{"id":1816222,"date":"2023-01-19T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816222"},"modified":"2023-01-19T18:40:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:40:53","slug":"now-that-her-covid-excuses-for-tyrannizing-new-zealanders-are-gone-pm-jacinda-ardern-resigns-in-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/now-that-her-covid-excuses-for-tyrannizing-new-zealanders-are-gone-pm-jacinda-ardern-resigns-in-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That Her Covid Excuses For Tyrannizing New Zealanders Are Gone, PM Jacinda Ardern Resigns In Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnow-that-her-covid-excuses-for-tyrannizing-new-zealanders-are-gone-pm-jacinda-ardern-resigns-in-disgrace%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rather than face voters at the ballot box later this year, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern \u2014 who made an international name for herself as an insufferable tyrant after her disastrous Covid response \u2014 announced on Thursday plans to resign by next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I\u2019m announcing that I will not be seeking reelection and that my term as prime minister will conclude no later than the seventh of February,\u201d Ardern <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gOovZ7CB8xA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cI know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ardern, a member left-wing Labour Party, was elected to the post in 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-youngest-national-leaders-in-the-world-ranked-by-age-2017-10?op=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">youngest leaders<\/a> among developed nations. A \u201ccaucus vote for a new party leader and prime minister\u201d According to, the event is scheduled to take place on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/new_zealand_prime_minister_jacinda_ardern_to_resign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rebel News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes ahead of New Zealand\u2019s upcoming October elections, for which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/05\/support-for-jacinda-ardern-and-nz-labour-sinks-to-lowest-since-2017-poll-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent polling<\/a> It has seen the Labour Party trailing its right wing counterpart by several points. If the election results accurately reflect the polling, it would mean New Zealand\u2019s more conservative parties could form a coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>While long overdue, Ardern\u2019s resignation is a major win for freedom-loving New Zealanders. Ardern used Covid as a justification for limiting basic civil liberties and medical segregation since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>At the pandemic\u2019s outset in the spring of 2020, Ardern\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/nzhistory.govt.nz\/page\/new-zealand-enters-nationwide-lockdown-fight-against-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued<\/a> A nationwide order to stay at home for those citizens who are severely restricted \u201cnon-essential travel\u201d and business operations. In a matter days, the lockdowns escalated when more Covid cases were reported. Ardern was forced to relocate the country. \u201cAlert Level 4,\u201d the harshest of all lockdown policies where \u201call New Zealanders were instructed to stay at home and to have physical contact only with those in their \u2018bubble.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first week of the shutdowns was later found to be <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/19\/part-of-new-zealands-strict-covid-19-lockdown-ruled-unlawful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegal<\/a> by the country\u2019The High Court.<\/p>\n<p>But Ardern\u2019s overreaching mandates didn\u2019t stop there. Upon the rollout of the Covid shots, the now-outgoing prime minister attempted to blackmail citizens into getting the jabs by threatening to withhold their freedoms if they didn\u2019t comply. The federal government was established in October 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/new-zealand-sets-90-vaccine-target-end-lockdowns-reopen-2021-10-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that the country would move towards reopening once 90 percent of the population was fully vaccinated, with Ardern telling New Zealanders they wouldn\u2019t be able to live normal lives unless they got the experimental shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want summer, if you want to go to bars and restaurants get vaccinated, if you want to get a haircut \u2014 get vaccinated,\u201d She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/new-zealand\/2021\/10\/covid-19-how-vaccine-certificates-will-play-a-huge-role-in-freedoms-under-new-framework.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cIf you are not vaccinated there will be everyday things you will miss out on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ardern also admitted to the New Zealand Herald that the policy&#8217;s purpose was to create a two-tiered society where the jabbed have certain privileges while the unvaccinated do not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019ve basically said,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than face voters at the ballot box later this year, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern \u2014 who made an international name for herself as an insufferable tyrant after her disastrous Covid response \u2014 announced on Thursday plans to resign by next month. \u201cToday I\u2019m announcing that I will not be seeking reelection and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1898005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Now That Her Covid Excuses For Tyrannizing New Zealanders Are Gone, PM Jacinda Ardern Resigns In Disgrace","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10647,4127,10956,14662,6919,5453,10650,4975,15669,15670],"class_list":["post-1816222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-ardern","tag-covid","tag-disgrace","tag-excuses","tag-federalist","tag-gone","tag-jacinda","tag-resigns","tag-tyrannizing","tag-zealanders"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Now That Her Covid Excuses For Tyrannizing New Zealanders Are Gone, PM Jacinda Ardern Resigns In Disgrace","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}