions that would have seen sheep and beef farming decimated on the altar of incorrect information regards climate change; with sheep and beef reduced by 20% and dairying by 5%. This is equivalent to the entire wine industry and half of the seafood industry being wiped out.

New Zealand’s economy relies on agricultural exports for the majority of our income yet we had a Labour government that was determined to knowingly penalise agriculture for its greenhouse gas emissions even when it was proved that the statistics they were basing their decisions on, were wrong, and the effects from farming were not as severe as had been stated.

They took this action even though the Paris Accord clearly stated under article 2, that actions to combat climate change should not affect food production.

Ardern basically shut down the coal mining industry in New Zealand (supposedly to eliminate the use of fossil fuelled energy) and then sat and watched as we imported millions of tonnes of dirty coal from Indonesia, so that we could keep the lights on without saying a word.

I cannot think of a major policy from her election manifestos that was not a failure. She told us she would make houses more affordable; yet their costs have risen so high that first home owners cannot even hope to buy let alone actually be able to “afford” to buy in the current market.

She promised us 100,000 Kiwi-build homes, but actually only succeeded in sacking her Minister after his failing so spectacularly, in fact her government made a habit of failure after bold promises, over its terms in office.

In early 2019, she said that she would promote a new ‘economics of kindness’ which was demonstrated shortly afterwards in her first ‘well-being budget’. We all saw the results of that budget (for example it earmarked $900 million in funds to fix mental health, but her government could not find any projects in the first twelve months, on which to spend the money).

Jacinda Ardern showed great expertise in communications which was not surprising considering that she attended the University of Waikato, graduating in 2001 as a Bachelor of Communication Studies in politics and public relations, a specialist three-year degree.

She was making almost daily TV appearances throughout the coronavirus crisis and this huge level of exposure on almost a daily basis in the run up to the 2020 election must have been of immense help in promoting her government leading up to that election.

In the 2020 election campaign, she should have struggled to explain why her governments promises had failed, but no one asked any accountability questions and she was elected with an absolute majority based on the public perception of her image.

The gap between people’s impression of her leadership and her actual performance as a leader widened appreciably after the election and the people of New Zealand started demanding accountability for the government promises that failed.

She promised the people of New Zealand that she would provide the most open and transparent government and at one time even stated they were the one source of truth and we should only believe the government.

Overall the truth was not quite so rosy though because when you looked at the government’s statistics, on practically every single metric her administration had failed.

Child poverty levels rose markedly along with carbon emissions. The gun buy-back scheme implemented after the Christchurch mosque attack was nothing short of an expensive PR disaster that actually achieved very little in real results.

Since again taking power after the 2020 election, with an absolute majority, she assumed unprecedented additional powers most under the pretext of protecting our health.

Her government introduced a bill under which they proposed a separate Health system for Maori managed by Maori and with the power of veto over all health board funding throughout New Zealand and then pushed this through parliament under urgency to achieve enactment before the 2023 election.

New Zealanders have always prided themselves on being an inclusive multi-racial society. Yet under Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government the country was being driven down a path of separatism with our society divided by race based on a factually incorrect interpretation of Treaty of Waitangi documentation.

Her government many times stated that we have a partnership requirement with Iwi, under the Treaty of Waitangi but in actual fact this was just another lie from her government.

The claims of a partnership between Maori and the Crown are not supported by any of the documentation of the Treaty although this latter-day reinterpretation of the Treaty was simply stated as a fact, without any acknowledgement that the assertion was hotly contested, was flatly contradicted by many of the speeches recorded by Colenso in writing at the time (on 5 February 1840) and flatly contradicted also by speeches made by numerous chiefs at Kohimarama in 1860.

In relation to the question of a partnership it was explained by that prominent leader respected by Pakeha & Maori alike, ‘The Hon Sir Apirana Ngata -M.A. LLB. LIT.D’

(THE TREATY OF WAITANGI   - an explanation published in 1922)

The acclaimed Maori Leader Sir Apirana Ngata explains the intent in the pages of this book, the "Treaty of Waitangi". He concludes with the words: "The Treaty made the one law for the Maori and Pakeha. If you think these things are wrong and bad then blame our ancestors who gave away their rights in the days when they were powerful".

We have just recently celebrated the 40^th anniversary of the 1981 South African Springbok tour of New Zealand, an event that deeply divided our nation.

More than 150,000 people took to the streets to protest against sporting contact with South Africa, a country that defined and divided its people by race/colour through a formal system of Apartheid established in 1948.

There were many protests over the years demanding that New Zealand stop all sporting contact with South Africa (particularly Rugby), until apartheid was abandoned.

