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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appeared as Mary Poppins in an episode of the UK puppet satire. Spit image.
The cartoon version of Ardern’s puppet was part of a sketch that poked fun at New Zealand’s approach to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the sketch, two people are sitting outside a cafe, praising the freedoms New Zealanders currently experience compared to the rest of the world.
“What a fantastic day in New Zealand: meat pies, a ginger crisp and a positive trade balance with China,” says one, before another responds: “I know, but sometimes I think things here could be more fantastic. “
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Then, appearing across the Auckland skyline and flying past the Sky Tower, is a Mary Poppins-like figure.
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Jacinda Ardern in Spitting Image
When the figure lands in front of the cafe, Ardern’s puppet says “Kia pray, kids. What a healthy climate we are having. Not a single patch of virus can be seen. “
“Why, Jacinda Ardern, are you boasting?” asks a sheep tied to her umbrella.
“Virtually perfect people never boast,” the Ardern puppet replies, before adding “We are simply re-elected forever.”
It is then that the sketch becomes a song, riffs of the famous Mary Poppins tune. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious titled “Super-empire-socialist-kiwi-de-Jacinda”.
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Jacinda Ardern has appeared as Mary Poppins on the UK satire show Spitting Image.
The lyrics of the song basically describe Jacinda’s rise to power and how New Zealand tackled the coronavirus outbreaks, something that has been praised by the international media.
“In a world of strong men came a nice lady, I am kind, young, kind and smart, good, kind and young,” the song begins.
“When I became the boss of New Zealand, I knew exactly what to do, start a babysitting state and turn our gray skies blue.
“I banned all assault weapons and applied a living wage, gave birth to a child of advanced maternal age.
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Jacinda Ardern as Mary Poppins, with a sheep umbrella.
“I lock us up faster than the Yankees and the British.
“Now NZ is virus-free, we kicked him in the tits,” the song ends before the dance continues.
Spit image airs on the Brit Box streaming site in the UK.
