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Zero Covid Zealot Jacinda Arden Cancels Wedding, Imposes Mini-Lockdown and Insists on a 24-Day Isolation Period After New Zealand Recorded 84 New Covid Cases on Saturday

by Toby Young
23 January 2022 2:56 PM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has cancelled her wedding as her Government imposes new restrictions to slow the community spread of the Omicron variant. Reuters has more

New Zealand will impose mask rules and limit gathering from midnight on Sunday after a cluster of nine COVID-19 Omicron cases showed community spread from the North to South islands after a wedding.

A family returned to Nelson in the South Island by plane after attending a wedding and other events in Auckland in the North Island. The family and a flight attendant tested positive.

New Zealand will move to a red setting under its COVID-19 protection framework, with more mask wearing. Indoor hospitality settings such as bars and restaurants and events like weddings will be capped at 100 people. The limit is lowered to 25 people if venues are not using vaccine passes, Arden said.

“My wedding will not be going ahead,” she told reporters, adding she was sorry for anyone caught up in a similar scenario. Ardern had not disclosed her wedding date, but it was rumoured to be imminent.

Asked by reporters how she felt about the cancellation of her wedding to longtime partner and fishing-show host Clarke Gayford, Ardern replied: “Such is life.”

She added, “I am no different to, dare I say it, thousands of other New Zealanders who have had much more devastating impacts felt by the pandemic, the most gutting of which is the inability to be with a loved one sometimes when they are gravely ill. That will far, far outstrip any sadness I experience.”

New Zealand’s borders have been shut to foreigners since March 2020. The government pushed back plans for a phased reopening from mid-January to the end of February out of concern about a potential Omicron outbreak as in neighbouring Australia.

People able to travel to New Zealand under narrow exceptions must apply to stay at state-managed quarantine facilities. The government last week stopped issuing any new slots amid a surge in the number of people arriving with Omicron.

About 94% of New Zealand’s population over the age of 12 is fully vaccinated and about 56% of those eligible have had booster shots.

According to MailOnline, New Zealand will make household contacts of Covid cases isolate for 24 days.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has brought in the strict measures as the country battles to stay Covid Zero despite the threat of the highly contagious mutant strain.

But critics say the lengthy quarantine period is ‘unworkable’ and will lead people to avoid getting tested.

Anyone infected with Covid is now required to isolate for 14 days, up from 10 days under the new interim rules.

Household contacts must then stay in quarantine for a further 10 days, stretching the time alone out to three and a half weeks.

Jacinda Arden is behaving like a character in a Don’t Look Up-style satire about the absurd lengths Zero Covid fanatics will go to avoid abandoning their crackpot agenda. Ninety-four per cent of the over-12s vaccinated and the toothy tyrant still won’t give them their freedom back.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: New ZealandZero Covid

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ziggee
ziggee
3 years ago

Madder than a Mad Hatter’s tea party for Mad Hatters.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  ziggee

Masks can serve a useful purpose….

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

The chances are good that masks enabled our Crazy Jacinda to trick someone into agreeing to wed her in the first place.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  ziggee

This one is a truly dangerous nutjob. It makes one appreciate the hypocrisy of Boris Johnson. There is so much comfort in knowing our leaders don’t really believe any of the nonsense and are just playing a game. They’ll stop if they’re exposed enough.

This crazy bitch is a true believer. If she were one of those radical mullahs, she’d be strapping on the TNT with the rest of the suicide bombers.

Can you imagine what a hell hole Britain would be if Boris Johnson believed what this woman believes?

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Offspring of Blare and Schwab.. so its not surprising..

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

She isa Pupil of Schwab and a former assistant to Blair – what do we expect?

Mental illness spread by the über – rich is sweep/ing the plaent

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Good points but Johnson is a globalist with 15 million committed resistors and rising to contend with, so he has to tread more carefully. On the other hand, Arden only has 400,000 resistors, so she can operate with free abandon.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

To cornubian.

Further to your comment yesterday about government imposing their will incrementally, sacking unvaxxed healthcare workers, “boiling frogs”.

