The Daily Blog warned you last month and as early as February that there was the possibility of a snap election.
That reality is finally trickling out to the mainstream media…
Why Peters has stepped up his undermining of Luxon
Greens tighten candidate selection process and preparing for snap election
‘We are ready to go’: Labour talks up potential for snap election
…folks, you can read it here first, or wait for the mainstream media to read it here first and then report on it a month later.
As The Daily Blog argued LAST MONTH, the deep budget cuts in Nicola Willis’ next Budget are so extreme they are panicking NZ First.
There are back channels occurring between NZF and Labour as a faction inside Labour start to panic that the extreme nature of the Māori Party would make including them in any future Government dangerous and a vote killer for Labour.
The triggers for a snap election are all around the budget and the transition of Deputy between Winston and Seymour.
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Good, this terrible govt, the worst in at least 50 years, needs to be binned.
The Coalition showing themselves to be more competent than the Labour Government were, we can expect a landslide for the Right if a snap were to take place.
Yep David it will be a landslide that buries you and this abysmal excuse for a govt.
‘The Coalition showing themselves to be more competent than the Labour Government were, we can expect a landslide for the Right if a snap were to take place.’
Give it a rest Bob! You will go blind at this rate.
LONG LIVE SOCIALISM1 FUCK CAPITALISM!
This government is doing so much damage and we need them gone
Lo, you have already forgotten the last Government.
“Lo, you have already forgotten the last National Government.”
fixed
Sadly forgotten compared to this corrupt lot, Labour were at least competent!
“the worst in at least 50 years”.. That would take us back to the Muldoon government, who just happened to be the first tory government to openly attack the legal foundations of the union movement..
Historicly speaking, the Muldoon represent simply the first wave of what has become a decades long assault upon what our past generations fought, and died to protect…
The current rabble is nothing more than the “occupying administration”.. The consolidation of the occupying power, and the imposition of the appropriate regulatory/legal framework to maintain total control of the populace.. Margaret Thatcher will be proud!!
Martyn – This sounds like the media trying to make a story out of nothing…
If it doesn’t fit the narrative it’s a media beat up, much like 3 waters, right?
Yes 3 Waters was a rort a complete scam.
An election would secure the party of choice for the next 6 years . I hope it is National but really with MMP any result is possible .We only need to go back to 2017 to see how the second party got into power .
I think if ACT or NZF caused an election they would suffer a back lash as middlecincome voters hate uncertainty as it hits the back pocket
Hoping is not coping, the current National lot have proven useless. Similar as 2017 Luxon is only PM because Winston put him there. I would wager that when Winston finally calls it a day so will MMP as we know it.
At the moment I believe the Parties, Labour/Green/TPM, have never been less popular and as such a snap election would see the Coalition Parties increase their percentage of the vote.
Don’t be so sure.
The opinion polls mean bugger all.
That’s the thing about you right wingers you are so damn sure of yourselves as the Natural Govt of any day that you aren’t.
The younger generations are much more on to it than you give yourselves credit for.
Labour neo liberals may be Freaking out but lets not forget the number of Young Maori voters on the Maori roll have doubled as have younger Green party followers.
2026 or the next election the neo liberals are on the way out because the younger generation have been screwed over once to often.
Oh and lets not forget the latest clowns knocking a lot of young peoples university education on the head by removing the 1st year free of fee’s to the last year.
That further enhances the vote for the Right.
But the right vote is mainly older and dying.
The Younger vote 16 up to 40 is more switched on bob.
Unlike the cooker anti maori vote.
How did your Hobson Pledge vote treaty principals bill go ?
It brought 150,000+ onto the streets and 300,000 submissions against.
Then you say that enhances the right sorry mate you are in LALALAND.
Your beliefs are like religion, believe in the impossible, here let me change your water into wine Bob the knob. Your usless right wing parties are corrupt and the people of NZ will vote them out next election or snap election. Your support of the right only enhances the vote for the left.
I’d prefer to see an early revolution followed by hangings later.
Roger’s ( National party ) neoliberalism has wasted more than forty years of our lives and destroyed ( Sold ) our world-first public infrastructures.
