Boom…
Poll results: Labour jumps to 38% after capital gains tax announcement
The Talbot Mills/Anacta poll was conducted between November 1 and 10, for corporate clients, so it began in the days after Labour’s policy announcement.
Labour – 38
National – 33
Greens – 9
NZF – 8
ACT – 7
MP – 2.4
The most important part of this is the fact its was taken AFTER Labour’s Targeted Capital Gains Tax, so all that screwing by the Right Wing Trolls that Labour would collapse after the announcement shows that the electorate is far more mature than ZB listeners.
No surprises that the Māori Party continue ti meltdown as their train wreck continues ti explode.
NZF and ACTs extremism and polarisation continue to alienate more than they attract with National pulling votes away from them as soft blue voters flee to Labour.
Greens take a hit, but that was always going to happen after Labour’s Capital Gains Tax announcement (this is why it was important Labour didn’t launch a wealth tax).
On these numbers the Left bloc wins which only highlights how important it is for te Pati Māori not to self mutilate themselves any more than they have.
The economy is melting down, 73 000 fled the country and it is directly attributable to National’s desirous policies.
The numbers are being run now on Luxon’s leadership inside the National Party.
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Some would have been happy about the CGT Labour suggested but once it sinks in that Greens and TPM would use it as a kick start to far higher taxes the gloss will rub off . Jacinda was a very smart cookie and knew how to read a room and she saw CGT as a mill stone .
I’ll put it simply for our moron cousins like Trevor.
If you want a first world country, you’re going to have to pay for it. No decrease in your tax liability is going to cover the increased costs of providing first world services and infrastructure.
Instead you’re part of the growing cohort of spoiled children who want everything their own way but don’t want to suffer any inconvenience or pay for anything.
If you hate government and taxation, feel free to piss off to the Highlands of PNG where there is precious little of either.
I’ll give you 3 months before you’re either dead, kidnapped or come crawling back in tears, thankful that you can go brmm brmm in your Fraud Rager.
Most rich 1st world countries don’t just rely on taxes but sell commodities for good profit. Australia would be a basket case without exploration and mining. But we are too stupid and too fucking woke for that. It’s time to get real.
Yea, the tax from those commodities.
Yes higher taxes toll roads terrible isn’t it trev
And the woman in control, Willis< looks tarty by the day…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the-ritual-and-reality-behind-new-zealands-endless-political-announcements-david-harvey/premium/MG6UJXZFNNA5TJFFEAVNEJZZUE/
“Jacinda was a very smart cookie and knew how to read a room and she saw CGT as a mill stone”.. Mind reader are you? I doubt it very much… Projectionist more like…
Whilst Aderns social policies were humane to a point way past the limits of what the British colonial power structure has ever been capable of… Her economic basis was always incremental, and right wing in it’s overall thrust… She was never going to have the spine to introduce a CGT.. That assessment does not require me to be able to “read her mind”… It’s simply by listening to, and watching her words and actions, or lack thereof… Your statement is a rather obvious display of the mediocre and self serving fantasy that passes for political comment in NZ in far too many households recently..
Government revenue wouldn’t have had to have risen if Nicola Willis hadn’t borrowed way more than Jacinda while fiscal suicide by spending way more on cancelling the IRex ferries. Enough is enough. National has totally destroyed any that they posses “sound economic management.” Let’s not forget the idiotic notion that the National Party could ever double base load energy supply with what economic management??? You live in a fantasy world trev.
On the ferry debacle alone the South Island should turn red
Nikki No- Boats has driven the economy like she’s driven the ferry deal….. straight off the end of a very high wharf…
I think everyone, except the seriously deluded, now realise, that Willis is way way way way out of her depth….clueless ..and, like the current ferries…not fit for purpose!
Most other 1st World countries have a CGT + wealth taxes and/ or inheritance taxes….
The one being put forward by Labour is at the tamer end of the scale and most thinking Kiwis now get it and can see how rigged the current system is for the wealthy.
It is so easy to make a tax free passive income in N.Z…. if you already have money…
why did all the wealthy cashed up Chinese and Indians flooded in here and buy up a significant number of our houses..
