A big ask? Hypocrisy reeks to heaven

Simin Williams

Opinion

When Kerry Worsnop wrote a column to bring the failure of the 111 system during Cyclone Gabrielle to our attention, Bob Hughes had the audacity to dismiss it heartlessly saying “Keeping 111 going during events like this is a big ask, Kerry”!

This in spite of Kerry explaining that this fatal flaw could have possibly cost lives.

Bob and his “Green” friends want us to buy “driverless” electric cars, but their ideologies can’t even keep the 111 system going during a cyclone! They have 5G towers all over the place and all those space-polluting satellites, but it seems a 111 system that operates in all emergencies is beyond their capability.

Rescue helicopters, running on fossil fuels, came to the help of the cut-off communities. Don’t expect Bob and other Greenies to acknowledge that, nor expect the Minister for Civil Defence to front up, explain the failure of the 111 system and fix the issue.

Bob then unashamedly uses Kerry’s column to plug again for us all to reduce GHG emissions, including from “NZ’s greatest contribution, agriculture”.

However, only a couple of days later he complained about lack of Govt funding for Alzheimer’s NZ and the Sherwood Club whose services his family uses.

Now, we all know about the tremendous job support groups like these do in our communities. They are usually initiated and run by dedicated and caring people, without whose selfless contributions many families would experience much hardship. So, their contribution and a strong case for further Govt financial support is not in question.

What is in question is Bob’s callous disregard for a matter of life and death for families in need of 111 services during cyclones, while at the same time asking for support for services he uses. His hypocrisy reeks to heaven.

Doesn’t he realise the buildings he uses for these services need energy, and the carers use fossil fuel to get there? How does he feel if someone says to him, sorry Bob, but your support services use fossil fuel and in order to reduce CO2 emissions we need to close down most of them?

After all, he and his woke friends don’t give a damn about the great danger of starvation any reduction in food produced by NZ farmers can cause here and overseas.

Like the ideological zealots they are, there is only one thing they repeat ad-nauseum, as if under some hypnotic spell, and that is CO2 reduction. CO2 is the gas of life necessary for the growth of plants and animals that feed on them.

This extinction cult is happy to tear apart the fabric of our society in the pursuit of their ideologies, but heaven forbid if they don’t get what they need.

Bob and his ideologically driven friends in the Green Party and Labour Party need to pay more attention to headlines like that in TGH on May 30th, “Cracks emerging in Europe’s united front to battle climate change”. Read the article and you will see these zealot ideologues are on retreat due to public pressure.

People all over the world are waking up to the fact that Klaus Schwab’s global-leader graduates are far too eager to tear apart our societies and they have nothing to offer in return apart from death, destruction, starvation and misery. They are short on solutions, big on propaganda and disastrous policies.