New Taxpayer’s Union Poll is out and Labour are doing far better than the punters claim.
LABOUR – 41.2%
NATIONAL – 33%
GREENS – 10.7%
ACT – 11.5%
Maori Party – .5%
NZ First – .9%
Despite all the visceral venom spat at Jacinda for saving us all during Delta, the majority still support Labour.
Luxon’s bounce as leader is already over and ACT are regaining lost momentum.
Greens are running out of puff and the Maori Party vote has collapsed.
NZ First are over on this poll.
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There is a lot to happen before the next election but I feel once people get the feeling there could be a Labour Green coalition they will look at th alternative and if National are strong as a party then a Act National oalition would look the better choice of the two for the good of the country .
Quite surprised by the poll, but also feel that many Kiwis actually like the closed border NZ.
If you are living here you are getting payrises, job security and plenty of money everywhere. The economy seems to be booming.
In spite of the lobbyists many neoliberal lies are being exposed. Such as, tourism claimed it created 14 billion dollars in income for NZ, but the figures seem to have been fake because since Covid we only lost 1 billion from tourism and there are no tourists.
Meth and contraband is harder to get into NZ which is a good thing.
Long may it keep trending that way. I won’t have to feel so guilty ditching them in favour of a potential coalition partner in ’23. Sure as shit they don’t deserve the mandate they were given and which they’ve squandered. Nor will those in this entire household – almost but 1
(Sorry @ Bert. Hopefully you’ll find a cosy little cheerleader possie somewhere in the campaign that pays enough to eat and pay the rent. And maybe even give you a profile as an entrepreneurial influencer influencer in the political space, going forward)
Meh
If there was a TRUE left wing party, LINO’s vote would be a LOT less.
Absent an alternative, thery are the ONLY option, being the ‘least dirty shirt’ in the laundary basket.
Labour will bounce back further, as soon as it looks seriously like the next Govt being a Labour-Green Coalition, the masses will once more be frightened into giving Labour another majority in 2023, and Jacinda Ardern will be on track to become a 4th term PM, not seen in NZ politics since the days of Keith Holyoake.
Tell him he is dreaming.
I think Keith and his government achieved plenty in their time. And had fairly competent ministers.
Labour this time around. Not so much.
Those were the days when the gNatz had a few half-decent people – socially conservative as they may have been. One or two got corrupted since of course with their assumed status ,leading to convictions even. Others must despair at what’s happened to their glorious party (Bolger. McKinnon, Finlayson et al) – but then fuk ’em – they let it happen.
And yes, we shouldn’t fool ourselves that Labour is actually transformational or progressive in any sense of the word, even though I’m sure a few of them think they are. In fact I KNOW they do!
Full of good intentions at times of course. Maybe a bit too kind to those charged with carrying out policy at times, at the expense of being kind and transformational to those that elected them.
Standard resettling of the old alliances… Not withstandinding the utterly pointless comment I’m seeing on this site, and other so called “blogs” in NZ, The simple fact is that if covid had struck while The nats were still in, the n the death toll would have been horrendous, and the economy would be utterly munted….
People won’t forget that, or will, until the next wave, and then they will run back to auntie Jacinda begging to be saved… If the NZ electorate behaves as it usually does, with the most impressive depiction of a headless chicken one could imagine, then my only hope is that by then, I will be able to get back into Western Australia, get back on with my life, and forget this country exists… I’m just that ashamed of the depths that are being plumbed on behalf of those who would enslave us, and leave us to die if it suits the political agenda set for them by johnnies owners…. What sort of a shithole does NZ have to turn into before the realisation that the tories ain’t interested in governing for the good of society? My guess is about 5 minutes before the final curtain call (which would be when either the Americans, or China takes the place over as a forward base of operations) The intelligentsia on our right, and the woke heros of the deluded pseudo left will suddenly realise that something is wrong… Geniuses the lot of them!!
I am a huge critic of this government’s Covid measures, but the other mob – fcuk no.
From the start of the pandemic the Tories, right wing media and bloggers and commentators, talkback hosts, and all those other grumpy old men have forecast doom and gloom, death and economic disaster, blaming Jacinda as a massive failure. On the contrary, those losers have been 100% wrong and Jacinda has nearly been faultless except for the 52 deaths from Covid-19 but compared to the rest of the world she is still the best leader in the world at protecting and saving her citizens – Aotearoan/NZer lives. Aotearoa has been lucky – Lucky that the hopeless Nat/Act right wing coalition and their speculator supporters were not our Government following NSW, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, etc and opening up MIQ. None better than Jacinda and the Labour party to be in the trenches with at such a time like now with Omicron looming.
But National did run a petition.
Meh. 52 plays 45. 4 point swing. National steady in the 30s and Act shadowing the Greens. Usually a dead cat bounce for the incumbent during the holiday. Not a bad result for the right in most respects.
Son of Megatron strain about to swoop in like a giant seagull shit.
Forget Labour, how would the right run the country/ covid Frankie… a serious question?
Would be roughly the same to about now. Following > 90% I’m fairly sure they would have let it rip ala the Eastern Seaboard of Australia. Time will tell what is the better result in regards to a crashing wave quickly subsided OR a flatten the curve restriction-laden approach.
One things for sure – NZ now longer has a ‘can-do’ attitude. Aotearoa has a can’t do (abundance of caution) attitude now.
It really says how little we care about each other. Proof that if you give money away you can buy anything.
The labour government have just over 12 months with which to tackle the issues such as housing, roading, and healthcare, and then they will need to start campaigning for the 2023 General Election. Unfortunately one cannot really envisage the government making very much progress with these issues, as the government is concerned with the pandemic and boggled down in its details.
This second labour term would have to be a period of time in which we have had the least amount of coverage on these other issues, and what labour have budgeted for in every budget since they were elected in 2017 has done very little for the average New Zealand person and average New Zealand family. Promises have been broken left, right & centre. Benefits have been raised at the expense of the hard workers on low incomes, the bulk of whom have now had to shoulder over two decades of financial inequity.
This pandemic has cost us all. It originated in China and yet the sanctions on that country by our country, let’s say it slowly and sound it out, New Zealand, have been near to nil. The middle class is effectively stuffed, ever the more so because of the stalls and delays over social housing. The tax system has never been straightened out. The businessmen and property speculators are up to three times wealthier post pandemic than they were before it struck.
Who has taken accountability? Them, the wealthy? No. Those, the lawmakers? No. There, the enforcers? Not a chance. It is the young, the newest generation of New Zealand citizens, who pay the price in substandard housing, roading, and public services including health and housing. It is unfortunate but true.
As a long term Socialist , I am very very concerned by the agendas of the current government. Wake up Sheeple before it’s too late. Be Afraid ! Be Very Afraid !
I’ve voted Labour for over 40 years. However, I cannot see myself endorsing any of the present shower of
s*-te. The rich get richer etc and we face serious racial division mostly based on the greed and BS of the usual bunch of unelected elite and their cohorts. How much does the the mass of maoridom benefit after the elite few have had their snouts in the trough. Let’s have more transparency and less revisionist crap.
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