Why do you think that a significant number of real estate agents in N.Z. are disproportionately Chinese..
Why? …because they can see that good old, naive , weak, unregulated,
soft touch N.Z. is a gold mine for them to exploit and make money out of our property market.
Kiwis finally get it ….and when parents, who now have adult children, can see that their offspring don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever owning a house, because they are now nearly 1 million dollars for a crappy dog box, then protective survival instincts
kick in.
This is why Labour is now surging in the polls…
Good point Sam and well communicated
Or, Trevor, most people realise that you can’t have public services, hospitals, schools, roads, power and clean water etc. without paying for them and that means collecting tax. We like to think we are like the Scandinavian countries when it comes to recognising the value of the common good. This tends to prove that doesn’t it? People in general, are much more mature than the present govt. of screaming, destructive toddlers.
They also, would far prefer paying some more tax, we are not overly burdened by the way, than allowing a bunch of lazy parliamentarians to further erode our asset base, which once gone, will not be recoverable.
Furthermore, most people recognise that they will not really be affected by the CGT if they don’t own numerous properties, which everyone now understands, are owned for the purpose of making a big profit.
That’s income that should be taxed. They won’t get nothing when they sell their properties but they will pay what they rightfully should pay, for everyone’s benefit. Yours too, because we do not begrudge you free hospital care if you should need it. We are not grudgingly mean like some.
Jacinda was a very smart cookie? Oh yeah, that’s why she appointed a trans activist group (PATHA) to develop guidelines for treating gender-confused kids, required school boards to “uphold the treaty” (whatever that means), decreed that maatauranga was
“co-equal” with modern science etc. Hell yeah, smart cookie.
Do fuck off Pope Pusface.
You’re obsession with Jacinda is very, very, very creepy.
And you’re also fine with the rape and sexual assault of prisoners.
I think someone needs to check your hard drive.
At least she cared about the people who live in NZ .
Well, she figured out how to trigger you.
Put a sock in your mouth PP2
Well smarter than the whole coalition at least Pompos Pope.
Finally, someone kicked the cgt sacred cow in the ass and the sky didn’t fall on them. It doesn’t even matter whether the tax is a big earner for government coffers. CGT brings a perception of fairness to our tax system.
Yes, and maybe people can see they have been played by the CoC as local water done well is bullshit it is going to cost us more and soon many NZers won’t be able to afford the costs added to their rates bill and landlords will start rising rents again to offset these increases. We also will not be able to afford congestion charges and tolls to drive on our roads or drink and use water. Council will have huge debts from local water done well and they are going to have to pay this debt somehow.
What’s happened to all the RW cheerleaders – cat got ya tongue?
Don’t you just wish that New Zealand could figure out a fit-for-purpose tax system and do the root and branch restructuring to implement it – instead of this constant, useless, tinkering.
SENSITIVE CONFIDENTIAL EMERGENCY PRIORITY MESSAGE, National party president to Luxon office head of staff. You must immediately increase all measures to prop up Luxon’s poll numbers. This is not a drill. I mean we have to try everything.
The ten point plan I’ve been able come up with, after canvassing suggestions from comprehensive proactive brainstorming includes:
-administering meth to Luxon every hour to keep him chipper
-a complete blood transfusion to start every day
-squirrel testosterone tablets and tabasco sauce enemas
-injection of dermal filler into lips and eyelids
-botox, tooth bleaching, and a professional smile coach
-bicep, pectoral, and buttock implants
-canauba wax noggin polishing treatment
-booking an authenticity and sincerity whisperer
-periodic lsd consumption to make him appear more whimsical
-hypnotic suggestion, that every polling decrease will feel like he’s stuck his genitals into an angry bees nest while being electrocuted and having an elephant stand on his testicles.
I was going write a deeply meaningful response about hyper-excitment and premature orgasms from the lefties, but then I remembered it’s just a Talbot Mills poll. Hipkins: “Here’s an extra 10K guys, make sure we come out on top.”
Yawn.
You KH and a deeply meaningful response?
Don’t make me laugh!
Krautet Haus, you are like the seamen that never made it, waste of time.
