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Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party Thrown Out of Office in New Zealand Election

by Toby Young
14 October 2023 5:00 PM

The conservative National Party has emerged as the big winner in New Zealand’s election, roundly beating Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party in what’s being interpreted as a rejection of the Net Zero policies which were harming the country’s farmers, as well as revenge for the draconian lockdowns Ardern imposed. The Telegraph has more.

New Zealanders resoundingly elected a new conservative Government on Saturday, as incumbent Prime Minister Chris Hipkins conceded that Labour’s six years in power were over.

The National Party’s Christopher Luxon said New Zealanders had “reached for hope and voted for change” after a campaign dominated by an increasingly difficult economic situation and a backlash against the Labour party’s environmental policies among farmers.

“It’s a weight off our shoulders,” said sheep and beef farmer Joe Lloyd, watching election coverage on TV from his living room in the Waikato region. Mr. Lloyd had been hoping for a National-ACT coalition, and put his vote behind the minority party due to its staunch stance on standing up for rural communities.

Alastair Reeves, another Waikato-based sheep and beef farmer, said he was “thrilled” about the new government. “Labour pitted urban New Zealand against rural New Zealand, and undermined our businesses by painting us as the polluters of the planet. We’ve been bombarded by regulations. They did everything they could to knock farmers’ confidence,” he said.

Saturday’s result was a dramatic contrast to Labour’s landslide victory under Jacinda Ardern’s leadership in 2020.

Mr Hipkins bowed out of the contest with just 85% of the votes counted. The National Party and its coalition partner were projected to win 61 seats – enough to secure a majority in New Zealand’s 120-seat parliament.

Formerly the CEO of Air New Zealand, Mr. Luxon campaigned to “get our country back on track”.

The message resonated with a population suffering under a cost-of-living crisis and worried about unprecedented spates of violent crime. …

Many New Zealanders also hadn’t forgiven Ms. Ardern for how she handled the COVID-19 pandemic.

Policies like barring overseas New Zealanders from returning home, enforcing harsh lockdowns, mandating the vaccine and refusing to face up to mandate protestors camped outside parliament, all contributed to her declining popularity before her resignation.

While her policies helped New Zealand maintain its impressively low death rate, the country’s High Court went on to deem some of the government’s pandemic policies as “unjustifiable” in a functioning democracy.

The agriculture industry had it particularly tough under Labour’s six years in power. It weathered an onslaught of green initiatives that were cricised by farmers and opposition parties as unnecessary at best, harmful to the country at worst.

Had Labour remained in power, one of these would have been the world’s first tax on methane belched and farted by livestock – by 2026. A bitter pill to swallow, New Zealand farmers felt, given they are some of the most greenhouse gas-efficient food producers in the world.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Christopher LuxtonJacinda ArdernNet ZeroNew ZealandThe National Party

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
2 years ago

Apart from a snake bite antidote injection I’m beginning to think that all childhood vaccinations should be scrutinised ! It’s a pity there’s not a doctor out there to delve into them ! Oh wait a minute – Dr Wakefield did & look what happened !

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

A link to 160 papers which support the autism link FYI
There are a few who are delving into this.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/160-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

This might be of interest.

https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/Amazing_Short_Docu_on_the_History_of_Vaccine_Effectiveness:c

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

Having learnt a bit about this lot, it seems that antibodies are short term structures created as part of a reaction to an infection, and should normally be thrown out as junk after recovery, with relevant T-cells being used for longer term records and future defence against the culprit, or it’s near-neighbours. Assuming that is the case, it’s no surprise that measuring antibody levels in various people leads to junk results. Lots of other places on this topic, but this is one of them – but note the date on it – about 2 years old: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-role-of-t-cells-in-covid-19-infection-why-immunity-is-about-more-than-antibodies/

If the so-called vaccines actually created long term memory, it would not look so good for the Pharma balance sheet, a cynic might say. They’re probably glad that the viruses mutate themselves – after all, that assists the corporate cash flow.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

T cells are first responders, and kill the body cells invaded by the virus to stop them being used for reproduction. Antibodies are secondary line of defence.

