Roy Morgan Poll – National/ACT 49.5% Labour/Green 43%

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Latest Roy Morgan (or Rogue Morgan as critics call it) has come out with their latest Poll and it’s sobering news for the Left.

NATIONAL: 38%

ACT: 11.5%

LABOUR: 32%

GREEN: 11%

MAORI PARTY: 2%

NZF: 2%

TOP: 1%

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I know, I know, I know. Greens on 11%? I know right.

Like I said, Rogue Morgan.

This poll was taken over the Parliament Lawn fiasco and Omicron surge so a bad  month for the Government.

If the mainstream polls start showing National ahead, it makes for a change of narrative.

I think the 2023 election will be far closer now and it’s there for Labour to lose now.

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119 COMMENTS

  1. The trend is all bad for Labour – the narrative has been lost and the utter incompetence is shining through.

    I think it’s highly unlikely that Labour are back at this point in time as anything can happen.

    The bigger challenge for Labour is placating all those nobodies who are in parliament now but facing oblivion very soon – will they all sit quietly and accept the loss of salary etc. I suspect not and more so expect disruption and tension within Labour to start accelerating their demise

    Will the right faction push back on the Māori faction, etc.

    • I’ve just watched this by Russell Brand via YouTube.
      He’s well worth following in my opinion.
      This is with regard to crypto currencies and of how there’s a global bankster scramble to regulate it/them?
      ( I don’t know a thing about crypto currency but I’m about to find out. )
      Youtube:
      “How do the actions of Canada’s government around freezing bank accounts and crowdfunding services fit in with a larger global agenda to regulate and surveil cryptocurrencies?”
      https://youtu.be/V4VXWdWMLvA
      I wrote in responce:
      “countryboy
      1 second ago
      Brilliant you @ Russell Brand. You’re an Oasis in an ocean of mainstream media garbage. I’m posting you to a blogsite here in AO/NZ titled :https://thedailyblog.co.nz/ Everyone here’s going ” Where’s our money? How come we don’t own anything by way of state owned assets anymore? Why are there hungry kids living in cars with their mum’s and dads and there are homeless people and there’s only 5.1 million of us. Yes, that’s right our entire population is the same number as people who subscribe to your awesome youtube channel. Our AO/NZ’s larger in area than the UK by about 26 K sq km, we’re primarily agrarian, we export millions of cu ft of timber and yet we have homelessness, we export enough food, it is written, to feed 42 million people and yet we have child hunger and poverty. Now I know why ! We’re been ‘run’ by a Kiwi version of the fucking mafia.
      Mafioso who pop on a suit then head to the office in Bentley’s. The Mafia here are known as The Bankster, comprised of four main foreign owned banks which used to be ours who take billions and billions of dollars out of our AO/NZ’s economy in net profits annually. “

      • Great questions, Country Boy. Why do we have such poverty in this land of plenty? We have enough of everything to be self -sufficient. Enough land and water and materials to house everyone. Enough food to feed everyone. Why is anyone lacking?
        I also recommend Russell Brand, quite the inspiration the one I’ve watched

      • Country Boy you are a knowledgeable chap, can you please explain to us why timber is our 3rd or 4th largest export product however our dressed timber prices here are more expensive than Australia. Sometimes it is difficult to get good quality dressed timber here in NZ ?

  2. This is the best news I have seen for awhile. I am a National leaning voter so obviously their placing pleases me but I also hope it wakes Labour up and they realize they cannot do nothing and expect to be in power after then next election . I am not eadded to National and could eccept a Labour government that moved on issues like housing getting people back into the work force help the elderly and they very young .
    Interesting times ahead and plenty of time for miss steps from both sides.

    • Not surprised that you would vote National, given that you are on record as thinking that people should lose everything if they cannot work due to sickness or disability, and that you want to impose US style health care.

