Could Chloe lose to a Technofascist Palantir Candidate in Auckland Central and why no left wing politician should appear for Taxpayers’ Union Debate this election
Green Party losing in Auckland Central and National ahead of rivals in new poll
The Green Party is on track to narrowly lose the Auckland Central electorate it has held for two consecutive elections, according to a new poll.
A Curia Poll commissioned by the Taxpayers’ Union and obtained by the Herald shows National in first place, polling 30%, and the Greens five points behind on 25%.
Labour is one point behind the Greens on 24%.
The poll did not let voters in the electorate pick from named candidates, but asked which party they would give their candidate vote. The poll was of 400 people and has a margin of error of +/- 4.9% at the 95% confidence level. The polling period was July 22-29. Curia is also used by the National Party for internal polls.
National is running Candace Kinser against Green incumbent Chlöe Swarbrick, who is also the party’s co-leader. Labour is represented by Naisi Chen in the electorate.
NZ Herald
4 things:
1 – I don’t believe a bad faith actor like the Taxpayers’ Union poll that is as tiny a sample as this. I believe it is a manipulated poll to make Chloe look weak, she ran 3rd in 2 previous polls when the Right were trying to knock her out, they were wrong then, they will be wrong now because Chloe is an incredibly passionate local electorate MP and Central Aucklanders know she has their back.
2 – The National candidate used to work for Palantir FFS – Candace Kinser’s past employment with controversial US tech giant Palantir Technologies raises questions about surveillance technology, militarised AI and the growing political influence of Silicon Valley defence contractors inside democratic politics. Allowing her to win Auckland central would be a massive win to the technofascists.
3 – Labour supporters have got to know that a candidate vote for anyone other than Chloe is a vote for a National Party candidate who used to work for Palantir FFS. Sort your shit out Labour Auckland Central voters!
4 – This poll was taken because Taxpayers’ Union are considering running debates like they did last election. Let me be as clear as I can to every TOP, Green, TPM and Labour candidate – DO NOT AGREE TO APPEAR! I ran these last election, and I wrote all the questions with zero impact from TU. Left wing Candidates could appear last election knowing I was in their corner at a right wing event, without me this election it will be some right wing goon and the questions will be designed to destroy you.
Let me repeat. If you are a TOP, Green, TPM and Labour candidate and the Taxpayers’ Union contact you to appear in one of their debates, turn it down and boycott it because it will be a bad faith event this election.
Chloe will win Auckland Central and if all other candidates boycott the Taxpayers’ Union bad faith debates, all they will have this election is the sound of one hand clapping.
Boycott the Taxpayers’ Union debates.
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Hopefully
word on the ground is that a lot of SME smoko rooms and offices in Auckland are wondering wtf is this govt. doing. and it ain’t in a good way. the sooner you get this info out on this US overlord backed grifter, the better. spread the word. Luxon is implementing an US hegemonic agenda and has no effing concern for the people of NZ/AO
Yeah I’m loath to trust a tpu poll but this is the general vibe on the ground from friends in Auckland Central who canvass for labour and the greens, Chloe is the incumbent MP for an electorate that is deeply suffering.
The hospo, retail, entertainment and tourist sector in Auckland cbd is dying, businesses are closing at an alarming rate, the CBD is a ghost town and unfortunately being the incumbent is a poison chalice under these conditions.
It’s not Chloe’s fault this is happening but when times are tough the “throw the bums out” mentality takes over.
Chloe herself said noone is owed a free run at an electorate when labour said in 2020 that her run would split the left vote she laughed at them and she won, twice
So I disagree that labour voters have to get behind Chloe. Have a three way race and let chips fall as they may. The seat is historically a labour safe seat, the greens have never worried too much about splitting electoral votes in electorate races.
It’s truly a bugger we don’t have STV in electoral seats and mmp for the party vote though!
Chloe’s problem apart from the state of Auckland Central economy and being the incumbent is, she has to run a national (and to some extent with overseas voters an international campaign) for the green party, where as the labour and national candidates just have to run local ground campaigns, she’s not going to be able to run the same ground game she ran in 2020 and 2023 cos she wasnt leader in those elections.
Finally, it’s crazy how bad Auckland and Wellingtona cbds are, absolute Ghost towns, meanwhile Christchurchs CBD is thriving, stores are opening up faster than they can build them, while the population is surging, likely to be a million people in 20 years.
Auckland and Wellington need massive Keynesian infrastructure programs to inject jobs and boost the economy, the problem is the programs can take 10-15 years to see the true benefits to cities (like the chch rebuild) and we live in an instant culture we’re if something doesn’t show instant benefits it’s deemed a failure.
I hope Chloe or the labour candidate win obviously, because im deeply concerned about national causing a massive overhang by keeping their electorate seats but losing 10% of their party vote.
Labour aren’t left wing. They should get the hell out.
As you say it is historically an extremely safe Labour seat.
The most notable Labour candidate who failed to continue that long line of history is Dame Jacinda Ardern who failed to win it not once, but twice (with National’s Nikki Kaye winning on both occasions).