The Taxpayer’s Union Curia Poll is out and it’s bad news for the Right…
Labour – 35.2%
National – 34%
ACT – 11%
Green – 9.5%
Māori Party – 3.5%
Other – 4.7%
…the shine is now off Aloha Luxon.
His manipulation of Kiwi’s cost of living pain only to holiday in Hawaii while pretending to be in Te Puke is a political duplicity that once seen can’t be unseen.
National have misread the wider room, by attacking young people on welfare they are attracting angry vote, but alienating the middle who appreciate the universal experience of covid requires compassion not draconian bullshit.
National have no new ideas and the grumpy centre who flirted with Luxon are now seeing the extreme conflict politics of ACT and are walking away from that.
While the centre pulls back, polarisation increases and other pushes close to 5% threshold.
Wait until the economic impacts of Russia’s gas strangulation in winter on Europe begin.
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Bad news for the right who still poll higher than the left.
45% to the lefts 44.7%
Okay Martyn…
This would be during the Big Sam drama and before the good doctor drama. I wouldn’t read anything into it – the housewives will flip again when they realize Labour are just the same. Of more interest should be the “others” if the majority is NZ First this is dangerously close to Winston being back.
NZ First 2.6% (-0.7)
Winston Peters 4.2% (+1.9)
Luxon lost the Housewives when he started telling them what to do with their womb. Still a long way to go and plenty of time for him to make more of an idiot of himself.
Stop lying. He didn’t tell anyone what to do with their bodies. He holds a personal view that he has categorically stated isn’t the parties view and he has ruled out making changes to our abortion laws consistently.
News today that workers have had their biggest pay increase for 20 years underlines the fact that National and ACT must be kept out of power. YOU WILL NEVER GET A PAYRISE UNDER NATIONAL. EVER.
Misinformation Millsy strikes again.
Why do you want wages held down? Wages should go up, every single year. Workers in this country deserve and need decent payrises. People like you want to deliberately withhold much needed pay increase.
The pay for many has gone up dud to vast amount of OT worked due to worker shortage. Even with this increased pay some do not want to work . Sealords fishery are due to lose 10 million this year because the lack of staff means the fish cannot be processed and exported .This one example shows the state of play this government is forcing on employers .Less tax input means less money to spend on welfare hospitals education the list is endless but serious to all .
It takes a wealthy country to enact policies to prevent global warming and if we have another 3 years of this mob with Greens and Maori Party in the mix then we will be in a real mess .
Yeah, heaven forbid that employers have to give workers better pay and conditions, unlike your paradise of CHina or India where they work 12 hour days for 50c an hour.
Trevor, health workers numberi g 10s of thousands have had there base rate lifted from $5000+. Those doing extra shifts and overtime is not the reason for improved wages.
However, I agree that there will always be some, not all, that still will not want to work. Finding an answer to that issue has been going on for decades.
I notice you didnt mention that these payrises are barely keeping up with inflation and in many cases arent.
Funny that.
National have repeatedly held wages down since 1991. I think we just need to let inflation run for a bit so people can earn a decent wage. How would you like it if you were on the same real wage for 30 years. Because that is what a lot of workers had to deal with in this country.
I noticed you failed to mention National have said they won’t match wages with inflation.
I completely agree with you on that point. I have just received a pay rise which I am pretty certain I would not have got if National were in power right now.
I saw Wellington Free Ambulance and emergency services heading up towards Aro Valley earlier overnight.
Probably what they really needed was a veterinarian surgeon specialising in the cardiac arrest of penguins.
Tough shit though I ‘spose. INZ doesn’t want to let them into the cuntry.
Limited university training spots for vets and doctors from 30 years ago combined with woke justice https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/300636203/owner-of-dog-who-bit-vet-seeks-rehab-for-impounded-pooch-chopper and an immigration policy that seems to attract the crazies and crims https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/119758881/jailed-doctor-david-lim–who-now-identifies-as-a-female–has-been-denied-parole, combined with NZ’s low wages to export the professionals, is a part of NZ’s problem.
