EVEN ROBERT WILL MISS HER

Farewell Jacinda, you will be missed.

We haven't had a Prime Minister who has represented us so well on the world stage since David Lange spoke in that Oxford Union debate in March 1985.

We've been embarrassed in the past by self-serving, venal and incompetent prime ministers - I still cringe when I think of how John Key embarrassed himself and New Zealand when he appeared on the David Letterman show back in 2009 ..... :

.... and I worry that, if National gets back in power at the end of this year we'll have the same kind of thing happening again under the likes of the blancmange man.

It'd be nice to think that the dickheads who've been so nasty towards Ardern through social media,  protests and death threats won't get their comeuppance as the downside will affect us all, but I'm convinced that this country and its leadership will not be as good for the next few years. The critics just might discover that there's no such thing as a 'communist nazi' and that Jacinda Ardern certainly isn't one. The stupid voters who, demographically and socially should be supporting Labour, who give their support to a right wing leaning National government, will find out that National does not have their interests at heart, preferring instead to line the pockets of the top percenters.