While the PM was announcing an extension of the Covid-19 lockdown and urging us to be kind, Point of Order staff were reading an article in The Telegraph which was not so kindly towards her and her government.
It was headed Poor Jacinda Ardern, trapped in her arrogant Zero Covid policy
The article was written by a Matthew Lesh who kicked off:
Poetic justice is beautiful. Last week, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, announced that the antipodean nation would indefinitely pursue a zero Covid strategy. This week, it entered a stringent nationwide lockdown after the emergence of a single Covid-19 case. The pandemic giveth, the pandemic taketh away.
Since the lockdown announcement, Lesh wrote, a further 20 cases had emerged.
And even more have emerged since then.
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