Some years ago my city local authority announced swingeing new ‘resident only’ parking restrictions to a howl of protest in the local press.
To their credit The Council said the would launch democratic peoples referendums (referenda if you like) in the 10 affectected arrears which they duly did.

Each of those areas voted overwhelmingly against the proposals, on a turnout greater than most local council elections. The Council graciously accepted the results while noting ‘a few local hotspots’ demanding parking controls.

Over the course of the next 10-15 years they implemented small aspects of their overall plan, bit by bit, half a street at a time (but in 10 different areas at each time) so not enough people noticed to kick up a sufficient howl of renewed protest.

Within 10-15 years the entire initial programme had been implemented in full yet residents still believed their Caring Sharing Local Government had bowed to local Democracy.

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Gefion
Gefion
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Clever them, eh? Perhaps they’d had lessons from the Nudge Unit. Softly, softly, catch the monkey … We had similar with a cycling lane on the main road and now the cyclists won’t even have to use it!

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arany madar
arany madar
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Except that she was laughing when her government approved the holding of orgies some months back. So she doesn’t believe any of her own guff. Shejust gives a more convincing impression of believing it.

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  ziggee

Or, as Blackadder put it: ‘… madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year’s “Mr. Madman” competition.’

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  ziggee

And if her fiancee had any sense s/he’d take this oportunity to do a runner

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

Can we (whoever we are) start our own annual Anti-Davos summit? I feel resistance to the new authoritarianism needs to be focussed on the shenanigans of the Davos crowd (such as the reprehensible individual pictured above) and might be a good way to cast light on their many insidious agendas.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Ah shit, I’ve just remembered none of us can fly anywhere.

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Lister of Smeg
Lister of Smeg
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Maybe it can be held in Blackpool or some other seaside town that has taken a big hit from lost trade over the last 2 years due to the Coof.

I wonder what the odds would be if the DAVOS (I just wish they’d be honest and rename the organisation to S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) lot Would all congregate in one place and that errant meteorite that keeps narrowly missing us (but is always reported on by the MSM) hits wherever they are. Just a little one would do the trick…

(satire, lawyers, just in case you were wondering)

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

I’m all for giving Blackpool a much needed boost to its ailing economy. But have had too many dreadful childhood Pleasure Beach memories to be enthusiastic about it. It needs to be Alpine really for proper Bond villain vibes.
As for the meteorite. Gosh. That would be awful wouldn’t it.

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scaredmama
scaredmama
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

Am I alone in misreading the name DAVOS as Davros?

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  scaredmama

Yes: Davros was a misunderstood, benevolent machine-god compared to DAVOS.

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Nitrambo
Nitrambo
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

Where is Sean Connery when you need him.

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artfelix
artfelix
3 years ago

They were only unable to be with gravely ill loved ones because of you, you moronic horse-faced cunt!

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Whats your problem mate? She and Billy no Mates are doing their very best to prevent people from getting the sniffles…

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Lister of Smeg
Lister of Smeg
3 years ago

84 cases (it WOULD have to be 84) in one day – woooo! There’s more cases in my sparsely-opulated part of the Home Counties, and we ain’t dropping like flies. Arden may as well just rename NZ as a province of China, given she already sucks up to Xi so much anyway.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

The problem with fanatics is that they aren’t completely without logic.

If you are going for zero-covid, that’s the way to do it.

The problem isn’t the method, the problem is the goal.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

Anyone who has been to New Zealand and seen the old cars there, may think of it more as an ‘antipodian Cuba’.
Definitely Communist now, with ‘Gnashers’ doing China’s bidding.

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optocarol
optocarol
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

When were you last in NZ, I’m wondering?

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lorrinet
lorrinet
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

I was last in NZ in 1975! My husband was in the Merchant Navy and as an officer’s wife I travelled round the world with him on general cargo vessels for two years. It was amazing, we went to so many places, on every continent.

