Labour – 26.8
National – 40.9
Greens – 12.3
ACT – 10.1
NZF – 4.6
MP – 3.1
The next election is 5 weeks away on Saturday, 14 October 2023.
Shit just got real and the consequences of incremental meaninglessness from Labour alongside the crypto-fascism of a National/ACT Government mean you want to cry or scream as a voter.
NZ First’s bizarre voyage into antivax culture war graffiti isn’t the vote winner Winston hoped for and he’s changed tact to garden variety antiMāori bigotry to ensure he gets over 5%.
It’s as charming as a children’s burns unit.
The Maori Party continue to bubble away as the surprise of the night while ACT want to give sociopaths their favourite submachine gun back.
Labour continue to surprise everyone by their incremental gutlessness while the Greens are surprised to find all they need to do to reach what Russel Norman gained as Leader in 2011 is be slightly less spineless than Labour.
Comrades we are 5 weeks out from the 2023 election, here is the current Election Battlefield 2023 as TDB sees it.
It ain’t over till the fat blogger sings!
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The commentors on here will be loving it. The resent every single cent being spent on making peoples lives better and just want tax cuts and for businesses and farmers to fire workers en mass and pour what they like down the drain.
Hows $54,000,000 spent on the bike bridge grab you Millsy? Fifty four million dollars just pissed away, nothing to show for it. Nothing!
Short memories are a wonderful thing.
The bike bridge feasibility study was demanded by the St.Heliers, Kohimarama, Herne Bay, Takapuna, Northcote Point, lurid Italian Racing Team lycra padded crotched garbed cafe cruisers who gathered in their hundreds and illegally burst through a police cordon and rode towards the Harbour Bridge protesting about how they should not be denied the right to be able to ride from the city to Takapuna for a morning coffee.
It was pretty obvious that it was going to be extremely difficult to attach a bike lane to a 65 year old bridge but protest they did even phoning the media to be there.
The only way to pacify the whining, spoilt ,coffee infused dummy suckers, and shut them up, was to initiate a feasibility study. That costs money!
Maybe those whiny privileged people should pay the money back to the taxpayer!
No! Instead, those same ‘squeezed middleclass’ tantrum throwing whiners complain that the government has been wasting ‘their money’ money and want a tax break !!
Unsure if you think I’m a bike lobbiest, I’m not. But otherwise
I agree with your comment that these gold medal winning manipulators were playing to their inside man, Michael. My point was we can’t fund cancer drugs first world countries can because we have ministers like Wood who think money grows on trees and believed it was his god given right to blow it. And Millsy can never see this and it what idiots this government are!
At least with the Buyback, they spent over $200 million to lots of people new guns & created over 100000 ghost semi-autos. That’s a Labour success for you. The Registry will waste even more.
At least with the Buyback, they spent over $200 million to buy lots of people new guns & created over 100000 ghost semi-autos as well. That’s a Labour success for you. The Registry will waste even more.
30,000 more people on surgery wait list than when Labour came into power.
25,000 on Kāinga Ora’s wait list currently without a house, tripling in size since Labour came into power.
Announced in 2017 the promise by Labour to build 100,000 homes – by September 2023 only 1834 built, or 1.8% of that promised.
NZ has the worst current account balance in the OECD.
And the highest OCR rate in the world.
Net debt has gone from $5.4 billion in 2019, to $78.7 billion in 2023.
211,00 kids living in benefit dependant homes, which is 39,000 more kids than when Labour’s government began 6 years ago.
The list of Labour failures is long. Worst government ever.
OK Karen.
Well if you had your way, there would be thousands more people on the streets.
Wait till the Prefu comes out and people realise just how bad Robertson and Orr have managed the economy.
At this rate Luxon could murder a baby lamb during the leaders debate and still get through….
Which makes it all the more remarkable that we can’t afford tax cuts. Worse still National knows it.
Vote TOP for real change. They DONT do incremental…
TOP won’t be in Parliament, don’t waste your vote.
TPM released their justice policy and that should scare the living daylights out of any sane voter. And I’m in no doubt that would be the path woke Labour would have us go too!
I agree 100 percent. What happened to one country one law . Be afraid very afraid if they get power
As opposed to cops being able to dish out summary executions and beatings for petty offences.
Is that the Martian police or just plain old human police in El Salvador, Millsy? Asking for a friend!
That comment paints you as deranged.
Only about 4 people watch Q & A or even know what it is. So the debates are not going to really matter.