But Ardern’s government attempted to implement this same odious race based system of apartheid into New Zealand by elevating Maori (12.6% of the total population in the 2018 census) to the status of a ruling class through their interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi giving Maori a 50/50 partnership/co-governance role.

Another claimed justification for making these race based decisions to elevate Maori to a ruling class was NZ’s obligations after the signing of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Jacinda Ardern’s government commissioned a report which she claimed was about developing a strategy to fulfil our obligations under that declaration. Jacinda Ardern stated that the report titled “He Puapua” was an advisory document but this was at best a disingenuous statement as parts of that document had already been enacted and as such it was the beginning of division of our country based on race (Apartheid any way you look at it).

Part of the He Puapua report defined the pathway to achieve Maori sovereignty by 2040 and the implementation of parts of that report which had been done in secret without any public referendum or mandate other than their victory in the 2020 election would not stand up to close public scrutiny.

This report was kept secret even from her coalition partner (New Zealand First) before the 2020 election and was eventually only released after a full copy was leaked to news media outlets and published. This was another example of her most open and transparent government at work!

This was the same Open and Transparent Government that set up the $55 million “Public Interest Journalism Fund”. We were told it was to help the media deal with the effects of Covid, but like lots of other decisions, the devil was in the detail.

When it was analysed it was seen as just another prop under Prime Minister Ardern’s government attempts to divide New Zealand on the basis of race, given the requirements for recipients from the fund, to promote the government’s position in regard to their current interpretation of the Treaty documents.

Under condition three of the document, all fund recipients were required to “Actively promote the principles of Partnership, Participation and Active Protection under Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledging Māori as a Te Tiriti partner”.

The Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz resigned over allegations that he had used public money to buy favourable media coverage for his party’s policies.
In regard to the “Public Interest Journalism Fund” there was a direct link between funding and the promotion of Government policy. Did this not equate to corruption of the media by government? At the very least it effectively meant that the media had been silenced by the Labour government. 

Another example of the openness and transparency of the Labour government, being when a number of government ministers stated that they were proud to be quoted as being socialists but this was something they had never mentioned prior to the election, but then again maybe we should have expected that type of conduct as they were trying to win an election and at that time honesty, openness or transparency in election manifestos is not really required by politicians; IS IT?

Justified by these false assumptions and fabrications around the Treaty, democracy was being sacrificed.

Ardern’s government also assumed a large range of powers and made a lot of decisions that were claimed to have been required in response to the coronavirus pandemic but in fact this claim is very hard to justify, especially when you look at the government’s actions after the 2020 election, in regard to the pandemic and our responses to it.

With those powers they instituted the lockdowns on the basis of stopping the spread of Covid 19 and protecting health. New Zealand was told that they had gone early and gone fast and that it was all going to prevent the overloading of our hospitals and their ICU capacities.

We were told that the health system did not have the capacity to handle a large increase in the numbers that would be presenting to ICU if we did not have the lockdowns in place and while this in itself may have been quite true, the government failed to take action to ensure that the health system was upgraded to cope with the expected demand.

Jacinda Ardern resigned from her position as Prime Minister in early 2023 and one of the things arising out of her shock resignation was the huge amount of commentary around the public perception of her time as PM and about how well she had performed in the position.

There has been much discussion about the volume of hate against Ardern and that a lot of that hate was due to her gender.

Well I may have been different from the majority but I have no problem in confirming that I had no time for her policies or in fact her performance in the position, but that had nothing to do with her gender or race.

I couldn’t have cared less about whether she was black, white or brindle or whether she was female, male or couldn’t make up her mind which; but I certainly did not support her decisions as leader of the Labour government.

In my honest opinion for what it’s worth I believe that she did more damage to New Zealand and its population in her term as Prime Minister than any other PM in history. Her decisions and party politics had been anti-democratic & divisive and failed to engender support from the majority of Kiwis as evidenced by their loss in the 2023 general election.

The corruption of New Zealand’s democratic systems of government in favour of a race based co-governance model that was implemented by the Labour government was the main reason that the Labour government went from being the first government under MMP to gain a simple majority at a general election, to losing almost 50% of its support in just one term of office.

Of course, it wasn’t just Labour’s popularity that was plummeting – Ardern herself was losing supporters as well as creating more opponents amongst the public. Pollsters regularly ask the public about whether they have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of individual politicians.

The net favourables for Ardern – that is, favourable polling numbers minus unfavourable polling numbers – were extremely high for Ardern in her early years of power, she spent the first two years at between +40% and +60% which is massive.