I particularly loved NZ; we were there twice, both islands, and I was able to visit my family members in Auckland. I remember the fantastic milk shakes (a daily treat), and the pie-carts which seemed to be everywhere, with delicious burgers. My cousin tells me they went long ago thanks to ‘elf ‘n safety. Unbelievable.

We came quite close when our children were young to moving there (sponsored by my aunt and uncle), but in the end couldn’t bear to leave England. We are so glad now that we didn’t go. How sad it is that that pantomime horse is dragging down such a wonderful young country with her insane and impossible ‘zero covid’ policy, same as that thing in Oz. In the end covid’s going to sweep through just like everywhere else, the only difference being that she’ll have so prolonged the agony it’s doubtful they’ll ever recover.

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mwhite
mwhite
3 years ago

It’s high summer in New Zealand at the moment.
I think they could be in for a bit of a shock when their winter gets going.

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DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

Imagine having cut yourself off from the flow of germs that primes your immune system, aided by tons of foreign travelers. Now imagine when they come back. The whole nation will be out sick…with non-threatening viruses. Sort of like…now.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

It’s going to be spectacularly funny to watch how these zero-covid looney farms get themselves out of the hole they’ve dug themselves into.

The moment they interact with the rest of the world, all their jabbots are going to test positive. I suppose they’ll claim the jabs are saving them from otherwise certain death.

But still, they’re going to have to drop the zero-covid or live as prisoners for ever.

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

apparently if you dunk her in a river for 10 minutes and she comes up alive she is definitely a witch, otherwise she was probably a witch

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Make it twenty minutes – just to be sure! If she comes up alive – put her back for another twenty.

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Old Bill
Old Bill
3 years ago

Is she marrying the Austrian Chancellor? They would be a good match.

Together they could create the ‘Peoples Republic of Covidistan’.

Only another world war can end this madness, at least Boris and Sleepy Joe are doing their best to start one.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

Great post.

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Have to say… to the usual suspects posting here… and many others too a BIG thanks for making me almost spit my tea out through my nose….reading so many brilliant witty posts… :))

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
3 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

What a day, when we actually consider the Russians to be our potential saviours..!

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I live in Russia and have noticed the hysteria over Ukraine seems to increase based on how much the official western narrative unravels. Russia has never yet fully signed up to the covid Madness and I sometimes think that is a likely explanation for increasing western hostility and anti-russian propaganda.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

They need an enemy to cover for the US Meltdown under Senile Joe!

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artfelix
artfelix
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Old Putin seems to be a fan of the vax passes though?

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Well, Putin has consistently said that he does not favour coercion and that “vaccination” should be voluntary.

That being said, there are many shadowy forces at work in Russia and some that work directly against Putin.

However, the draft law for vax passes in Moscow just got cancelled, quite possibly after intervention by Putin. And in parts of Russia where vax passes have been implemented, they have simply created a very competitive black market for vax passes. As they say in Russia – there’s always a way.

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dopamineboy
dopamineboy
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Only about 36% of Russians have been fully vaccinated, maybe they don’t trust the Sputnik V?

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  dopamineboy

No, they don’t trust it. I’ve heard uptake is closer to 50-60%, but I’m confident that is falsified data.

And FWIW, a vax pass is also granted for 1 year if you have acquired natural immunity through previous infection.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Nah, covid is a distraction. It’s the same geo-politics of the last 200 years.

Russia is just pushing NATO back now that it is weak and dysfunctional. The west is yapping a lot like a very annoying but not at all scary dog. Russia is going to carve out a few more bits of the Ukraine and NATO is going to do f. all about it. The yapping is posturing, for the plebs. They can’t just let the Russians do it and be silent on it.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I think you’re a bit out there.

Russia’s total military budget was cut by 5% in 2021 to $41 billion.

NATO consists of 29 countries, with the US member having a total military budget of $7,000 billion. The UK budget is $655 billion with Germany on $490 billion and so on.

