BREAKING: 1News Verian Poll – Right Wing Government Hold Power

The latest 1News Verian poll confirms what many on the Left feared: the Right bloc remains competitive and within striking distance of a second term. With Election 2026 looming, the numbers show just how steep the climb will be — and what another three years of National, ACT and NZ First could mean for Aotearoa.

The Latest 1News Verian Poll Breakdown

New 1News Verian Poll and it highlights just how hard this fight will be for the Left:

• National – 34%
• Labour – 32%
• Greens – 11%
• NZF – 10%
• ACT – 9%
• TPM – 2%
• Don’t Know – 11%

The 2023 Realignment and Its Consequences

Last election, I was busy trying to explain to anyone who was listening that the policy alignment of National, ACT and NZF would explode into a hard right vandalism of the economy with culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy.

I warned we would see free market ideology promoted over the common good and a level of crony capitalism for donors that would shock.

Lo and behold, we got that and so much more.

Thanks to social media hate algorithms, the polarisation of politics is more extreme in NZ than any time since the Springbok tour.

The post-Covid bitterness many blamed on Labour manifested in people voting ACT, NZF and National in without understanding what that policy line up would produce.

It wasn’t an election in 2023, it was grudge-phuck against Labour.

So.

You didn’t believe me about what a National/ACT/NZF Government would do in 2023, here’s what they will do if they win a second term in 2026.

What a Second Term Could Look Like

MASS STATE ASSET SELL OFF:

They are already lining up to sell everything that isn’t locked down. They underfund a public service until you scream about how poor the service is and then they suggest privatisation as the solution.

CORPORATE CAPITULATION OF OUR DEMOCRACY:

The Regulatory Standards Bill will remain and not be scrapped, it will allow the Taxpayers’ Union inside Parliament to scrutinise all legislation to ensure corporate property rights are put above human rights. Watch for Atlas Network and TU adjacent appointments.

MORE MINING AT EXPENSE OF CLIMATE:

Shane Jones already has made some secret deal with Trump over our rare earth minerals and his championing of the dirtiest, cheapest mining where we get bugger all royalties has been turned into a culture war where Shane screams ‘woke’ at any environmental protections. There will be nothing Shane doesn’t mine if National, ACT and NZF are returned. Let’s not forget he also wants the Fast Track Power back!

TOTAL CAPITULATION TO ISRAEL:

ACT are the biggest Zionist apologists in the Government, if National, ACT and NZF are returned expect open deals between the Government and Israeli business plus more IDF war criminals holidaying here.

MORE COWS AT EXPENSE OF CLIMATE:

Whatever the climate change question is, National’s solution is always “More Cows”. Expect even MORE cows if National, ACT and NZF win a second term.

LOWERING WATER STANDARDS:

Because there will be more cows, they will need to lower the water standards again. 1 Cow – 14 people pissing and shitting into the water ways. We have 8.4million cows in NZ, that’s the equivalence of 117million people pissing and shitting into our water ways every single year.

PRIVATE PRISONS:

The only way the Government will be able to cover the costs of the rapidly rising Prison population is by Privatising Prisons. Expect ACT to make the argument.

PULLING OUT OF WHO AND UN:

Winston has gone full cooker on the UN because the conspiracy swamp he fishes in for votes believe the WHO is a shadowy one world Government run by a cabal of satanic child sex abusers. He will actually attempt it to keep his conspiracy theory nutters happy.

TRUMP UBER ALLES:

The total capitulation to Trump by this Government shames all our collective mana. If National, ACT and NZF are reelected, it will be Trump uber Alles.

Culture Wars and Constitutional Flashpoints

MORE RACE FRICTION:

ACT have promised to bring back the Treaty Principles Referendum and Winston has announced a referendum on the Māori Electorates. This will be violently resisted.

DOMESTIC HOUSING MARKET OPENED TO FOREIGN SPECULATORS:

They have vandalised the economy so badly and are desperate for any economic activity that they will open the domestic real estate market to more foreign speculation. Currently they are allowing foreigners to buy $5 million mansions, but that will drop the moment they are re-elected to $2million as they attempt to restart the property speculation market.

MORE HYPER TOURISM:

They don’t care about the environment, they care about what their donors want to do to the environment  and they will open NZ to hordes of hyper tourism gridlocking our infrastructure again.

Social and Economic Fallout

VAST JUMP IN HOMELESSNESS, POVERTY + INEQUALITY:

We are already seeing the ramifications of their brutality towards the homeless, beneficiaries and the poor. Expect these numbers to soar under a second term of National, ACT and NZF.

This is how we should all collectively feel about this Government…

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— Nick Young (@nickofnz) January 31, 2026

…I told you at the 2023 election National, ACT and NZF would create a toxic mix of policies, you didn’t believe me, well you are all being forced to drink it now.

Don’t pretend your voting them again in 2026 will achieve anything positive.

You’ve been told!

Polls measure sentiment, not destiny. But if these numbers harden, Election 2026 will not simply be a routine contest of policy — it will be a referendum on the direction of the State itself. Voters may yet decide whether the past three years were a warning or a blueprint.