Borders were opened to New Zealanders and Australians in February and March, and now visitors from around 60 countries, including Britain, can enter the country if they are vaccinated and test negative for COVID-19 before and after arriving. But while some tourists willing to brave the testing gauntlet are starting to trickle into the country, Kiwis are fleeing the country en masse. GB News has the story.
Government officials have estimated 50,000 New Zealanders will flee the country over the next year as the borders reopen after two years of Covid-19 restricting travel.
Speaking exclusively to GB News, Act Party leader David Seymour says Jacinda Ardern and her Government’s policies have resulted in New Zealand experiencing a level of despair not seen for years.
He said: “Don’t believe the hype. Anyone can quarantine a remote island, the hard part was always going to be reconnecting and getting our way of life back.
“At that, Jacinda Ardern’s Government has failed. Tragicomically, her own rules mean she herself is now forced to isolate and miss parliament despite testing negative because her partner has Covid.”
Mr Seymour says the country is going in the wrong direction, and Kiwis are desperate to properly reconnect with the world.
He added: “New Zealand faces a hangover from its Covid measures in the form of a cost-of-living crisis, like many countries. What is different here is the despair that comes from being lectured to and restricted while the rest of the world moves on.
“The Government has blown a 25-point lead to trail the opposition just 18 months from the election, and the majority of New Zealanders say our country is going in the wrong direction for the first time since the GFC.
“We are hearing the phrase brain drain for the first time in a decade, hospitals report their nurses are leaving. It is dismal and we could be doing so much better.”
A spokesman for popular Facebook group for New Zealanders living in Britain, “Kiwis in London”, told GB News it has experienced a surge of interest from Kiwis desperate to make the move to Britain: “The people are sick and tired of the controlling narrative along with the fear campaign that has engulfed the media and government messaging for the past two years.”
The toothy tyrant is losing her grip.
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Please! Trigger warnings before unleashing photographs like that of Jacinda Ardern! Have a heart!
I can’t express how pleased I am that Shergar has been found!
She is a loyal servant of her Uncle Klaus. You get what is written on the box. Up to those who object to the WEF ‘young leaders to become politically active and get rid of them.
What a Dangerous Creature
Groomed for it at Davos by Uncle Klaus!
The UK was marginally better than NZ, but was still controlled by Covid Authoritarians. Sweden would be a better bet.
I used to want to have an extended holiday in NZ when I finally decided to retire. But I have a policy of not visiting Communist/Fascist States. So that won’t be happening.
You couldn’t pay me to go now – mind you that applies to a lot of countries now which won’t admit people unless they can prove they are “fully vaccinated” or have a negative test result.
But it is a game – nothing more than that. And I’m not prepared to play it.
But they keep voting for these rat infested governments…..
The words ‘frying pan’ and ‘fire’ spring to mind. Though things there seem pretty bad. There’s been something circulating that says the Unclean will face fines or even imprisonment from 1 June – but I don’t know how true that is. Not, I hope.
My wife, a Kiwi, was about to renew her NZ passport just before Covid hit.
She won’t be now.
I think I would, if I were her. After all, it doesn’t COMPEL her to go back – and maybe one day NZ might be in a better position that we are, if horseface moves (is moved) on in some way. Who knows what the future will bring?
These evil b*ggers want us to feel unsettled, after all.
Not a moment too soon!
Dont get complacent, it’s not over here yet. The NHS is still banging the drum, very hard. And the covidians are still among us and it seems will be forever more spouting their poison.
There is still much to do.
It is quite simply a case of the people saying they’ve had enough of the bs and bring this to an end, relegating these corrupt WEF puppets to the scrap heap.
Vote for teeth. Get bitten. Unbelievable people voted for that joke. Shame on you Kiwi’s.
”Losing her grip”? Not at all – none of this has been accidental or unforeseen. Why do writers keep giving these evil b*ggers the get-out clause of incompetence?
Not so clever now…
“Evil, or stupid?
Are the people who rule over us actually sinister, or are they mere bumblers who suffer the consequences of hubris?
This doesn’t have to be either-or, of course; it can be both-and.
These days, I think this issue is what divides blue-pilled from red-pilled libertarians. The blue-pilled think we’re dealing with mostly well-intentioned people who share our goals but are just using the wrong (coercive, state-led) approaches to get there.
If I ever believed that, I certainly can’t now. They are at war with us.
Every last thing the Establishment advocates makes our lives worse: lockdowns, pointless war, the destructive Federal Reserve, quasi-socialism, campaigns against eating eggs or meat — the list goes on endlessly.