NATO military budget is over 200 times Russia’s military budget.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

But NATO, collectively, has 2000 times less balls than Russia.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Lol spot on and I bet their £s go on bombs and bullets not cunts in offices shuffling paper

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

So what are they doing with 100,000 men on Ukraine’s border, having grabbed loads of land from the them in recent times?

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Yes, well, that is the western propaganda narrative.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

GRU gaslighting, more like.

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Osobowy… interesting to note too… chief of Germany’s navy, vice-admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach has to resign re his showing Putin respect comments…

https://twitter.com/sidhant/status/1484991354329759744?s=20

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

And surely, he was clever enough to know what the consequences of his remarks would be. An interesting development!

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

That doesnt mean Putin is worthy of trust, does it?

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
3 years ago

Well, the BBC have been spot on again with their social campaigns – the Covid debacle has definitely proved that women are better, more liberal and compassionate leaders. Look at the way in which…. ahhh, shit, no that’s not worked well at all

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Get ready for the Great Argument Switch.

Men were supposed to be the aggressive ones and women the gentler sex. Now that it’s going to turn out that women are at least as aggressive as men, we are going to be told that actually being aggressive is a good thing, not at all a bad thing.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

I’m afraid that the BBC probably still insist that she’s better, more liberal and compassionate. That view would probably prevail if she were to cull every third person in NZ.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago

Insanity on steroids.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  CovidiotAntiMasker

Mmmm…it sounds like she woukd have got on well with Magda Goebbels!

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago

The most shocking thing about this is that someone actually WANTS to marry that bat-shit crazy piece of work?!!

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

for the money I expect.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

Or for keeping the grass short.

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
3 years ago

She’s a couple of stops short of West Ham.

(Barking).

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Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
3 years ago

Sigh of relief from Clarke Gayford?

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Hypatia
Hypatia
3 years ago
Reply to  Pete Sutton

Phew, narrow escape……for now!

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barmpot
barmpot
3 years ago

I wonder if the horse-toothed assassins reception was a sit down meal or grazing in a field.

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  barmpot

Continuing the equine theme, I wonder if the blacksmith has given her a new set of shoes for The Big Day? I also hope that the good people of NZ have organised a befitting, durable scold’s bridle for a wedding present.

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JASA
JASA
3 years ago
Reply to  barmpot

It would be a socially distanced event. Everyone would be provided with their own nosebag, which would conveniently double up as a face mask.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  JASA

A full-face mask would improve her!

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Two paper bags?

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  barmpot

Canapés topped with Ivermectin. You can’t be too careful about parasites at your wedding do.

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George L
George L
3 years ago

Please tell me what’s going on under this.. er.. Jacinda ‘persons’ dress.. I need to know.. ha ha.. 😉

https://youtu.be/b7YiFQFk6fc

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mishmash
mishmash
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

“here she comes now, she could not look happier”

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  mishmash

“here she comes now, she could not look happier”

Well she’s obviously equipped to tackle the job..

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barmpot
barmpot
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

Hi-Yo Silver

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

None of what Jacinda Hardon makes sense,

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

The posts underneath are hilarious, I particularly like…. Hell that things swinging all over the place…
Thank you, made me laugh out loud.

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Yeah.. made me laugh too.. ha-ha..

And then there’s a little hoo-ha in the Elysee Palace going on I hear..

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

Rumours persist that Micron is a person of restricted growth. He insists he’s in a depression.

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APC
APC
3 years ago

maybe it’s all a ruse. She’s had second thoughts about the marriage and trashing her country again is useful cover … she’s consulted with Sturgeon to get some moral support and she’s given her the thumbs up.

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mishmash
mishmash
3 years ago
Reply to  APC

Hubby was pleased with the consultation, Sturgeon was his:
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thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is
thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is
3 years ago

I know this is not the politically correct thing to say, but I’ll say it anyway: Why would anyone in his right mind marry this lady?

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is

Lady?

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago
Reply to  thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is

Lady?
Think that’s questionable in more ways than one
https://youtu.be/b7YiFQFk6fc

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

OMG 🤮

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Ceriain
Ceriain
3 years ago
Reply to  thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is

Always having a beer bottle opener handy, saving a walk to the kitchen drawer?