      • Correction I am on record as not agreeing with the stupid two tier benefit system that Labour were suggesting that was slammed by most commentators and has vanished to the same grave yard as the Auckland bike bridge and 10000 homes in 10 years and many other half cocked schemes thought up by a government with no life skills other than politics.
        I am on record as saying benefits should be rise so people do not have to beg at food banks and have some dignity.

  3. Don’t panic my friends. It’s only an indication. Like dark clouds indicate rain. Or lightning indicates thunder.

    • @ sk Firstly, I’m not your fucking friend, I don’t know about the rest of you.
      Secondly; Who cares?
      labour is the same thing as the natzo’s, indeed post neoliberal labour is merely a natzo clone and if you don’t yet understand that you must be getting your information via rnz, tvnz or any number of other right wing sycophant msm outlets.
      Our AO/NZ’s in deep trouble. We really do need to try and view things more spherically if we’re not to become second, third or fourth class citizens in our own country. @ Maori might agree.
      The problem that I have is, that apart from Chloe Swarbrick, I see no one who would be clear-thinking enough to try to drag the carcass of our AO/NZ to the curb to try to resuscitate it.
      It seems to me that no one can find their balls ( Both literal and metaphorical ) to do what’s necessary.
      What’s necessary one might ask?
      Well…
      Mandate voting.
      Don’t vote? Then fuck off.
      Crush the foreign owned banks over night into a distant memory and a funny smell.
      Those Kiwi-As non tax paying multi millionaire and billionaire parasites we’ve been bank rolling for generations?
      Time to stump up Boys. How does a generous 99% tax rate above an equally generous tax free $300K in cash and investments sound?
      Those homeless people like the sound of it. The ones you made homeless that you don’t care about now that they don’t have any money left.
      Open trade negotiations with what WERE our trading partners before The Boys got to them and stripped the guts out of our exhausted, terminally indebted to foreign owned, once were our banks, farmers.
      I can’t make the bed without instructions and pictures and yet I can write up a list of vital and curative courses of action we can undertake now, today, and I seem to be the only one who agrees with me. What the fuck’ going on!? Can I be that off-track?
      The National party fucked us, but wait, there’s more. They also needed to fuck Labour too which is why roger The Rat douglas chose to parasitise Labour then eat it from the inside out.
      Labour WAS for normal, working, family-having people but Labour was also one more vital and dangerous thing. Labour had the numbers.
      Farmers had the money. Labour had the workforce numbers while the criminal money fetishists had nothing. And look how that’s changed?
      roger did a brain fart then little trickle down his trouser leg and you schmucks fell for it.
      Well, we can all be schmuckish from time to time. So lets forgive ourselves of that and go and kick some rich punk arse !

      • “Roger The Rat” LOVE IT – +100% Agree Parasited the Labour Party and ate it from the inside out, we subsequently got fucked by Bolger/Shipley who is now b4 the Courts over the Mainzeal Collapse/Clarke & Key etc

        • Ngungukai Shipley before the courts? The same Shipley responsible for lowering the drinking age ostensibly because it would magically turn Kiwi booze artists into responsible continental-type civilised drinkers ? That Shipley ?

          The tragedy of children born with foetal alcohol syndrome is being publicly played out right now, and whatever the numbers are for New Zealanders, it looks as if that particular helping hand for the alcohol industry, may have blighted unborn babies future lives more horrifically than any of the innocent babes in the womb ever deserved to have happen to them. Once again, it is children being victimised. Quick – get let’s get rid of their Commissioner, before the public realises how government after government fails them.

          • It was a Toxic Neoliberal Field Experiment, the results are only just being released and published. Without a doubt the most impaired will be our lower socio economic Brown Whanau and our Feral White Lower Socio Economic Groups, a majority of these people end up in gangs pushing drugs, abusing alcohol, and partaking in all round anti social behaviour like a number of the people at the Dumb Lives Matter Movement in Wellington over the past month. Dollars to Donuts I believe a number of people their have some type of mental health issuues.

      • Out of interest countryboy where in NZ do you live? Just curious (I imagine somewhere right out in the wops like Matawai).
        No need to reveal your exact location in case ‘The Bankers’ are monitoring this . .

