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The only reason National are so pro immigration is because it creates the false growth numbers they need, it props up middle class illusions of wealth via inflated property prices and because many NZ-Chinese migrants are huge supporters of National (The Blue Dragons) and because many senior National Party MPs are heavily invested in Chinese interests.
When you consider that a poll in Whangarei had Labour on 37%, we could see a Labour Party taking a majority Government without needing any coalition partner.
The Greens can not lose the impact they are having with beneficiaries (who rarely turn up in these polls anyway), the sudden collapse in Green vote is not supporters leaving because of Metiria, they are leaving because of Jacinda.
Winston Peters is going to get medieval on who ever leaked his information to the media.
This could undermine Winston’s power of Kingmaker more than any other move in the rubric cube our political landscape is becoming.
Fuck inflation adjusted, what about justice adjusted rather than justice adjacent?
Poor old David Farrar, swing and a miss, turns out the Campaign for Change was within the law…
This just gets dodgier by the second doesn’t it folks?
Labour aren’t really trying with this policy, they sense they can probably win without promising too much and are starting to allow the caution to creep into their positioning.
This is a Government who colluded with the Secret Intelligence Service months before the 2011 election to falsely smear Phil Goff, does anyone honestly think they wouldn’t breach every rule of privacy to smear Winston Peters?