If the left can only get a couple of points out of the shit weeks for National and the leader over the time of the poll then it is the left that needs to worry .The next poll will be impacted by the Sharma mess and the signs of a party in disarray and not capable of leadering the country
I agree, the blind Nat voters are finally seeing through the Tencel Man (Slippery and a little shiny, supposedly good for you and looks great after 100 outings). Luxon’s preferred PM has dropped 2.9%.
However where those votes are going is quite mixed. Labour is not the main beneficiary.
Looking solely at the Curia poll, Act has actually risen 1% and this tracks with what I have been seeing online and IRL about lifetime Nats being disgruntled with Luxon’s inability to ‘take a stand’ and a general fear that National will not reverse Labours perceived egregious mistakes eg: 3 Waters, Co Governance. Labour has risen .5%, Greens 1% and Other 1.4%.
Also, worth noting that the Curia poll is somewhat different in that it looks solely at ‘decided’ voters intentions only. Meaning more people abstain from it potentially.
Curio/taxpayers union are the hard right wing tory NATZ supporters who run the poll would be suspect with their polls. To allow labour to be ahead of the tories would suggest that they pulled some of labour’s numbers back. As the experts said before, its too early to speculate who will win in 1 years time – only loser tory supporters have been believing the polls up to this time but as we see above they must be depressed today/nite.
Money must be pouring in
Other at 4.7%. Doing well this far out from election.
Polls are great when they confirm what you believe, and kinda suck when they don’t. Enjoy Ze Big Sauzarge Natzos!
The reality is there are fuck all polls run nationwide anyway a regular basis these days.
My my how the table turns and we have some sour puss comments today this shows a trend that being Te Pati Maori may decide.
It’s not necessarily a race or ethnicity issue Michelle, and not particularly helpful to keep peering at everything through that lens.
The pay for many has gone up dud to vast amount of OT worked due to worker shortage. Even with this increased pay some do not want to work . Sealords fishery are due to lose 10 million this year because the lack of staff means the fish cannot be processed and exported .This one example shows the state of play this government is forcing on employers .Less tax input means less money to spend on welfare hospitals education the list is endless but serious to all .
It takes a wealthy country to enact policies to prevent global warming and if we have another 3 years of this mob with Greens and Maori Party in the mix then we will be in a real mess .
You want the flood the country with immigrants to hold down wages and crowd New Zealanders out of jobs.
Your vision of NZ is a sweatshop economy, like CHina or INdia, where workers get bugger all.
If you can take your blinkers off and read about the situation in Queenstown over the last week where businesses are forced to close due to no staff and visitors not being able to spend money .I know you hate businesses and the hard working owners but if these place cannot open they earn no money and pay no taxes . These jobs are the ones that Luxon want to give to the 180000 on the benefit if they can get out of bed .
Perhaps if the business owners you love so much paid a decent wage, and gave them breaks and didn’t treat their workers like dirt, they might have people wanting to work for them
Hospitality workers are treated worse than Chinese sweatshop workers.
i’ve worked in QT, the wages were below national average and the rent was equal too, if not higher than, Auckland. if i was offered a job down there again, after i had finished laughing, i would say “no”.
i have a little sympathy for the businesses down there, but not much.
Trevor can you break down accommodation costs and cost of living costs for Queenstown?
There’s a big reason why Queenstown can’t attract employees.
Your last comment about getting out of bed is Bob like and below you Trevor.
Not sealord, but plenty to discourage workers into that industry just from Talleys. Clean it up! Sadly a broken toe seems to get a bigger fine from wokesafe than the NZ’s fishing industry death traps. Disgusting.
Fishing company Talley’s Group fined over decapitation of worker
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/fishing-company-talleys-group-fined-over-decapitation-of-worker/VVN3JKVNG3VSE4SZDLHR7MTO6U/
“Nelson-based fishing company Talley’s Group has been fined $73,520 and ordered to pay $21,000 reparations to the family of a man who was decapitated after a broken rope snapped back while hauling in a net full of tuna.”
“Maritime New Zealand maritime compliance general manager Harry Hawthorn said this was a “horrific accident” which highlighted what should have been done to manage the risks involved in deep sea fishing.
