I live in Auckland. Well, we call it Tamaki Makaurau. We had a big event planned for yesterday in the central city. We had to factor in the protests plus some other stuff, ferry cancellations and so on.
My only disappointment around the Posie Parker thing is that anyone gave her any attention. The arrogance is mind blowing. Steps off a plane and imagines that the women of Aotearoa are in thrall to her. They're not. She is a hate fueller, a Murdoch-styled headline generator, the irl of clickbait. Cheap and nasty.
If she gave a shiny shit about any of us, she would spend time and try to read the room. We are still cleaning up after two catastrophic weather events. Our police force, weirdly enough, is not very impressed with a visitor making excessive demands because she feels she knows how better to New Zealand than the people of the land itself. They had actual stuff to do.
If she genuinely wanted a conversation, there are plenty of ways to go about it. 100 percent bs she wanted to speak and let others speak. She wanted chaos. She wanted headlines. She phones ahead asking for police protection knowing full well she would be rarking up vulnerable communities.
She chooses a very open and public space. She enlists the support of the grotesque Brian Tamaki, the rent-a-supremacist. Whose yobs mowed down the co-leader of the Green Party and failed to stop.
Are we impressed? We are so glad she's gone. Look, if you've got shit to sort out in the UK, maybe focus on that. We know our own people, we know our communities, your shit is not ours. When oh when are the British going to wake up to exactly how ARROGANT they appear. Honestly, the whole thing is cringe.
We did enjoy the tomato sauce though.