Election 2023 - Labour crushed

Labour is taking time out to reflect on a crushing defeat that saw them lose almost half of their MPs. What is remarkable that they even need to ask the question. Are they so blind that they did not see the electorate was angry, and are they so deaf to criticism that they can’t understand why? 

The 2020 Labour Government must rate as New Zealand’s worst-ever government, not only for its litany of failures but for its arrogance and disrespect towards democracy. Fortunately, democracy prevailed and has yet again sent a message that power is in the hands of the electors not the elected.

It was Chris Hipkins who fronted with an emotional declaration of defeat, but the defeat falls on the lap of Jacinda Ardern. In the end ordinary everyday Kiwis saw through the façade of compassion and empathy and saw or felt the destructive effects of her extreme and divisive form of socialist “kindness”