However, this shifted into the negative for the first time in 2022 when we saw the net favourability decline to +4% mid-year, rebound to +12% and then embark on a gradual decline until she hit -1% in the Taxpayers’ Union’s Curia poll in late 2022.

Jacinda Ardern when she was elected to government claimed that she wanted to focus on kindness and stated that her government would be the most open and transparent we have ever had. But in actual fact the opposite was seen to be the truth of the matter given the actions of her government since that time.

Her government was seen as severely lacking in kindness when they locked down the country as a result of the Covid pandemic and refused to let all NZ citizens return home despite their rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights; yet they were able in this same period to find a reason to allow professional sports persons and DJ’s to come here for commercial gain.

There were NZ citizens having children born overseas because they had failed to secure a place in the lottery called managed quarantine, and those children in some cases will not be able to claim citizenship in the country of their parents due to this decision to lock their parents out of their home country. So much for the claims of kindness in government!

The Managed Quarantine included a lottery where passport holders had to apply online to see whether they would be allocated space in the quarantine areas to allow them to return home, although in the same time period the government managed to find a reason to allow professional sports persons and DJ’s to come here for commercial gain.

Her government promised that it would not be compulsory to have the vaccinations for Covid 19 yet they then went on to make them mandatory and forced people to either accept the vaccination or give up their employment; Even though this was proven in one court case to be illegal.

The unvaccinated were in many cases shell-shocked that they lost jobs as paramedics, pharmacists, police officers and even vets simply for exercising their right to bodily autonomy as was guaranteed under the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

Despite the well-documented failures of the Labour government — whether in health, law and order, education or homelessness — it was extraordinarily successful in one particular area. That is the stealthy insertion of an interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi as a “partnership” — manifested as co-governance — into a broad swathe of New Zealand law and policy.

The meaning of the 1840 Treaty exists in the Articles. Article I recognised British sovereignty. Article II recognised the rights of Māori to hold or dispose of property. Article III recognised Māori as British subjects.

Up until the Labour government came into power in 2017, NZ had one of the oldest democracy’s in the world with the adoption of universal suffrage in 1893 and the changes Labour made by going to race based co-governance systems did more harm to NZ than any other government in history through dividing the population on ethnic identity and breaking down the trust in our democratic systems of government. 

This documentary is said to explore the rise of violent extremism and online hate in New Zealand, following Jacinda Ardern's leadership trajectory as an example of how these forces played out through one of the most tumultuous periods in modern times.

Given all of the above it is no surprise that there has been a surge in extremism and online hate when you consider the drive from the Labour government lead by Jacinda Ardern; towards a country divided by ethnicity.

After the 2020 election, without mentioning their intentions, Labour ministers set out deliberately to give Maori greater rights in New Zealand than all other ethnicities, using the full resources of the state to do it; to hell with Article Three of the Treaty guaranteeing equal rights and duties for all.  

One of Labour’s most despicable actions was to betray the trust of New Zealanders by imposing an unmandated constitutional reform agenda after the 2020 election, which had been kept deliberately hidden from voters. Their plan was to replace one of the longest-standing and most successful democracies in the world with tribal rule.

Their policies supported separation into two people: the minority ‘indigenous’ Maori, and all the others, who are second-class citizens. This division is by race: in legislation, where any drop of Maori ancestry, no matter how little, placed a person into that privileged group.

They advocated for separate rights, which were constantly being added to so that the division was increasingly absolute; different and vastly unequal voting rights, many specified special powers over the sea, rivers, lakes, mountains – and all water systems, different education and health systems, different rights in law, where the old tribal tikanga was given special status.”

Without informing the public of the significance of their He Puapua master plan, they downplayed and disguised the transfer of power to iwi separatists.

All of these actions have contributed hugely to the increase in online hate and extremism with much of this exacerbated by the inability of the citizens of New Zealand to promote an opposition viewpoint without being labelled as racists, and also by the mainstream media refusing to print any opposing views to the government position.

This is blatantly described in the video from GB News 

 where the presenter Dan Wootton talking about her resignation, states that Jacinda Ardern is largely hated in New Zealand now and his co-presenter Dominique Samuels states that the media in New Zealand were guilty of spreading misinformation on behalf of Ardern’s government and called for accountability.

Whilst you may disagree with me I firmly believe that it was the actions of the labour government lead by Jacinda Ardern (particularly in relation to their race based legislative changes) that were directly responsible for the marked increase in extremism and online hate speech.

It amazes me that a committed socialist such as Jacinda Ardern, with a dismal record of policy failures, should first of all be offered a royal honour and secondly that she would accept it when the whole idea of the honours system seems to be anathema to the socialist ideals which she promoted as President of the International Union of Socialist Youth.