  4. Or described as thus …
    Born Again Christian Tories – 38%
    Chardonnay Socialist Ideologues – 32%
    Pseudo Libertarian Opportunists – 11.5%
    Woke Green Washers from central Wellington – 11%
    Non-tie Wearers from Rotorua – 2%
    Non-mask Wearing Opportunistic Winston Devotees – 2%
    Sensible Infighting Former Gareth Devotees from Wherever – 1%

    The MSM love to bash the Roy Morgan poll; I no no why, because they are all much if muchness on election day. It’s downside is that is polls for the whole month. Not withstanding that, the mid-point would have been at the start of the protest – so it’s not all protest angst an the guvmint’s handling of the occupation that has caused Labour’s dip.

    • The Duck must just about be ready to receive the Old Age Persons Benefit, or he could apply for a Mental Disability Benefit, his recent actions would no doubt qualify him for that type of Benefit.

    • Would be like a breath of fresh air without him, however who have Labour got who is competent enough to replace him.

    • Well you can’t get away with doing nothing for 6 years and hope to get re-elected. Evidently most of the policy put through in there First Term was NZF Policy.

  5. Why the f**k can’t there just be a new centre party which has none of the bullshit all talk no walk woke virtue signalling of Labour / Greens and is similarly devoid of the self-centred blood sucking sell your own children’s organs if there is a money to made of the Nats / ACT?

    • I thought you were supposed to be dead!

      But yes your question is a good one JB. I think a lot of us would go for a party with sensible policies based on evidence rather than ideology.

    • NZF were Centre/Right but I hear they are just about f****d, I hear Winston is holed up in a Resthome in Whangarei these days.

    • I did hear talk of a New Farmers Party coming out of NZF and disaffected Candidates and Members but I haven’t heard anything lately, too early in the Election Cycle, probably holding their cards close to their chests at this stage ???

  6. Lol. The PM is going for a job interview in May. Wait till the poor man’s Gordon Brown is in charge and having to explain his poor spending choices when stagflation hits in winter. Another landslide coming up – just the other way.

    This is now the Right’s to lose as omnishambles fizzles out and we stumble back to normality

    • But don’t go betting on Luxon being the new messiah and allowing his half witted grand to get out

      https://youtu.be/lN4TxOd9I8Q

      Not the die part but the rest of the lyrics are perfect, particularly ” like John before him” and ” by leaps every minute he’s top of the polls”.

      • I’ve said before I’m no Fester fan and won’t be voting for Te Aro Luxon come 2023. However all he has to to do is not make any big mistakes and wait for the banana peel slips when the heat goes on.

        In 6 months time omnishambles is effectively done (yes there will still be thousands of cases a week) however the unwashed will move on. Already cost of living is the main issue for voters. Wait till the end Ukraine effects are seen and Petrol peaks at over 4 dollars. When 50% of the cost are taxes you have already lost the argument……

        Put a fork in her – she is done.

        • 100% Frank

          All Luxon has to do is play with a straight bat and offer professionalism and basic competence. Both of which he has.
          Meanwhile Labour is making up policy on the fly, based on life experience none of them actually have. Their flagship policy – climate change – is already a bust in the eyes of the voters who buy fuel. None of it ever made any real sense anyway. A key driver behind the war in Europe is green virtue signalling that has made us dependent on Russian oil and gas again.
          My pick is that as the the pressure goes on Ardern she will react in ever more nasty and spiteful ways and will be widely reviled as she leaves office.

          • Andrew he is already doing dumb comments real good, made the comment today re Standing Candidates in the Maori Seats Quote “I have been approached by some very high calibre Maoris over the Summer ?” so what he is really trying to say is Maoris are normally low calibre ?

    • So how many hospitals would you close down to cut taxes? And how much would you slash wages by. National and ACT would make it sure that no one get a wage increase ever again.

        • Labour spent 100 Billion in 2 years Bertie and no new hospitals or staff……That argument will be almost impossible come a winter recession.