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  thorsteinn@sjonarrond.is

Who cares about being politically correct?

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

Nice little joke in a Berenson email, from someone in the USA, on Twitter.

Question:-“Which city has changed your life the most?”

Answer:- “Wuhan”

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dearieme
dearieme
3 years ago

It’ll all be fine as soon as 110% of the population has been vaccinated, boostered, and boostered again. All football managers know that 110% is the critical figure for winning games.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  dearieme

But its already 415%!

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

Zero Covid.

Zero realism, zero truth, zero pity, zero compassion, zero dissent, zero impurity, zero heresy, zero sin, zero unjabbed, zero tolerance, zero listening, zero discussion, zero trust, zero failure,

Zero success.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Zero life, zero joy.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

The only ‘number’ that multiplied never gives a positive.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Mercy, love…

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

The hermit kingdom

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

“The impact of Scotland’s Covid restrictions on business and hospitality have been “worth it”, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.”

in which case can we see the cost benefit analysis she doesn’t have?

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

Isn’t it remarkable how they never seem to back up those sorts of claims with anything…

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

Considering that the Scottisch nutkob-in-chief is a teetotaler who believes the WHO should really tackle the great public health problem alcohol next, any negative impact Scottish policy has on the Scottish hospitality industry is obviously going to be worth it. One could argue that that’s the only point behind most of it, actually.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

And guess who the other teeto is. Maybe it’s a side-effect (one of the terms they seem to use for other injuries, as it were).

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
3 years ago

On the plus side at least shergar has finally been found after all those years

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milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago

Cases? How many of the ‘cases’ are actually ill? How many are in hospital? How many of those have comorbidities and what is their average age?

Why the continued lack of transparency?

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

Because the idiot proles (that’s you and me, milesahead) are too stupid to understand.

Stop asking stupid questions. The woman’s busy.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

Because it would bring the shit show down

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago

Yes,this whole lockdown / muzzle / vaxx farrago is working so well isn’t it.

Ppssibly Ardern is now immune after Covid recovery as she took the horsepaste to get through it with no complications.

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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
3 years ago

Good job China is covering the bill.

There is no road left here for anyone. Omicron will sweep through and prove that their fantasy was indeed that. Not that the media will report anything of course.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

I stopped thinking facts and reality would have any influence on things back in early April 2020 when it turned out the coronavirus was nowhere near as dangerous as they first made everyone think, and they carried on regardless.

I reached the conclusion that this is what they wanted and they were going to get it and reality was going to play no part in any of it.

Haven’t seen anything so far that changes my mind.

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Amtrup
Amtrup
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes, I used to collect/bookmark and even take notes/memorise the contents of articles full of data about covid cases, infection fatality rates, etc etc etc, but have long since stopped bothering. Somehow the statistics/real numbers of illness, death, etc are not relevant to what’s really going on.

Last edited 3 years ago by Amtrup
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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Exactly the same with me, stewart.

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timsk
timsk
3 years ago

The only plausible explanation I can think of for Ms. Arden’s actions is that it’s a ruse to get out of her marriage as she doesn’t have the cojones to tell her intended she doesn’t want to get hitched.

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  timsk

Oh.. I can assure you.. er.. she certainly has the ‘cojones’ alright.. in the right place too..

https://youtu.be/b7YiFQFk6fc

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Fiona Walker
Fiona Walker
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

But she had a baybeee??

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  Fiona Walker

But did she..????

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DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
3 years ago

Living with Covid? Never heard of it. She was lucky to have an election early in Covid when she seemed competent and a leader. She could moon the entire nation and sit back and laugh, at least for a few years. Sort of like Empress Sturgeon.

