Another Poll, another chance for Labour to do nothing.
The latest Talbot Poll is another indicator of how quickly the electorate have turned on the extreme policy agenda of this hard right Government.
The anti-Treaty, anti-Māori, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-disabled, anti-renter, anti-beneficiary agenda is just too much for middle NZ.
Talbot highlights all this:
Labour – 34%
National – 31%
ACT – 10%
Greens – 10%
NZF – 6.1%
TPM – 4.4%
Government defenders will claim the tough economic decisions made to tighten the budget will pay off with a flourishing economy by election time.
Bullshit.
Inflation has fallen because they were generated by supply chain shuts downs, not because of Government spending!
This Government’s austerity agenda where public service budgets have been hollowed out to borrow for tax cuts we can’t afford has generated the economic conditions we are suffering under alongside culture war spite that excites the frothy fringes of the rights voter base but disgusts educated and principled voters.
The danger this puts on the political culture of the Left is that Labour don’t have to do anything and can simply glide to victory with nothing more than Chris Hipkins being the country’s emotional support Labrador.
Replacing this cruel hard right Government with another incremental Labour led nothingness isn’t a solution.
Labour have to do more than be slightly less spiteful than National.
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Is that a pink helmut or just the way light is catching his head?
Wheel. Nah, Chris just likes his dress-ups the way the other minor politicians and lots of kiddies do.
Somebody told him he looks pretty in pink and it went to his head.
Let’s not overthink this. If Luxon sickens others as much as he does me, and likewise his adoring acolyte Willis, and that other dreadful woman continues to excel as Wicked Witch of the Beehive, of course nobody will like them very much.
Yes sadly you are right the current group of women are disgusting hateful people .They seem to think there is some reason to hate every person in the country and make life as bad as they can .I dont think Ruth was anywhere as nasty as the current group .
Louise Upston was hated by her husband enough to leave , that says all I need to know of that horrid woman.
And now we have the lowering of wages of the hard working low paid we relied on in the pandemic .Oh how the entitled forget who really does the heavy lifting in NZ .Have we forgotten how it was the low paid that kept NZ going in those dark times .Remember the rubbish collectors ,super market worker police ,nurses ,teachers who all did the hard yards during that time .Where the previous government recognised their commitment and rewarded them with increased pay rates the current government is hell bent on revenge so are attacking them every way possable and now have directly attacked how much they can earn .
We remember. We remember ill-paid supermarket workers filling trolleys for online shoppers sitting safely at home. We remember police re-infected and injured protecting politicians hiding safely in the Beehive and declining to even listen to protestors, apart from Mr Peters. We remember health professionals exhausted on the job but somehow managing to keep going and we hope that too many don’t keep going offshore.
Great article. And if you want to see what a Labour government looks like after a right wing government and media have kidnapped it’s children – look at the UK. Tell me the difference in economic policy between Willis and Reeves – bending over backwards to defer to wealth by cutting jobs and spending in the public sector.
Chickens nearly all home for the CoC the roosting will be messy.
Chippy will be another Keir Starmer – watch!
Brian He’ll implement the two-tier society as Luxon and Starmer are doing, that’s how he’s programmed.
48.4% vs 47.1%. CoC only 1.3% behind. So it’s neck and neck, margin of error stuff. Astonishing that it is not worse for CoC. But then again, maybe not. How big exactly is the misanthropic coalition of social authoritarians, cryptoracists, climate-change deniers, Covid conspiracy believers and libertarian Trussonomic/chainsaw capitalism vandals in NZ? Maybe bigger than we think, and the more economically and mentally distressed people get, it can only grow.
I suppose the silver lining is having TPM under 5%. In theory Labour wouldn’t then have to rely on extremists.
you don’t understand MMP and you don’t understand basic NZ politics
Ennius NZ First, with Labour with a more versatile leadership, could be good.
Much as I detest the man he is doing a good job representing the country and will be NZF leader for anther 2 elections.I doubt of Hipkins will last that long but it would be hard for a new leader to go back to them as coalition partners
Only if Winston lives that long. Hipkins, despite your dislike is still a shoe in.
Agreed
like the current national party is doing right now having the river of filth party and the economic vandalisim party as partners .At least maori own and contribute a growing slice of the economy .
they will still hold 6 seats as all of them are elected unlike NZF who have no elected MP.So how could you exclude elected MPs for unelected river of filth people .
Much as I detest the man he is doing a good job representing the country and will be NZF leader for anther 2 elections.I doubt of Hipkins will last that long but it would be hard for a new leader to go back to them as coalition partners
It’s common on sites that anyone who forgets there own hi viz and helmet are given the pink set.
Fuck Labour. Vote Greens or TPM, they’re the only ones on the progressive ledger that will screw the scrum. Labour will drool on themselves and get voted out again.
Unless they take a sharper left turn than last time, you could be correct.
I don’t think Chippy is the man for the job.
Yes couldn’t agree with you more, Labour are for long ago let’s face it they have been cheerleaders for lots of shit that has gone down in our country over the last forty years.
Chippy has no balls at all and is definitely not the man for the job. But who in Labour is? They were set up as a working class party and are now very much part of the middle class. How many of Labour MPs don’t have a degree? Very Very few, what is more too many of them have no experience as activists working for change.
TPM and the Greens are the best!
I totally disagree Krautet, but sadly they will probably walk into the role without any real policy.
Remove GST a tax on the poorest!
Raise benefits, or find the jobs that MPs seem to think are out there on liveable wages.
Stop bringing in people to work for shit money, and shit conditions.
I know that they bringing in managers for maccers and these poor bastards work so many hours they never earn the minimum age – but they are subservient and will never make a fuss, nor join a union
Stop giving pension to every one over 65
Bring in financial transactions tax
Bring in wealth tax
Bring in capital gains tax.
Bring in taxes on wealth made from shares etc.
You know what we would hear is ‘oh dear capital flight’ these bastards can sod off with their capital and live somewhere else, I get tired of the scare tactics.
So right Michal – what I have read so far of yours. One would think that any person with a brain would understand by now the necessity of what you say – but too much time is put into the blame game and not enough into navigating round the reefs of
tribulation. Some blame MMP because it didn’t solve all our woes. This from Chris Trotter at Bowalley Road.
https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2025/03/whistling-past-graveyard.html
Here is an excerpt but do read the post right through; even if he thinks some things you don’t agree with, he has an understanding of the ins and outs we are subject to.
National hung on in 1993 because, under FPP, 35 percent of the vote was enough to secure them just enough seats to govern. But National, Act, and NZ First, if they continue, as Bolger’s government continued between 1990 and 1993, to implement policies opposed by a significant majority of the New Zealand electorate, should not anticipate a similar, by-the-skin-of-their-teeth, happy ending….
‘oh dear capital flight’
You might here that bs. but it won’t happen. Capitalists don’t up and leave with their factories, farms, forests, supermarkets, petrol stations, power stations, burger chains etc. The odd one might get the pip and leave but that just creates an opportunity for another capitalist. The business stays here and punters are still going to pour profit-bearing dollars through those businesses.
I can hear the cries of despair as works close down and people lose their local McDonald’s or KFC .Remember the queues after covid
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