If they were just stupid, then once in a blue moon they’d advocate the right thing if only by accident. They’d stumble into it.
That never happens.
It’s possible that some of the rank and file are simply not that bright, and think the elites’ policies will help them. But the people running the show? No way can they be so innocent.
So what do you do in a world run by psychos who hate you? “
(Tom Woods)
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They did stumble on Brexit.
Great post. Nothing these people do is about inspiring or nourishing our lives. It is all deadened policies from deadened human beings. They are evil and stupid. Politicians like Ardern, Macron, Trudeau, Johnson etc etc are all bought and paid for. They are little people with mean little minds but can get people to vote for them due to their training at WEF. People are such suckers for people who can say the right words and look good on camera. In my view, we have to arrest these people for crimes against humanity, for treason and for planning genocide. Somehow, we have got find judges and police who are on OUR side and issue the arrest warrants. We have a whole stack of evidence against them. They are going to jail for a very long time.
Shame the disillusionment didn’t happen a lot sooner, ie, before she was elected/re-elected. The writing was well and truly on the wall back in 2018 when she banned conservative speakers from the country.
Entrance essay for Toby Young’s Non-PC ‘University for the New Non-woke Century’:
‘The quickest way to induce a brain drain is to impose an obsessive-compulsive-disorder control freak as Prime Minister’. Discuss.
What’s to discuss?
Well this is the country that put declared a man that had been gunned down and murdered as a covid death. Even when they had suspects in custody. Surely this is in the running for the global peak instance of covid insane dogma.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/11/new-lynn-shooting-victim-was-positive-for-covid-19/
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🤣
La Compassionara really cares. How could these people possibly want to leave?
Every time I see a pic of Ardern, I think that, while she might have banned ivermectin for other Kiwis, she’s been using the veterinary version herself.
😂😂😂
Let’s deworm that horse! 🙂
HeeHaw, HeeHaw, HeeHalways says that……
Same effect in Australia, where over 30,000 people have left Victoriastan and moved to other states (or overseas).
Not sure how much we’ve ‘moved on’… Just been on the Dartmouth ferry, no cash accepted ‘since covid’.
Anyone coming to the Dartmouth area on holiday the Dartmouth ferries are very expensive £11.50 return and they refuse to accept legal tender. You dont have to use the ferry you can drive round via Totnes.
Has the right to pay in legal tender ever been tested in court?
I’m going the other way and paying for everything under £20 in cash. I’ll probably increase it to £30.
My understanding only retail outlets have to accept cash. A ferry would be regarded as a service. I am trying to use cash more than card.
Yep – use it or lose it. If people are using it then they can’t get rid of it.
What an absolute fraud they perpetrated on the population by having them believe that they could catch covid from handling money – like cash is contaminated.
You can catch STDs from sitting on toilet seats, so why can’t you catch Covid from cash?
No.
Only bishops can contract such an illness from toilet seats.
Like it’s hanging around in the till waiting to pounce when it’s not hanging about in the air like a cloud at about head height – you mean that sort of thing?
Thanks for explaining it – I couldn’t have managed it so politely!
Exactly. We’ll need to add that to the charge sheet.
All London concert venues I’ve been in since this is allowed again were cashless (Electowerkz, Roundhouse, Black Heart, Underworld).
“The people are sick and tired of the controlling narrative along with the fear campaign that has engulfed the media and government messaging for the past two years.”
What’s the point in coming to the UK then? We might not have been as extreme as NZ but a similar attitude still prevails.
We are the mother country.
Here in NZ, as a result of “kicking the can down the road” we are just now (predictably) at the stage which many other countries were at some 12 – 16 months ago. I am hopeful that we will also move on from this, as has started to happen elsewhere.
I think these people forget, women are far more compassionate and more freedom-living than men. They create less hostility and nurture a more inclusive and caring society. Anybody that thinks otherwise has not been taking their daily BBC/Guardian medicine.
See Camille Paglia for more on what women bring to civilization 😉
Move from NZ to UK?
Really? It’s just a different shade of brown.
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From that GB News piece:
“(Act Party leader David Seymour) said: ‘Don’t believe the hype. Anyone can quarantine a remote island, the hard part was always going to be reconnecting and getting our way of life back.'”
“Mr Seymour says the country is going in the wrong direction, and Kiwis are desperate to properly reconnect with the world.”
“‘What is different here is the despair that comes from being lectured to and restricted while the rest of the world moves on.'”