I have never been happier to live in England. Yes, Boris is clueless jerk, but…and this pains me to say this…he has in the end done the best job fighting Covid. No, we never needed lockdowns (and one senses he didn’t want them either, but didn’t have the moral courage to say so). We never needed masks. Voluntary vaccination was made available quickly to all who wanted it. We had 4 months of relative normality and he’s telling the Covid nuts to stuff it as of next Thursday. No, far from perfect but look at lockdown Jacinda, mask-addicted Sturgeon and Biden, whatever is going on in the various states of Australia and the end of freedom in France, Spain, Italy and especially Austria and, you realise, it could be so much worse. And would be if we had another PM right now. Not saying he should stay in the job, just saying that right now he’s the least awful leader around.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

I wouldn’t go so far as to describe Johnson’s performance as the ‘best job’ – more that he’s done a slightly less shit job than many of the others (recently because he has a lot of rebellious backbenchers and some awkward party questions to deal with).

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Zactly. He has presided over a Government of lies and tyranny, and eagerly facilitated the jabbing of children with a product known to harm and kill, and whose long term effects are unknown,
No forgiveness. No forgetting.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

She is a feckin idiot

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DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
3 years ago

Imagine owning a small hotel in NZ, having steady business thanks to natural beauty and Lord of the Rings. And then imagine every time you have an ounce of hope that people might travel to your land again crushed like dissident in China. I feel for those people.

Wait a second, they elected her when she was Zero Covid addicted. To those who voted for her (surely not our imaginary hotel owner), congratulations. See you in 2029.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

Exactly. New Zealanders are a masochistic lot. They totally love all this. It indulges their sense of community and nation.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

Does NZ politics have a functioning opposition or are they as useless as Starmer’s lot?

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

This woman is insane, mentally ill and should be removed from office and locked up or NZ is doomed.

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oblong
oblong
3 years ago

This is what it would have been like under Starmer

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

….

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

Lemme guess, surprisingly correct decisions to buy and sell certain stocks at certain times using leverage?

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

I wonder if her wedding dress will match her nose bag?

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

But but but The Guardian told me for two years we should look to New Zealand for how to handle the outbreak of a novel respiratory virus. Surely they didn’t get it wrong?

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

…..

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arany madar
arany madar
3 years ago

For any who haven’t seen it, Quebec TV presenter brainwashing kids into hating and incarcerating the unvaccinated. Ugly stuff:

https://yvymaraey.blogspot.com/2022/01/canadian-tvs-fascist-indoctrination-of.html

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

Welsh may recruit unjabbed NHS workers in England, reports Reichsnews.

Goebbels, Himmler, Bormann, Jodl, and Goring now competing for ‘untermensch’ recruits to build competing monuments to the Fuehrer’s glory.

Snakes on a plane, demons roiling in a pit. Take the covidian pledge to avoid the need for a logic exemption, today!

Last edited 3 years ago by BS665
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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Somebody wants to marry that?

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Some men ‘like it up ’em’, evidently.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Oddly enough, his surname is Gayford, which could just be coincidence.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Well I hope he has a ‘joyful crossing’ into captivity…

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
3 years ago

Holy smoke! What hero would tackle that twisted cow, he would deserve a bloooody medal.
Or the mad house

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

……

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

Cancelled the wedding? But already had the sprog.
This is one confused Kiwi.
On the other hand, she describes herself as a social democrat and a progressive, which is how communists are denoted in NZ, one presumes.

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

………

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

Even though we’re ‘pissing how high?’ and they’ve got the Emperor’s new clothes on…

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago

I won’t make any difference. They’re going to be making news with their caseloads in the coming weeks.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Indeed. A bit like hiding under the kitchen table as the tsunami heads your way.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

With their ‘casedemic’ rather.
I wonder if she got discount for all all those shiny new LFT kits and paper muzzles from her friends up north.

Last edited 3 years ago by Banjones
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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

……..

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Crazy woman, addicted to power

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago

“It begins with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, as he travels to Transylvania. … Harker becomes further concerned when, after he cuts himself while shaving, Dracula lunges at his throat. Soon after, Harker is seduced by three female vampires, from whom he barely escapes.”

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

I worked with a few Kiwis, back in the day. Have lost touch since, so can’t contact them to offer my condolences.