          • Let’s be Frank, Frankie, should they have not paid out the wage subsidy, should they not helped out business at all?
            Dare I read the comments on this blog should Labour not have done that! At least the money was well spent.
            Sad but true Frankie my boy, millsy is spot on.

            Someone on here pines for the “rockstar economy” to return, you remember when hospital infrastructure was run down and the Nationals immigration ponzi scheme was rampant. Why was there increase in National debt from 10 billion to 100 billion from National with nothing to show for it?

            • Bert, you forget the GFC. National inherited from Labour an economy already in recession with 10 years of structural deficit projected. National could have slashed and burned everything but they chose to borrow to keep paying for essential services and benefits. Which paints them considerably less heartless than some folk would like to. To their credit, they turned those 10 years of deficits into just six or seven with fiscal restraint, returning to surplus early. Yes, they didn’t splash cash extravagantly and tried to do more with less. Check the material hardship poverty stats over the past nine years or so when the measure was introduced in 2013. Poverty reduced much more in those last four years under National than it has in Labour’s five years.

            • Ohhhh,,, Only for the Return of the Golden Years Under the Rockstar Economy of John Key, they were the great years high wages, low rents, lots of surplus cash to put food on the table, warm housing and healthy well clothed and looked after children, come back John and save us from this dreadful witch Jacinda.

      • Why is it binary in your mind? Is it not possible to redirect spending from other areas whilst reducing taxes? I believe the Prime Minister acknowledged just yesterday that there are areas of wasteful spending…

        • She was a bit rattled the other day and her hands were going everywhere when the interviewer was trying to hang the Cost of Living Increases on the Labour Party.

  7. Labour/Greens have lost it already because of their lack of meaningful action and an incompetent team.
    Let’s see if this makes them wake up or hunker down. I think they are dumb enough to hunker down.

  8. It’s always been there for Labour to lose. The assorted lunatics from Parliament’s lawns will be over the moon. (Still on the planet they inhabit.)

    There’s something sort of wondrous about people who say Covid isn’t a thing. They’ll go to the supermarket and see empty shelves blame Jacinda Ardern. Those who trust schools enough to send their kids there will wonder why classes are mucked up or kids are sent home with staff shortages. And blame Jacinda Ardern.

    Those deluded enough to tell us the Wellington mob were all lovely peaceful thinkers, simply caring folk seeking freedom will be thrilled their sagacity and action will see us on the right road.

  9. Will Labour ever stop tinkering?

    Will they stop doing things for appearances and actually have substance to their actions?

    Will they actually achieve anything they said they would?

    Do they possess the ability to achieve anything?

    Do they possess the credibility to actually convince us they aren’t a waste of space?

    Do they have any credibility left with law and order after the Wellington debacle?

    They have made this so very easy for National and I’ve said it a few times, what is the point of voting for Nationals Mini-Me?

    • It is all Smoke and Mirrors these days, same as National under John Key, it is about managing perceptions and keeping a majority for the next Election, so they all have a job at yours and my expense (ie the taxpayer).

      Are Labour actually going to do anything ?

      Only time will tell ?

  10. Time for a Cabinet reshuffle. They can spin it as 3 having too much on their plates (Sepuloni, Faafoi and Woods). Or a “refresh”. It’d be a start at least.

      • if they look under the bus they might find a few more people who self identify as women and other diversity picks, the more obscure the better. Surely.

      • Hope so it’s a great idea. With petrol at the price it is there will be no traffic jams and trams and trains will be looked on as gold.

    • Good idea oncewastim. We really need an Energy Minister who actually talks to and listens to the Energy sector. You know the people who do the work.( altho they’re leaving in droves and there is no one left to train newbies) Not the the wankers in MBIE who have spreadsheets to tell everyone in the energy sector they’re doing it wrong.Even tho’ they can’t do ANY of the jobs in the Energy sector except speculate on energy futures!