Don’t be so sure.
The opinion polls mean bugger all.
That’s the thing about you right wingers you are so damn sure of yourselves as the Natural Govt of any day that you aren’t.
The younger generations are much more on to it than you give yourselves credit for.
Labour neo liberals may be Freaking out but lets not forget the number of Young Maori voters on the Maori roll have doubled as have younger Green party followers.
2026 or the next election the neo liberals are on the way out because the younger generation have been screwed over once to often.
Quite the contrary the youth of today are not influenced by the tired arguments of yesteryear, down at pit, come up from mill, the Watersiders lock out.
” Good, this terrible govt, the worst in at least 50 years, needs to be binned. ”
And replaced by what ?
Re elect what we have now ?
Or a LINO party that takes the place of National with Winston calling the shots ? More incrementalism , same old status quo that no longer pleases anyone below a six figure salary , and got voted out just 18 months ago. Winston was blamed in 2017-20 for putting the hand break on and denying a possible center left program that never existed. It suited Ardern , Robertson and all the other neo liberal caucus members and their donors that it was business as usual with no pressure being applied by the Green party for a more center left policy position.
Every time we are asked to vote its the same actors on stage who don’t hide the fact that they are all rich and sorted and have no first hand experience of how harsh life has become for the many victims of their policies whether its a National led or LINO led government the fundamentals never change. Just more lies , bullshit and corruption under one government or the other. This is what Bernie and AOC are fighting against the same agenda. Just a different country and flag.
Its become so repulsive that many are just not taking part in the process any longer. And now Winston is possibly going to force an early general election on the country because it suits his strategic interests and his donors.
Their arrogance is stifling.
Our political system needs binning along with the current useless govt. A dog that has its tail wag it is bad enough but a dog wagged by two tails is terminal. The current model of MMP is not working for NZ. All MP’s should be required to be elected. The subsequent vetting process would then become more vigilant in selecting candidates. List MP’s are just party hacks. So at the moment it comes down to the better of two evils, Labour is the better in my view.
Oh and by the way Jacinda Ardern never boasted that she was rich or sorted, quite the opposite in fact. The problem for Ardern was that males in the 35 – 65 age group don’t like being led by a young woman. It never ceases to amuse me how Ardern can be called a neoliberal and a socialist and a communist and a fascist all at the same time, mainly from the same misogynist male (and the odd female) rednecks that threatened to kill her.
” Oh and by the way Jacinda Ardern never boasted that she was rich or sorted, quite the opposite in fact ”
I never said that. Read it again. I was referring to all the MP’s in parliament ( actors on stage ) who are insulated by their huge salaries and perks including your party hacks and pay lip service to the many crises that many of our people are being subjected to.
Arden actually stood for nothing at all when it came to progressive polices that would have made a difference.
I agree with you regarding MMP that was intended to bring better representation and accountability. Its failed miserably and encourages more entitlement and political representatives being out of touch , in particular list MPs.
The biggest tragedy of all is that we are faced with ” two evils ” when it comes to electing a government.
Forty years of neo liberal and vested interests have helped in creating that.
I read it again, I think you should read it again, and think about how what you typed came across before hitting the keyboard again.
Grow up Phil. Your embarrassing yourself.
FFS that comment is pathetic, especially coming from someone with the moniker ‘stand strong and fight’.
Stay hard and wank more like it
Yeah about right. Had you down as one of those.
Phil you can’t have Jacinda. She is already married.
I agree with much of what you say, it underlines the weakness of MMP.
So David you admit that Act are just the result of the weakness of MMP.
eH!, WHEN HOW, easter birth again, half way, now this them treason back. eh! wit,
As bad as this government are, the prospect of The Greens and TPM anywhere near the corridors of power scares the bejesus out of anyone not off their meds voting Labour.
Agree Jack, and this is why Labour are shitting themselves for any early election, they will lose at least 5-8% because Greens and Maori party will be needed to form govt.
NZ1st will get the soft Labour vote boost (2%) the rest will just not vote.
But Labour are the best and only choice as Phil makes good points its MMP that produces the waggy tails