What exactly doesn’t he like about what his political opponents, including Jacinda Ardern who holds the office that he himself would like to hold, are actually doing right now? There’s probably a good answer to that question, but I didn’t learn what it is from the GB News article.
The refusal to let some NZ citizens enter NZ (and similarly in Australia) was a disgrace and in clear violation of international law – specifically the UN Universal Declaration
of Human Rights. If you are a NZ citizen you have a right to reside in NZ any time you want to. The government refused to recognise that right.
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Once you lose the ability to restrain the state how can you expect to have rights (restraints on the state)?
Thank God for the American red states – the rural areas and small towns.
It seems to me that the American system with its devolved federal structure, and in many places a still strong grassroots culture of freedom of the individual, has come out of this better than almost anywhere else. American courts have also been more ready to stand up for liberty than the judiciary anywhere else.
First demo against lockdown – Lansing, Michigan 15. April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdkauH6NBzE
Those states could end up being the bulwark against a lot of this for everybody!
If their governors hold out and dig their heels in then Biden cannot deliver the USA to the WEF as a single entity.
In the US there is a similar trend, as hundreds of thousands of Americans leave California and New York for Texas and Florida.
People want to live as human beings.
A promising sign.
Except that many of those people vote Democrat again or support Republican in Name Only neo- and pseudo-conservatives in their new homes, and the whole cycle starts again…
Hence the wisdom of a constitution. A list of things government cannot touch no matter how weak the people are.
The Constitution can, and has been, changed. It was written to be flexible.
The ‘Bill of Rights’ were the first ten ‘amendments’ to the constitution, derived from the Magna Carter (ouch, I wonder how many Americans know that?).
I’m not sure of the numbers here but there have been about 23 (and I don’t know if that includes the BoR, with about 17 ratified.
Amendments, so called because the Constitution was amended.
Biden isn’t wrong when he says the constitution isn’t set in stone.
That’s my understanding, I’m far from informed on the matter.
Cant vouch for their current education system but Americans (generally) were far more knowledgeable on all things Magna Carta than pretty much any Brit,
I can’t argue with that as I’d be doing so from a position of ignorance of the matter.
The only monument to Magna Carta was erected in Runnymede by the American Bar Association. They view it as one of the most important events in human history.
It wasn’t written to be flexible, but can be added to. And the ten amendments were based on the English Bill of Rights from 1689.
A constitution is set in stone in that it codifies universal birthrights no one can infringe, like the right to freedom of expression or the right to bear arms etc. The notion being those who wish to diminish its importance wish to infringe upon your universal rights and hence must be stopped. Naturally if they wish to do so they’ll be circumspect and try to persuade you those birthrights aren’t really rights because we must move with the times.
The Founding Fathers intended the document to be flexible in order to fit the changing needs and circumstances of the country.
In the words of Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph, one of the five men tasked with drafting the Constitution, the goal was to “insert essential principles only, lest the operations of government should be clogged by rendering those provisions permanent and unalterable, which ought to be accommodated to times and events.”
My understanding is those unalienable rights are the Bill of Rights, which were the first ten amendments made to the Constitution, which is what I posted earlier.
Which get’s us nicely to the question of abortion. It’s not mentioned specifically in the Constitution either to allow or disallow it, so it’s a candidate for inclusion.
Biden might be correct in that it’s not set in stone, but the Federal government cannot unilaterally change it, or simply ignore the parts of the Constitution they don’t like, eg, 1st and 2nd Amendments
Entirely agree. But whilst the Constitution enshrines the right to bear arms, it says nothing about ammunition.
Biden could ban all ammunition and not violate the Constitution.
The Constitution appears to have been simply bi-passed by the now permanent ‘Emergency Powers Act”.
That’s the theory, but I suspect its more likely Republicans are fleeing California to red states rather than Democrats.
Musk has moved Tesla to Texas.
And ex-Democrats.
Indeed. If they are fleeing California for a red state, it’s for a reason, likely to do with crime, vagrancy, taxes, energy policy, rents, woke etc. I suspect many would realise much of their grief was caused by Democrat policies and not want to repeat the same mistake.
I mean, who want’s to go into Texas and announce yourself as a Democrat voter. Unless they all head for Austin which is notoriously blue.
Not so sure about that. It’s the Republicans who are leaving California, who’ve had enough of the tyrannical, useless Democrat governors. My cousin is one such. She and her mum are actively planning to move to Tennessee. They absolutely won’t be voting Democrat. If they’ve got any sense, her brothers should do the same.
Send your cousin my regards, and ask her if she can get me a MAGA hat. 😃
Where do we go ? Cornwall? I don’t think so.