      • It’s not just the energy sector unfortunately.
        I’ve been having a few more brain farts and rustling a few ideas together, hoping it diesn’t make me dangerous.
        In previous brain farts, I came to the realisation that while some of us studied various disciplines such as Media Studies (and even as a tutor), we did so because we wanted to understand the impact and consequences of media. Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that in the neo-liberal and 3rd-way “space”, most were studying it in order to use it to advance their own political agendas – simply because it was all about I-I-I-moi-moi-moi. They were often doing it with POLS and Meerkating – a bloody big hint as to their motivation.
        And all those promises and inquiries that’ve dragged on for years.
        Another of my brain farts was that, at a time when the Whurl has become more dynamic and the pace of change more rapid, the ability of gummint implement change in a more timely manner has slowed. The Public Service is just not working.
        And then along comes a politician with good intentions and we get the Public Service Act. Some good ideas, but the driving force behind it, He (Chippie) expects that the State (oops Public) Service Commisar should drive the change. GOOD FUCKING LUCK with that! We leave it to the very people with a vested interest in preserving the status quo, and who are well-versed in that skill of managing the message in order to advance their agenda virtual reality style.
        I’ve supported Labour all my life as have most of my family. I’ve realised that it’s been a bit tribal. We fought for proportional representation and got MMP, even tho’ it’s not perfect. But it’s being abused under the neo-liberal/3rd Way cultists.
        I’ve decided to vote electorate – for the person I think is most capable out of the candidates on offer; and for the Party whose values most closely align with mine – and if they want to retain any credibility other than for the next immediate election, they’ll fucking stick to them. Call it naive if you wish – it’ll only be by those clever dicks that have studies POLS, MDIA and Meerkating.
        My concerns are to do with:
        – PS reform. (SFA has changed, and nor will it unless there is an independent agency that does not sit within exosting gummint agencies, or indeed the State Service Commission itself)
        – Openness and Transparency (that thing we were promised). Munsters and the PS continue to obfuscate and hide as they piss in each others pockets.
        – Immigration Policy. One of the worst fuckups but I won’t get started or we’ll be here till CHristmas
        – Worker exploitation (related to immigration, but an issue in and of itself)
        – The housing crisis – or should we call it an emergency. You choose
        – and then there are other issues with little progress, Such as the gun register (I could get something whipped up within 6 to 8 weeks ffs, and of far better quality than the likes of an MIQ booking system); bank and mortgage lending and all the unintended quincequinces; supermarket and other duopolies……….

        I’ll leave it there for now. We’d better all hope Labour, Greens, and then TOP and the MP wake the fuck up soon because Jo and Josephine public are losing interest in the spin meisters and bullshit artists, and it’ll be at the expense of democracy

      • getting rid of the faux retail market would be a start, build more hydro now and make rio tinto pay a realistic price for lekky, if they flounce off it leaves spare capacity to offset engineered fake ‘shortage’ price hikes..

        and that’s a start.

    • The tories have a hopeless bunch in their caucus. Luxon, Bridges and Willis are out of their depth. All the retro joe tories are floundering and are referring to retrospective matters from way back.

  11. This once in a generation Labour majority MMP Govt. was always going to be defined by its actions-and so it has turned out-unrepentant Rogernomes and Chicago Boys.

    And to make it a even worse they are likely going to uncouple sanctions from the international community and in effect suck 5 Eyes donger. A reasonably independent foreign policy gained credibility for our small country and the PM has really exposed her total lack of a class analysis, or even ability to maintain a Helen Clark style approach.

    There are a number of things in Labour’s favour that few voters know or care about it seems, from decent minimum wage increases to saving thousands (till now) from COVID.

    But before any of the Tory slime that seemed to have grown on the pipes of TDB celebrate, Nashnull would have opened up and dispatched many more to a COVID death and they will increase inequality if ever elected again.

  12. Country Boy laughed my arse off reading this post, my sentiments exactly unfortunately I have not got the mental energy to write a post this long so I try to keep mine to minimum, one of the better contributors to TDB look forward to the next post, actually enjoy some good sarcasm and laughter brightens up the day especially with the Dumb Lives Matter Movement and the Ukraine Situation.