This T cell activity is at the site of infection, nasopharynx mucosal surface, and if successful greatly reduces viral load leaving antibodies as ‘mop up’ in the blood stream to kill the virus that have escaped.

If the T cell activity is not successful, the viral load may be so high that there are not enough antibodies to fight it.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

This is fairly accurate — the antibodies are the ‘mopping up” agents, not the primary focus for infection control.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago

The entire so-called ‘protection’ provided by these shots has always and only been claimed to be based on the production of antibodies.

At the same time, the UKHSA vaxx surveillance report keeps stating that it is not known precisely what role antibodies play in protection, what level of antibodies, if any, actually provides protection. I believe various ‘scientists’, on the pfisser payroll and otherwise have also indicated that precisely what antibodies do in the grand scheme of things is not really known.

And still they inject this garbage into people, even after saying they have no idea whether the only active mechanism really does anything, even after a 1 1/2 years of seeing poke after poke fail, even as those poked suffer AEs and as time goes by they are at greater risk of infection than those unpoked.

I would also like to see similar studies for different age groups, were they ever even done? The poke seems to do a run-around of T-calls, causing the body to skip straight to antibody production – surely this applies to people of all ages? I believe it is worse in children in the sense their immune system is still developing and is being corrupted to work in an unnatural way, but I suspect the corruption of the immune system applies at all ages. And we still have no idea of possible long term damage to and corruption of the immune system.

And yet plenty of so-called scientists and medical professionals still back this garbage. Presumably they have always secretly believed that the sun revolves around the earth as well and that leeches will cure all ills.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

There is a fair bit about it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826622/ If you look at figure 3 it presents a graphical summary of what seems to happen to us across age groups. The term T-cell is a bit of a wide spectrum of subsets. In the graph, the term Trm (Tissue resident memory) is used. A point worth noting is that a lot of work is done on mice, but it appears that we are a bit more complex than those – after all, we live a lot longer! Thus the capability of hanging on to long term memory of certain things is more useful to us. Note that the article I sent a link to is dated as 2018 – well before the panic ensued.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
2 years ago

What an astonishing set of results from this study.
Anyone might think that there’s more to immunity than antibodies (Hello Mr. Patrick Vallance – and thanks for your BBC lecture to the nation during the early “pandemic”) and that the immune system must have some sort of reliable memory system.

Unless it’s been trashed by some form of genetically engineered therapy.
Vaccine induced ADE and or OAS anyone….

Just the start of the problems for the jabbed.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Sadly. Dr.Geert Vanden Bossche told us this would happen.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Indeed, without T-cells (and probably NK cells and whatever else), antibodies alone are useless or worse than useless. No wonder natural immunity is superior to the jabs.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

Let’s get the terminology right. Infection = a pathogenic irgsnism such as a virus entering the body. Vaccination infects an individual with a dead, deactivated or similar harmless virus.

The immune response occurs ONLY if there is an infection, ie virus in the body, to fight it to stop it developing into disease (symptoms), although there may be some mild, short-lived noticeable symptoms.

Antibodies kill pathogens once inside the body but cannot stop them entering (infection) the body.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Mr Jones is traditionally unwilling to accept that. That’s why he’s publishing article after article about another study again detailing that umbrellas don’t prevent rain and that the coronation of Charles III did not revive his mother. Etc.

Some new ones: Turning the heating on in winter doesn’t cause a transition to summer. And switching the light on in the night doesn’t accelerate sunrise. All stuff socio-vaccinologists could publish an endless amount of studies about: In a recent experiment in Glasgow, fifteen randomly selected, quintuple-vaccinated SNP members simultaneously openend their umbrellas. But the effect on the rain was again uncertain. It stopped after a while but this also happened in areas not subject to the experiment. The science has again spoken!

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago

It has been known for some time that protection against coronavirus (in general, ie ‘some colds’) is mediated by cellular and not antibody immunity.

Quite why we’ve had the barrage of ‘ANTIBODIES!’ over the past two years is beyond me.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

It’s not just the quantity of antibodies either. Quality matters as well. The wrong kind can be useless or even worse than useless.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago

A brave attempt to educate “the system”. Thank you.

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