New Poll shows Government failing on real issues that concern Kiwis

As food inflation hits 4.7%…

…the latest IPSOS Poll shows voters believe Labour have the answers, not National…

Labour now more trusted to solve the big issues, new survey shows

…it doesn’t get much more damning than this…

…remember, all National has left is asset sales as a vision.

That’s vandalism, not economic policy.

Watching Luxon and Winston attack each other over the meltdown they have created is just glorious…

Luxon brushes off Winston Peters’ asset sales attack

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has waved away New Zealand First’s criticism of National’s economic plan, saying Winston Peters has many entrenched views.

…they have underfunded public services while borrowing billions for tax cuts, landlord tax loop holes, gas and oil subsides, tobacco subsidies and Michelin Star programs.

Their decision to destroy Labour’s infrastructure pipeline has had a cascade effect throughout the economy that has seen 73 000 flee the country and the destruction of 30 000 jobs in the construction sector.

National’s response to this is mass importation of cheaper labour from exploited migrant workers while allowing multi millionaires to buy $5million mansions.

Look.

NZ is 3 huge sparsely populated Islands.

We simply don’t have the population density for free market dynamics to generate the competitive advantages that they can provide, NZ has ALWAYS required the State to step in as the foundation stone.

National and ACT want to kick that foundation stone out from under us and pretend that’s not economic vandalism.

Unemployment reached a 9-year high of 5.3 percent, it’s 10.5% for Māori, 12.1% for Pacifica and 15.2% for 15-24year olds while an increasing number of disillusioned job seekers are opting out of joining the workforce altogether.

Winston is one of the best political players in the game, to date he has leaned heavily into culture war conspiracies to hate on the Trans, hate on the vaccines, hate on climate change, but he is smart enough to know that his knuckle dragging supporters can’t eat their hate and that the economy is suffering right  now.

He will have watched what happened recently in America and the crucifixion of Republicans in the most recent elections.

For example, of the 480-plus contested races in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, Republicans only won 11.

In Georgia, Democrats ousted two Republicans on the Public Service Commission, the party’s first capture of a non-federal statewide office in Georgia since 2006.

In Connecticut, Democrats took control of 28 towns from the GOP.

In New Jersey, Democrats won their biggest majority in the General Assembly since the Watergate era.

Much of the attention last Wednesday NZT focused on the Democrats’ big United States election wins in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, as well as in the New York mayor’s contest.

But the party also won hundreds of lower-profile state and local contests – often swamping Republican incumbents with overwhelming turnout.

…I love this comment by a Republican strategist…

“I think we need to heed what the voters are telling us – they want us to focus on pocketbook issues, which is part and parcel of how Trump got elected in the first place,” Nicholas said.

“Perhaps we have run enough ads on the trans issue for a while.”

…Winston is sensing the same change in NZ.

Hating on the trans and the woke is fine and dandy while you have money in your pocket, but not even demented NZ First voters can pay the bills with their spite.

With polling like this, you understand why the whispering campaign against Luxon and Willis has already begun.

The rumour mill is now leaning towards a National Party leadership spill.

Much plotting was done at Jim Bolger’s recent funeral which is ironic.

The phone calls are happening and the numbers are being taken.

The National Party factions realise 3 things.

1 – It has to be Luxon and Nicola Willis who go because it is Nicola’s insane economic direction that is killing them and Luxon’s wooden performance that its drowning them.

2 – It can’t be Erica because the National Party Mandarins know that we know.

3 – The compromise line up is Bishop as Finance with Louise Upston as leader.

The drive is to go back to Jim Bolger’s decent society rather than Luxon’s dead eyed KPI CEO speak and Nicola Willis’ free market cruelty.

With National now pushing a policy as overwhelmingly unpopular as Asset sales, all Labour need to do is appear half rational.

If there is a move in National, it will happen over the Summer, there is no way they would try it any later than March because they know that would just look like a desperate scramble.

They would want at least 10 months as a lead in for the new Leadership to rebrand National before an election.

Beyond March, Luxon and Willis will be cemented in and National will lose the election.

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