Kiwis encourage others to elect their own 'Jacindas' instead of wanting to move to New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern.
Jacinda Ardern. Photo credit: The AM Show

Kiwis have a brutal message for anyone thinking of moving to New Zealand after seeing and liking the Prime Minister's response to COVID-19.

Jacinda Ardern has received praise from around the world on her reaction to the pandemic, prompting some people to say they now want to move here because of her.

But one Twitter user is instead encouraging non-New Zealand residents to elect the "Jacindas" in their own country.

"For anyone who needs to hear this: Jacinda does not need to take over Australia, the US, or the world. You all can't move to NZ and you don't really want to," their tweet says.

"There are Jacindas in every country. Friggin elect them."

A screenshot of the tweet was uploaded to Reddit where many users questioned whether other 'Jacindas' would even be recognised and elected.

"I live in Aus (sic), the number of people at work that tell me 'man you guys are so lucky, I wish we could have a leader like her' and I've had to turn around and point out you probably wouldn't elect her even if you had the chance," one person wrote.

Another person agreed, believing it's unlikely someone similar to Ardern could get elected in the US too.

"A Jacinda will never get elected in the US mate. You can vote in the primary, but it never works because all the idiots come out and vote in yet another self-serving career politician."

A third person says that people shouldn't move countries just because there's a problem in their own.

"If you have a problem, don't just move, that doesn't solve the problem. Fix the problem."

Google trends for the phrase "move to New Zealand" show that over the past 12 months, the number of times that was searched increased in April this year. It also shows the amount of times that phrase was searched nearly doubled just over the past two weeks.