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caravaggio57
caravaggio57
3 years ago

As seen elsewhere.
Who on earth would marry Jacinda?
A NEIGHbour.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

looks like she got cold feet

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago

Clearly she can’t learn from all the evidence we now have. To keep doing things that demonstrably don’t work is the very definition of madness. The lady is seriously ill.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

Of course ”she can’t learn”. It’s not up to HER to ”learn”. She’s a useful idiot – that’s all that’s required. I doubt she’s ill. And I doubt she’s a ”lady”.

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Mike Oxlong
Mike Oxlong
3 years ago

This horse-faced bitch needs a bullet.

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RW
RW
3 years ago

We’re nowhere near out-of-the-woods wrt Zero Covid. Yesterday, the BBC had a lengthy propaganda special how wonderfully the Chinese Corona policies had worked in China. Today, pretty much the first thing I found on the internet was one of those heartbreaking stories about 40 year old, perfectly healthy mother of X who sadlidied from COVID in hospital despite she always fanatically stuck to all The Rules. Instead concluding that The Rules apparently didn’t help her one bit, the final message was Heed this dire warning, underlings! Never break The Rules!

The Scottish nutjob-in-chief has meanwhile turned into a lockdown sceptic (according to this site) who seeks to preserve all the wonderful Chinese public health innovations as good as she can. Her most pressing current concern is N95-respirators for everywhere, for all. Of course, KN95 is fine, too. They don’t need to comply to any standards for as long as their Chinese manfactureres can sell them.

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APC
APC
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

And meanwhile no mention of the FOI bombshell from the ONS that in 2020 and 2021 the total number of deaths from Covid alone was 17,000. That’s right 17,000!!! But no the MSM ignore that, not a mention. Wonder why. The hubris is immense.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago
Reply to  APC

It’s not hubris, it’s intentional.
It’s criminal.
Bring on the lamp posts…

Last edited 3 years ago by Sforzesca
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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
3 years ago
Reply to  APC

According to this freedom of information request, the number of deaths where COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate, 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2021 for England and Wales was 6,183

See attached where I’ve totalled the figures

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
3 years ago
Reply to  Freecumbria

A figure of 18,907 (for 2020 and 2021) relates to the number of ‘covid’ deaths with no pre-existing conditions in England and Wales.

The quarter 4 of 2021 figures are in the monthly mortality analysis data, and adding earlier quarters gets you to the 18,907 figure.

The equivalent of this 18,907 figure is what John Campbell talked about in a recent video although he gives your figure of about 17,371 that goes up to the third quarter of 2021 rather than the end of 2021.

Must admit I’m struggling to understand how these figures of 6,183 and 18,907 are so different. Perhaps some of the 18,907 who died with no pre-existing conditions died because of a new health condition listed on the death certificate made in conjunction with ‘covid’?

Last edited 3 years ago by Freecumbria
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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
3 years ago

I do not want to be unkind, but I have long concluded that Ms Arden is a deranged person. What puzzles me is the tolerance and endurance of the New Zealand people. They say, a bit like Scots, that more of them live outside of their homeland than in it. I am not surprised but I would urge them to return before the next elections are due.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  Martin Frost

There will be elections?

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

I was about to say just that – only perhaps a bit louder:
”E L E C T I O N S”?????

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago

Good luck to her nobody really cares !

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

People in NZ care, or the sane ones do – and those with loved ones there fear for them. I know.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago

Another witch cunt die you bastard

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Jaguarpig

Yup

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago

The original source of Mad Cow Disease.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

NZ and Scotland leaders of countries with a lot of sheep

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TSull
TSull
3 years ago

Somebody is marrying that?

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Doom Slayer
Doom Slayer
3 years ago
Reply to  TSull

its all the practice munching on carrots.

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

Let’s hope that’s all she’s munching on. If I was a bloke, I’d be scared of those teeth!

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  TSull

Well someone impregnated it. I presume it was ”someone”.