  13. I welcome the result.

    Regardless of it being rogue, we do know what is factual.

    1) Self perseveration is very real and is a huge motivator for any Government.

    2) Labour will be working feverishly to nullify any and all areas National can get traction on.

    3) Labour has 18 months to get momentum in the right direction so that will result in a win for most Kiwis.

    • Number 3 is the hope. Let’s bloody well hope they have the means to dos so, because so far, they’ve not shown that capability. Thoroughly NICE people as many of them are, there are a few of them that are really out of their depth.
      Time for a reshuffle – spin it as they may – they’re expert (or at least THINK they are) at it. Call it a “REFRESH”

      There are some really serious issues brewing – not the least of which is going to be the mean-spirited, and frankly a wwe bit evil Carmel Sepoloni and the OT/Chilluns Commisar issue.
      What the fuck has possessed Her. In and of itself, that could become an election changer given the changing age demographics. It’s bordering on the fucking EVIL
      So be it. Que Sera Sera

  14. If my memory serves me well? Isn’t this about the same time in the second term, where, in Helen Clarkes labour government that the wheels came off the bus too?

    Maybe it’s time for the ‘Maori Caucus’ to pull a coup d’ etat!?

    • But the big difference is Helen Clarke was/is competent, and she had competent ministers around her. Even I recognise that, in fact I voted for Clarke during one election.

      Jacinda isn’t good enough to tie Clarkes (Helen that is) shoes and her only option is to try and milk every last ounce out of Covid that she can because that’s all she has. But people are getting sick of it.

    • Yep you are right Helen started going a bit nutty I think, and wanted to tax light bulbs and shower heads if my memory serves me correctly.

      • Ngungukai You err. Clark wanted to change the light bulbs. How many pollies does it take to change a light bulb ? Hmm.

        The dear lady was simply giving a helping hand to the lamp shade industry of Asia, because so many households throughout the country could have had to replace their existing light fittings to accommodate led bulbs. This would also have given a boost to the rugged individualist sparkies doing quite nicely with their cash jobs and holiday houses at Turangi and Wanaka. Shower heads were to be minimised to save water, so that we could give away more water to China to package in plastic bottles and sell back to us clean enough to drink. The meme was “ Save water – bath with a friend “, because parliamentary politicians are sex and gender obsessed, and they fancied the idea of showering with the neighbours more than the neighbours might.

      • Yep sure was a Brighter Future for NZ, more guns, more shootings, more gangs (ie 501 Imports), more mental health issues, more cost of housing issues, now cost of living issues however it is not true ?

        JK sold us the Sizzle but we didn’t even get a Sausage.

  15. Looking at that expensive slide, it seems to me that actually it represents forward movement by Labour, who may be about to enter the slippery slope and go whee all the way to….? They won’t know where till they try it.

  16. When they opened the border, trolls came and the money to run them in extensive anti government campaigns.

    However the government have been so busy placating the open borders Natz and ACT, that they totally ignore their voters and this is the result.

    Nobody wants Three Waters, free speech criminalisation, more ‘targeted’ taxes and woke think including a large chunk of Labour supporters.

  17. Banks making insane profits, supermarkets making over the odds profits by having the market by the balls and rocketing fuel prices.
    Yes, the Luxon Seymour duo will fix it all.

  18. “It’s already unacceptable that her Minister is considering killing off Orange Tamariki oversight by axing the Children’s Commissioner and rolling those powers into ERO.”

    There is too much rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic and pretending there is not a problem with Labour. Over time this creates a massive backlog of unsolved and increasing problems such as the brain fart of 3 waters, another layer of management/restructure for taxpayers to pay for which results in increasing costs and less accountability for action. The cultural Te Reo meeting and working group think tanks, aran’t solving the extensive problems for everybody, including non middle class Maori.