Voter peeps see a PM in waiting, who has lots of energy and is giving tax relief and has a strong team around him.
yep – 4 ex National leaders – watching to see if Luxon has serious credibility issues just like they did. and they won’t be disappointed. Conservatives are bereft of ideas. ACT are the only right wing party worth anything and that’s not saying much.
Millsy if you are a middle manager your in trouble. Luxon and Seymour will bark out orders and endless KPIs to them.
But if you are a Frontline worker you will he fine under Luxon. Probably do better.
Marco, your last comment is completely wrong, by every measure front line workers are worse off under National, fact.
The fact that the polls are up and down like a whore’s drawers tells that us that they’re basically bullshit. Que sera sera.
There are various possible reasons:
> The sample size is too small.
> The responders are taking the piss and not replying honestly (what I do LOL)
> The reliance on cell phones means they’re contacting people who either are ineligible or not registered to vote.
> The pollsters aren’t truly independent.
(Last time I looked at a dictionary, the fascists were people who were race obsessed and wanted to segregate people by ethnicity. So, who is that in NZ?)
BOOM your worst nightmare is happening .
While 5 weeks can be a long time in politics I have the champagne in the fridge .
What the hell for Trevor? Awful Labour being replaced by a National government whose flagship policy is to drive house prices in areas like Auckland through the roof? A lot of people were complaining when this happened under Labour. I guess you are a glass is half full ( of nitrates) kinda a guy.
Drink your champagne because after the election, many will struggle to afford to drink water.
The concrete shoes have now set.
The anti Labour vibe is self fulfilling.
Labour will learn from this but it could be 9 years.
In the meantime we will suffer.
Thanks Labour.
Labour didn’t learn anything from their previous 9 years in the wilderness. What makes you think that “this time it’s different” ? I predict the usual echo chamber of socialist envy & blameshifting.
Political survival means they will.
I’m not so sure there is a come back for Labour this time!
Not one single thing has gotten better under Labour. They are no longer the party of the working class. NZ is in the worst shape in history. Why would anyone want to vote for more of the same?
I don’t vote left or right. I vote for what is best for me and my family. Labour has made all our lives and our future really quite dismal. I won’t be sad to see them gone for the next 20 years.
While I despise this labour government lets not get hyperbolic. The country was in far worse shape in the 80’s when we had a run on the dollar and a constitutional crisis.
only thing worse than a sore loser, is a gloating winner.
Let’s face it, we were probably lucky to get the second term.
This is the lefts own fault. All the woke, nanny state, tax you to death, micro aggression, anti free speech, faux outrage, virtue signaling drama has destroyed our main party.
Will we learn before the Nats have won at least two terms? Doubtful. In fact I think the left will be more loopy and unhinged. Clint Smith, Neale Jones, Dave Cormack and the rest of the professional managerial class, should never be listened to again.
Get back to your grass roots base Labour!
Sam the Man said it all for me. Sam for PM !
There can be little doubt that Chris Hipkins has alreadywritten his mea culpa speech.
I can hear it now:
“People are hurting. “Mistakes have been made”, “I should have taxed the rich and make a fairer tax system” “I should have taken GST off food”
Look for Chris Hipkins most common catch phrase, “I want to apologise.” to get another airing
Hear the cringeworthy Natzos and their unbelievable hype: ‘NZ is in the worst economic crisis ever’. What a load of crap! Labour has done some things right. Not enough but give them credit. The Nact supporters conveniently ignore that the world’s economies are in crisis due to COVID and Ukraine war. Even China is in trouble and the UK is a basket case with the additional baggage of Brexit. How would you like to pay the horrendous energy bills the Brits have to? The problem with Nact is they can’t see beyond their backyard. They have no idea of the world. We live in a democracy and perhaps the other lot deserve a turn but it won’t be long before their failed policies will cause a far bigger disaster than anything we have now. I will continue voting Green but I think TOP deserves a look as well as it was founded by an economist who knew his discipline well.
Yes and to hear Luxon sideswipe a direct question on Nationals economic policies by saying Robertson will go down as the worst finance minister in NZ history clearly shows how clueless he is. But Luxon is no politician, that is why he has no detail to any of his answers and has Willis always whispering in his ear.
NZ is in serious trouble when National take over just as it was when they left Labour a massive mess to clean up.
What’s with journalists using this new “lessness” word crap lately?
I mean is “meaninglessness” not the same word as “meaningless”?
The other one is “Homelessness” used very well by the Rotorua Mayor.
The extra quantity is a syllable not really needed.
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