No one was expecting any kind of searing clap back from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in regards to the verbal slop issued in her direction by Alan “Big Fuckhead” Jones, but her actual response might be the most measured burn we’ve seen from a politician in quite some time.
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Last week Jones suggested that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison should “shove a sock down her throat,” in regards to Ardern’s previous statement that Australia would have to “answer to the rest of the Pacific” on the issue of Climate Change, after we weaselled our way out of facing any scrutiny at the recent Pacific Islands Forum.
Jones has been hauled through the ringer over the comments, with advertisers who spent money on his show – who were doing so despite being aware Jones had previously incited the Cronulla race riots virtually single-handedly, among a laundry list of other, oh let’s say, various indiscretions – pulling their support. Meanwhile Jones’ employer, 2GB, issued the 79-year-old broadcaster with a very serious “tsk tsk”-ing, asserting that if he ever did anything like this again – that is, the thing he’s been doing virtually unchecked for his entire career – then boy, would he ever be in trouble.
Ardern, being the Prime Minister of a leading Pacific nation, doesn’t exactly have the time to prattle back-and-forth with some idiot old AM crank across the ditch. In a radio interview in New Zealand this morning, she made that abundantly clear.
“I am a politician, I am open for criticism and of course, we should all be held to account and the idea that any politician could or should be protected, I absolutely rally against that.”
“You should see my social media. We sign up for that when we are politicians. I have tried very hard, specifically on this Alan Jones comment, you won’t find me having particularly reacted or responded.”
“I don’t have an opinion on every single person that says something about me, particularly given this is an Australian commentator. We have enough of our own to occupy my time.”
She did, however, casually sledge Jones by bringing up the fact that New Zealand symbolically and literally trounced Australia in the Bledisloe Cup over the weekend, which Australia has not managed to win since 2002.
“I understand he used to be closely linked to the Wallabies, so let’s just say that revenge is best served through a Bledisloe Cup.”
I’m no fancy big-city linguist, but I’m fairly certain that’s Politician for “Go fuck yourself you old bitch.”
You don’t need no Babel Fish to figure that out.