“In this case, the rope had already broken once, but the reasons for that had not been considered. The rope had been repaired, not replaced, and it broke again. The dangers of the snap-back zone had been identified but crew were still required to work in that area.
“In 2015 Talley’s was found guilty of the same charge after crewman Cain Adams died after falling 6.9 metres through an open hatch on the Capt MJ Souza, when the vessel was in port in Nelson.
The company was fined $48,000 and ordered to pay $35,000 in reparations.”
# NZ Fishing lives, don’t matter.
#Fishing donations do matter.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96106426/fishing-company-talleys-bankrolling-shane-jones-nz-first-campaign
“During the 2014 election candidate donations shows Talley’s contributed $42,500 to the campaigns of nine candidates (mostly National) standing for regional seats.”
Not sealord, but plenty to discourage workers into that industry just from Talleys. Clean it up! Sadly a broken toe seems to get a bigger fine from wokesafe than the NZ’s fishing industry death traps. Disgusting.
Fishing company Talley’s Group fined over decapitation of worker
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/fishing-company-talleys-group-fined-over-decapitation-of-worker/VVN3JKVNG3VSE4SZDLHR7MTO6U/
“Nelson-based fishing company Talley’s Group has been fined $73,520 and ordered to pay $21,000 reparations to the family of a man who was decapitated after a broken rope snapped back while hauling in a net full of tuna.”
“Maritime New Zealand maritime compliance general manager Harry Hawthorn said this was a “horrific accident” which highlighted what should have been done to manage the risks involved in deep sea fishing.
“In this case, the rope had already broken once, but the reasons for that had not been considered. The rope had been repaired, not replaced, and it broke again. The dangers of the snap-back zone had been identified but crew were still required to work in that area.
“In 2015 Talley’s was found guilty of the same charge after crewman Cain Adams died after falling 6.9 metres through an open hatch on the Capt MJ Souza, when the vessel was in port in Nelson.
The company was fined $48,000 and ordered to pay $35,000 in reparations.”
# NZ Fishing lives, don’t matter.
#Fishing donations do matter.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96106426/fishing-company-talleys-bankrolling-shane-jones-nz-first-campaign
“During the 2014 election candidate donations shows Talley’s contributed $42,500 to the campaigns of nine candidates (mostly National) standing for regional seats.”
Nationals one trick, one dimensional rich man’s tax cuts scare the daylights out of enough voters who want a health system they can access but know they can’t with tax cuts.
I don’t read much into the Uffindel drama in this poll as it’s old news that National routinely pick privileged duds, so much so it comes across as just another storm in a National Party gin glass. And I expect Sharma will just become another whingy whiny entitled annoyance. Actually, he’s there already!
The real problem for National is Luxon remains dull, unimaginative and unlikable, like Nationals offerings! At a time when peak dissatisfaction with Labour is present!
It’s no longer enough to not be Judith Collins!
100%
Totally agree. I do see that the government is stepping up in a bid to at least attempt to meet the expectations of our country’s healthcare workers but unfortunately there’s still many other aspects besides pay which need to be addressed as soon as possible. Let us not forget that our health system began coming apart at the seams under this country’s three successive John Key led National governments.
What’s a matter Pip do you have the pips, so if its not a race or ethnicity issue is it a class and religious one ? And I am just repeating the trend.
Silly stuff. This poll covers the Ufindell suspension. The next poll will feature the Sharma affair. Pssst…National will be back in the lead again.
You could well be correct but for how long?
Jacinda Ardern is being rewarded for all her hard work since 2017 with consistently high polls. John Key polled high consistently also but bear in mind that he had the support of the financial almighty behind him, the Rothschilds, Sir Michael Fay, etc.
Money on the next election, Luxon will be in the back benches as the new stars arise.
Labeen being lulled into false sense of security by continuing all the things that the middle class hate that the Natz capitalise on, but Labeen think are wonderful, until outlined 2 weeks before the election by Natz . Worked for Natz in 2014 – an election they should not have won.
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