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shorthand
shorthand
3 years ago

Sounds like her old fella had a narrow escape…..

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Sandy Cotton
Sandy Cotton
3 years ago

Correction: New Zealand’s borders are also effectively closed to its own citizens and permanent residents not just ‘foreigners’. MIQ places which were entirely inadequate to meet the demand of people wanting or needing desperately to return home have been suspended entirely at the moment. Because they have wasted the opportunity of the last two years to prepare for Covid’s inevitable wide scale spread within New Zealand a terrified government is taking ever more desperate measures to keep it at bay. Unbelievably in many parts of the country there are no more ICU beds available than there were two years ago for instance.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Sandy Cotton

They’re not ”terrified” or ”desperate”, for crying out loud. This is going according to plan.

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chris-ds
chris-ds
3 years ago

What happens when they realise hundreds of thousands can get this every day with no real dramas?

at some point they will have to live with with Covid.

the vaccinations will eventually be found to be busted and the world will keep turning.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  chris-ds

It’ll keep turning for some, yes. But for others..?

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Victory Gin
Victory Gin
3 years ago

……….

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

This is what indoctrination in mediaeval superstition does to you, it’s been taught in schools, worldwide, for decades.

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dopamineboy
dopamineboy
3 years ago

One of Klaus Schwab’s Young Global Leaders!

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zners
zners
3 years ago
Reply to  dopamineboy

Right, and it’s quite clear that Schwabs global shapers are beginning to be the only ones continuing to press in as much as they can while everyone else jumps ship

Last edited 3 years ago by zners
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GCarty80
GCarty80
3 years ago
Reply to  dopamineboy

Or perhaps she’s been compromised by the CCP?

Incidentally, is it not too convenient for the CCP (which has historically legitimized their rule by delivering economic growth for the Chinese people) if the West blames lockdowns on a German environmentalist rather than them?

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago

I’ve heard that this figure of 90+ per cent is propaganda and there are a great many who are actively resisting this evil regime.

See voicesforfreedom.co.nz – they have got something good going and they’re getting a lot of support.

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Gefion
Gefion
3 years ago

Jacinda or Nicola? Jacinda or Nicola? Which one would YOU choose?

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Martini
Martini
3 years ago

Speaking from NZ I can confirm it is going from the absurd to the sublime here. Our crackpot leader , her bespecled health advisor Bloomfield, and various other ‘experts’ all seem utterly obsessed with conquering the unconquerable.
The fact their lockdown strategy failed in our largest city last year led them to saving face by adopting a ‘traffic light’ system and pushing vaccination as the mana from heaven.
They forced vaccination passes on people, vilified the unvaccinated, and claimed once we reached 90 percent double vaxxed we’d be saved. Will, hallelujah, more than 90 percent are vaxed and still we suffer under mandates. Now boosters are pushed as the be all and end all. It is farcical.
Most people still remain in mass formation like a flock of sheep by their daily exposure to fear ridden ‘updates’ given by a sycophantic media hanging on Ardern and Bloomfields every inane utterance.
However cracks are appearing as people are starting to get suspicious of the narrative and as countries in Europe begin to roll back the tyranny of their responses.

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Al T
Al T
3 years ago

Utterly deranged. Lockdown fanatical NZ have painted themselves into a corner. Two years of isolation will have depressed people’s immune systems to the point that they will never return to normal. The Covid they’re so terrified of will run wild if they open their borders.

Hopefully they will be seen as a petri dish that proves the pointless futility of Lockdown.

Last edited 3 years ago by Al T
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enlighteneduk
enlighteneduk
3 years ago

That woman always reminds me of Munck’s ‘The Scream’. Another power hungry dictator.

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Newman20
Newman20
3 years ago

I would consider it a lucky escape for the potential groom!

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nt
nt
3 years ago

What a complete nutter, destroying everyone es lives this will go on for years and years and years….. like trying to hold back a tidal wave with your hand! Crazy! My poor sister who lives there god knows when she will be able to come back to Uk for a visit

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