  19. The growing call for more cheap workers that nobody wants apart from the exploiters – woke and right wing.

    Aka constant headlines like
    Shortage of truck drivers threatens food deliveries; “can’t be swept under the rug”. (Forget worrying about the commerce commission for the cost of food, it’s the missing drivers that they just imported tens of thousands in the past decade that seem to be missing) sarcasm.

    Funny enough on social media, the headlines have comments like

    We’re do I get those jobs I’m keen trucker

    Well 21 hour or 23 hour doing 70 hours a week won’t support the family . But the tax u pay will support the government . Getting there free perks on the taxpayers. That’s why they can’t get drivers

    $35 contract plus gst to drive a truck who can afford To work for that and keep a family
    No wonder there is a shortage

    Remove secondary tax and you may find a few spots being filled.

    I got a class 5 license but apparently dont have the experience. Then again also live wrong place right beside a Railway line which could be used as a hub. The problems not shortage of drivers its a shortage of forward thinking to overcome the problems. I know a few with HT licences that do not work in the Trucking industry.

    maybe not a lack of drivers just lack of good wages and Covid restrictions by the Companies

    Can’t afford the bloody food when it reaches the supermarket anyway

    Well if you need them all you need to do is pay them really well and they will come.

    Really, met a lady whose husband is a truck driver.
    He is on a database to be called upon when the businesses are short on drivers to deliver essentials.
    Funny tho he hasn’t had a call. There are drivers out there prepared to help.
    So what really is the problem?

    As one who tried to get into the trucking industry I can tell you it is really hard. Even if you have all the requirements you can miss out due to lack of experience. Fines, ACC levy, liability insurance. All of this is big gamble money if you are unknown. Flip side is that outside of the military none I have heard of are training either. I suggest something like an apprenticeship scheme sponsored by the industry at large.

    Have they all gone to Aussie cause they get paid better. Always the same story about wages in NZ

    everybody is thinking about heading back over why stay when the government ripes you off all the time. They would rather have nz full of unskilled workers to get more votes

    $50 an hour and I’ll drive

    Source facebook NZ herald with trade jobs NZ.

    Note at the same time as winning media complaining they can’t get truck drivers, petrol too high etc, they are canning trains as they feel that is uneconomic. Well trains have only one driver and can get a lot more load on. Something is very wrong with NZ!

  20. Remember when Labour got in, after wondering why ‘chefs’ were the highest missing skill in our immigration and with NZ First said they would decrease the amount of visas until the housing crisis was over. Well now they don’t seem too popular in the polls as they have put through 165,000 visas for more people to stay in NZ and opened the borders for the scams to continue.

    According to The Guardian, New Zealand has one of the world’s highest per capita ratios of takeaway and fast food joints in the world. Family-owned fish and chip shops, kebaberies and Chinese takeouts are embedded in many New Zealanders’ weekly routines and rituals.

    I think NZ also now has one of the highest franchise rates per capita, wonder why?

    Obviously in woke land, this is seen as a wonderful thing and more wage subsidies to help these small business who seem to be in the media constantly whining about how great they are and should get more and more taxpayer support – nobody mentions obesity and diabetes in the media!

    Meanwhile, on planet practical, New Zealand has the third highest adult obesity rate in the OECD, and our rates continue to increase. One in three adult New Zealanders (over 15 years) is classified as obese, and one in ten children.

    Obesity is further problematic factor with Covid…

    • Hardly a surprise when a cut of meat, bread and milk will set you back 25 bucks.
      Can of coke and a bag of potato chips 4 bucks.

      Meat and dairy the biggest rip off at the Supermarket.

      • NZ Supermarkets competing with Offshore Buyers who pay higher prices and take larger volumes, also Supermarkets taking their 30-40% gross margin.

  21. so? if they had any patriotic bones at all they’d sell X percent in NZ at a lower price and cream it overseas with the rest….like most people who wave the flag, no real loyalty when it comes to cash.

  22. Happy to see some of the effects of the Wellington protest. If nothing else it revealed the true nature of the ‘be kind’ political class and it’s acolytes – total scum. To be replaced with total scum.

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