The fury of the attack by the Right over Maiki Sherman’s reporting of the TVNZ Poll is explained by this graph…
…when you visualise what the Roy Morgan, Talbot and TVNZ Poll means in terms of support you understand the spastic response of fury and rage by the Right.
The truly polarised have believed their own echo chambers where everyone agrees with them and the idea that the 100 days of romper stomper culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy has damaged popular support is unfathomable to them.
No one else should be surprised, they shit they are ramming through is toxic madness, the hilarious bit is that if you are mad now, wait until their lobbyist talking points get fleshed out into policy.
The venal nakedness of the agenda benefiting their rich mates (while everyone else is suffering a steep economic recession) will enrage voters even more.
Kiwis expect their Government to look after everyone (them included) they don’t expect nor want a Government that looks after their wealthy donors first and everyone else second.
If the Poll meant nothing, you wouldn’t see Chris Bishop suddenly promising to tone down the Fast Track powers, 72 hours ago his position was kiss my arse, now it’s sit downs and talks.
Pretending the Poll doesn’t matter misses the enormity of what just happened.
The middle voter is walking away from the Right because this isn’t centrist, this is a hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government and is an anathema to our Egalitarian pretences.
The next friction point will be first time home owners, 55% of whom are coming off low mortgage rates and walking onto much higher ones, hitting the wall with a wave of mortgage sales.
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…And now Seymour has suddenly come out and stated that school lunches are staying for the time being ….possibly for another couple of years while a review is being carried out.
Back peddling faster than a clown on a monocycle in a circus tent!
But hey!!!… the polls are meaningless…yeah right!!
Grant, the right wing are career politicians and like their salaries too much. They have no real job experience and it shows.
Luxon seems to have lead a pretty sheltered life, and it shows, but the Greens are also generally devoid of real life real work experience. Seymour may be proof that having a few brains doesn’t necessarily confer human decency or even basic commonsense, just a handy smattering of opportunism, but Luxon’s cranium seems just as empty on the inside as the outside.
Will Seymour try to pretend muesli bars and other packaged items full of salt and sugar are a suitable replacement for what’s currently provided. Sounds like that would enable corner dairies or supermarkets to clip the ticket better rather than schools having control of what is produced for lunch and how money is spent.
Luxon crowed last year that they’d do school lunches ‘better’ but that sounds like they’d just be falling back on packaged snack foods which aren’t enough for lunch for growing children.
As always Seymour’s vast lack of knowledge of children and education in general, writ large.
Wastage will always be a factor but compared to what they are planning to give in tax-cuts, quibbling about it seems parsimonious.
Obviously, no-one in a charter school would ever be guilty of wasting anything!
Never mind that the whole thing is an exercise in massive waste and duplication.
Seems funny we are seeing such back-pedalling at the moment but it’s not enough to placate many.
The truly polarised have believed their own echo chambers where everyone agrees with them and the idea that the 100 days of romper stomper culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy has damaged popular support is unfathomable to them.
No one else should be surprised, they shit they are ramming through is toxic madness, the hilarious bit is that if you are mad now, wait until their lobbyist talking points get fleshed out into policy.
The venal nakedness of the agenda benefiting their rich mates (while everyone else is suffering a steep economic recession) will enrage voters even more.
It is obvious to me on the ground that the comfortably off are out of touch with NZ/AO overall reality and have little empathy for those suffering from the rampant government disdain for citizen fairness standards. It seems Gnats focus groups and advisors are shut up in a Faraday ball with their words bouncing off the sides. I think they are like Rapunzel in the folk tale, shut up in a high tower. We call out from the base, ‘let down your hair’ then we can help you to live as a real person in community and togetherness.
The Rapunzel tale known from German Grimm’s, follows a French and Italian (1600s) similar. The old stories have been gathered and date back yonks. They are still relevant, don’t dismiss them or take them literally; they are analogies and require a moment’s consideration rather than blunt and fast pre-judged decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel
Yep, they’re worried all right. These two polls show just how far the wheels have come off the coalition of chaos. The more politically astute of the Gnats know this, despite the ideologs of ACT and the tin foil hatters of NZF putting on a brave face. It’ll be interesting to see if this affects Ruth Richardson’s clone in her budget. We’ll know by the end of the month.
Ruthless Chris Bishop back peddling on regulating property managers puts him in the same Wild West category as David Seymour using Paula Bennett to implement his Pharmac agenda. Failing to regulate property managers will do nothing to solve any issues of housing supply, nothing at all, and tobacco boy needs to know that the public are not as stupid as he thinks that they are, and certainly not as stupid as he is.
Here was one chance to offer renters protection from unscrupulous exploiters, inadequates, scoundrels and bullies, and Bishop has declined to do it.
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