If National Want to Truly Remain in Existence then it’s time they Moved with the Times and Removed those current MPs and Formers MPs that are Dragging them down.
National has held onto too many MPs that have been nothing short of Troughers eg Judith Collins and Gerry Brownlee. They have also allowed into their midst the sort of Arrogant MPs and Bullies who are NOT in the roll to be s Service to their Electorate but more likely What they can get out of their Roll of an MP for Their Electorate for THEMSELVES. It is a long-term disease on Their part.
And then there is the matter of National’s current so-called leader. He comes across as being an attention seeking for photo opportunities aka Pavlova Seeking Weakling and Coward and Yet Not a True Leader but a Part-time prime minister who is Often Missing in Action. He has allowed himself to be Controlled and Manipulated by both Seymour and the Atlas Network. He is in Reality a Failure of a prime minister even when here in New Zealand.
Luxon and of course Willis are Living Proof of All that is Wrong with the Government of this country. They have lost complete Touch with Reality. NZers have lost Confidence in this Circus of a government.
Lets look at Luxon’s eyes. I have the quote that the Eyes are the Mirror to the Soul of a Person. Luxon’s eyes look like he has completely Switched off from being a prime minister. He is Dead From the Head Down. He has No/Zero interest in this country and its population. And also Willis no longer stares at him in an Adoring manner but probably in the expression of “Can This Fuck-Wit Ever Get Anything Right????!!!! But that also describes Willis all too perfectly as well.
National Need to Now Make a Decision and a Hard Decision at That. Either they Keep Luxon who along with himself is also Reducing National in the Polls or they face the consequences of THEIR actions and be rid of Luxon, Willis, Brown, Bishop, Brownlee, Stanford and so many others who have done National No Favours.
If they cannot face reality then they are Not Fit to be in Government.
This is why your voice matters so much in this crowded online space
It finally looks like Labour are shifting from its central neoliberal perch . After 20 or more years of protest votes I might actually be able to vote for them again .
” It finally looks like Labour are shifting from its central neoliberal perch ”
I wouldn’t bet on it. I will believe it when I see it. To continue to call them ” Left wing ” is totally disingenuous. Its desperation to be rid of this government that we will once again have to settle for National lite blue.
This from Against the current.
Chris Hipkins has spent his career within the Labour Party, a party that long ago abandoned its socialist roots (I’m being generous) in favour of a centrist, market-friendly consensus. His political trajectory has been defined not by efforts to challenge capitalism, but by managing its excesses in ways that leave the underlying system intact. Hipkins rose through Labour’s ranks during the post-Rogernomics era, when the party had already embraced neoliberal orthodoxy. His ministerial record—whether in education, health, or as Prime Minister—shows a consistent pattern: incremental reforms, technocratic adjustments, and a refusal to confront the structural inequalities produced by the market economy. This is not socialism. It is managerial centrism, which Hipkins defined to Guyon Espiner as ‘a more active role for the state.’
https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2025/11/chris-hipkins-faux-socialist.html
Willis’s ballooning debt continues unchecked…meanwhile there are still no Picton ferries.
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360882378/rising-costs-new-hamilton-mental-health-unit
Saw recent display guying Brit names for Aotearoa. Picton was a dodgy character. Didn’t deserve even a prison named after him so is an insult to the South Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Picton
The Duke of Wellington called him “a rough foul-mouthed devil as ever lived”, but found him capable. While his military prowess is not in doubt, as a colonial administrator he was considered to be a harsh disciplinarian, even by some at the time. He approved the use of torture during his governorship of Trinidad. He was put on trial in England for approving the picketing of a 14-year-old girl.[2] Though initially convicted, Picton later had the conviction overturned arguing that Trinidad was subject to Spanish law, which he was instructed to administer on the island by Sir Ralph Abercromby and which permitted the use of torture.[3]
Controversy over his use of torture has revived in recent years and Picton’s role in the Atlantic slave trade has also come under scrutiny (he was a slave owner who was involved in slave catching). In 2020, Cardiff Council voted to remove Picton’s statue in the “Heroes of Wales” gallery in Cardiff City Hall..
Time we started looking at what we do, and do better. Ferries and fairiy stories included.