Fascinating numbers from TVNZ Poll.
Labour is surging because National’s handling of the economy has been nothing more than a brutal austerity budget that slashed Government infrastructure and crashed the construction industry.
Luxon’s popularity is plunging because he’s a really poor communicator and his robot KPI delivery grates as the economy gets harsher.
NZF rising should scare the bejesus out of the Māori Party as the factions in side Labour want Winston more than they want Māori Party drama.
Greens get knocked down to 10% but that always happens when Labour do well.
ACT will feel the sting of being outpolled by Winston.
The don’t knows are very high at 12%.
The moment National Party vote starts collapsing we will see an Erica Standford tilt at leadership.
Depending on how frosty she will be with David and Winston that could trigger an early election.
If the economy gets worse, National will haemorrhage votes.
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Stanford is a politics graduate with no real experience in much at all. She won’t capture the 50 plus males who vote for common sense.
You could make that same statement and just replace the name Stanford with Luxon…
Both are greenhornes and both incapable of running a country…
You’ve got one who shaves his head and sticks his jaw out to try to look butch, tough, and a like he knows what he’s doing kinda guy, whose ‘ Dad bod’ appeals to over 50 males .
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The other who has tried to emulate Jacinda Ardern’s look but can’t hide the ‘mean girls’ personality and the superficial one dimensional ability.
Neither have the maturity or intellectual firepower required for true Prime Ministerial leadership.
A BA in Politics. So what? Probably gave her a good oversight at bachelor level but just an undergraduate degree. What comes after graduation is important. According to her wiki page she’s been accumulating life experience ever since. All sorts. A working mother with multiple jobs. Where she most likely learnt her craft, if you can call it that, was under the wing of former East Coast Bays MP Murray McCully. An apprentice of participation. Working in the office of an MP gives a good insight I would have thought. The rest is up her competence, her ability to follow party direction and in the long term, her resilience. And of course a positive relationship with her electorate – although with MMP that doesn’t seem to be a big thing any more for a political career. Give the girl a break.
As a 50 plus male, I find the comment highly amusing. Thanks for the party political broadcast though!
But but but but but polls bounce around
Bouncing down into the grave. To leave the soulless neoliberal gravedigger Hipkins as the victor, sadly
Erica ??? The lady who just recites populist lines ..But what would she do after finishing reading her one book on Soc Poly 101 ?
Haere ra NACTZis
Plaza
Stadium
Conference
Colosseum
Hobbiton
Commons
Agora
Hall
Symposium
Parliament
White House
Cathedral
Palace
Theatre
Vatican
Restaurant
Monastery
THE Knesset …
BUT , NO NO NO
wharenui or marae … too hard, too threatening for Erica and cohorts!
“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them,” Erasmus of Rotterdam- 1509.
But but but but Amanda’s beautiful biceps have yet to be fully utilised
“authority budget”
I take it you mean austerity budget … and, lets be straight up … this is all part of the neoliberal mindset that is driving most, if not all, current government “policy” – driven hard by Seymour and his ACT goons and fast by Dipshit Winston First and his cretinous acolytes. Luxon is simply a “Yes” man, and a figurehead, for those who are truly running things waiting to be axed when he is no longer useful to maintain the neolib playsheet.
Correct Bob. Luxon is now an inmate of the Green mile…dead man walking.
The PR from Luxon, our official leader, and the National party reminds me of an old Russian joke. The new man in charge of Russia comes into his office and finds a note and three envelopes. The note tells him that when he gets into trouble to open the first envelope and follow the instructions. When the new Russian chief gets into trouble with the nation he opens it. It tells him to blame is predecessor which he does. Luxon is blaming the Labour Party for his failings as in the joke. It works for a while for the Russian leader but then he is forced to open the second envelope. It tells him to reorganise which he does. It works for a while but eventually has to open the third envelope. It tells him to prepare three envelopes for his successor.
Luxon has yet to try the reorganisation ploy. He could become the victim of a reorganisation. He has a further option; organise a Royal commission or a delaying report or investigation.
Just keep in mind that a change in Government next year is extraordinarily unlikely given NZ’s voting history. Single-term governments have happened just twice; both were Labour and the last was 50 years ago.
Except this is a first time genuine coalition of three parties and with the tails wagging the mangy dog the electorate will be looking for a change. We have a PM that is clearly weak and unsuitable for the job. The coalition is a failed political experiment that has shown up the worst of the MMP system.
Not quite correct. Thousands of kiwis will have an Australian government before next year such are the dire policies this government are imposing on it’s citizens.
Luxon will be the one to make history. Don’t tell him, he’ll get a swelled head.
Well, Labour had a pretty big majority in 2020. True, had/needed coalition partners. But a mandate for change it is said. Trouble is some of the (proposed) changes didnt go down so well and those changes that were needed didnt happen, or were too slow. That’s politics!
The next Labour govt will need far more help from coalition parties. The Greens + TPM. NZF not a consideration now … but never say no in politics. Anyway, a Labour/Greens/TPM coalition will bring woes of it’s own. But cant be any worse than the current coalition, surely. That will be the selling point … and the pushback… come election time: that a left coalition can deliver for NZ, not only in the social space but economic settings, changes to taxation, funding infrastructure, and more. Why not? This coalition is pretty hopeless, even accounting for the headwinds.
It really does say something that with Luxon being so shit Hipkins must also be considered shit.
Very disconcerting title of yours…..did we think December 2026 ever looked certain for Luxon? A bit worrying if that was or is the case
Yes Nitrium but we are not living in normal times and can NZers tolerate this clown PM for another term with the two goons he has in tow (his coalition) I don’t think so. People are genuinely struggling and that is workers as well.
How low can NZ go?? Reading the news every day about our great little country’s progress /sarc. It’s hard work, demoralising and I wonder how low can we go, before we summon up determination to make change, or collapse with a hiss of a whoopee cushion!
Limbo! A catchy tune in 1962 when Chubby Checker sang it. The world was going up and up then and going down and down was something to laugh about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hrmctJ4lQ
Now – have a go before things get too serious on the one hand, or fun becomes enforced by officialdom to keep our minds occupied.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFLrAw8bTU
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