Richard Steele with governor general Dame Cindy Kiro.
I’m sick of the polls.
Richard Steele
They started two minutes after the last election and have been relentless ever since. This is not even a political statement, but this current coalition, and for that matter, the previous Labour government, have been in positions unprecedented in my lifetime, and have had to cope with physical and economic circumstances, from which there are no easy ways out.
Of course there have been mistakes made. Partly. I suspect that most of the decisions made have been made by humans. By us, and by the people we have elected to do our bidding for us. Long may that system continue, because as I cast a beady eye around the world, it strikes me that we still have the best electoral system in the world.
Yet we still continually knock our politicians, even when they try their hardest.
I’m not seeking to support the Prime Minister here, but for heaven’s sake, give the man a break. The world is faced with more dilemmas at once than I think I’ve ever seen. Possibly since the last world war, which I missed, by not being born.
Yet we expect him and them to get everything right, every time. Well, face the facts, dear readers, when in the history of our good planet has everything gone exactly to plan.
When did anybody you know do everything right? And who are these pollsters? No one has ever rung to ask me what I think, well not for 77 years anyway.
And the outfit that just about sent us broke, albeit while doing their best during and after Covid, are now out polling this crew, who are trying to navigate us through the world of Donald Trump and his version of systematic mayhem – the likes of which we have never seen.
I don’t really mind, with a few minor exceptions, who is in charge of our lovely country. Most of the people we elect have our best interests at heart. There is not that much difference of a coalition of the right leaning parties and or a coalition between the left leaning, and three years is not really enough time to turn the economy around either.
But surely this, more than ever before in my lifetime, is a time to stop rubbishing our leaders, to actually give them faint praise for the good that they are trying to do, and to condemn the pessimists, the naysayers, to the miserable life they deserve.
