Latest Poll shows Budget hasn’t helped National
Latest Freshwater Strategy poll has shown no love for National’s Budget with National dropping to 29% and the Right Track Wrong Track jumped to 57% of NZ believing we are on the wrong track.
This will have the right panicking, Budgets are supposed to generate support not alienate voters and there was much to alienate in the Budget.
The Right can not campaign on the economy because they have vandalised that for ideological reasons.
REMEMBER – National are wrecking the economy and promising 8700 new job cuts so that maybe if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the Moon is in the right phase we might could get back into out 30% GDP neoliberal straightjacket by 2029.
57% of this Governments agenda has been rammed through under urgency and most of it is either culture war bullshit or legislation for their donors.
All the Right have is their ability to manipulate prejudice and bigotry because they can’t use the economy this election.
Get ready for a dirty campaign.
” Get ready for a dirty campaign ”
Seymour has already received concern from National party voters who feel they have to vote for them to help them out despite their unpopularity.
Seymour has advised them to vote for ACT or NZF to ensure the government is reelected and that National doesn’t have to be above the 30% mark to ensure the government is returned.
““People say, ‘Oh, you know, I’ve got to vote National because I need to help them,’ but actually, you don’t,” Seymour said. “You just need to make sure that the coalition is bigger than the other three, and you can do that by voting for any of the three parties.”
Seymour believes Winston will help the current government back in and to imagine how long a Winston backed Labour TMP government would last.
” But, he cautioned, there was one of the three coalition parties – NZ First – where “you never quite know, they might fall out the other side of the bed,” repeating his accusation that NZ First leader Winston Peters could choose to form a government with Labour after November’s election – something Peters has rejected.
” ACT leader David Seymour says it isn’t a problem that the National Party remains below the 30% mark in the latest political poll, because “ultimately, as long as the three [coalition] parties together get more than the other three, then we win”.
” According to the Electoral Commission’s seat calculator, these numbers translate to a Parliament with National on 43 seats, NZ First 15 and 10 for ACT. That gives the coalition 68 seats to 62 for Labour (44), the Greens (12) and TPM (6) ”
” National would have no list spots returning, meaning heavyweights like Finance Minister Nicola Willis, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and Speaker Gerry Brownlee would be dumped from Parliament. Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop will have to hold his bellwether Hutt South electorate to remain in Parliament.
There are key caveats. This calculation assumes all incumbent seats are held on election night.
But swings away from National suggest it could lose key electorates, reducing its seat tally. Te Pāti Māori is also unlikely to retain six Māori seats, reducing 2023’s overhang and the overall size of Parliament ”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360992773/post-budget-blow-national-stranded-sub-30-latest-poll
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360992769/you-never-quite-know-about-nz-first-seymour-says-national-dips-below-30
Labour 35%
National 29%
NZ First 12%
Greens 10%
Act 8%
TPM 2%
No mention of TOP though?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/598196/national-slides-below-30-percent-in-latest-poll-act-and-nz-first-gain
Hopefully the Iran situation has calmed down and the fuel situation will improve price wise .The Right Coalition is still the lead and as prices drop and life get better that lead will increase. We never looked like running out of gas despite Hipkins crying wolf and wanting control similar to his covid campaign
The Iran situation has not calmed down Trevor, and the fuel crisis hasn’t even really begun yet, as private companies have used their critical stockpiles up, and now the US is running low on its strategic reserves. Watching Luxon stammer his weak ass excuses as the population bleeds money to fill their cars will be quite the sight I imagine.
Prices don’t drop! What a moronic statement once again by you Trevor. If National win 95 % of kiwis lose. Expect more to leave for a better life in Australia.
National are corrupt as has been proven by the Fonterra favour policy.
My petrol today at Mobil was $2.96 already under the $3 mark. It seems to me the Left would have loved a crises so they can hire more Public Servants to control us
Petrol in Australia $1.54, it’s what a government does to protect its people. This country has lived in a crisis for the past 2 and a half years but with the Right having their heads stuck firmly in the ground they cannot see. Public servants keep the country running not the Rights lobbyists.
And the tactic of manipulating prejudice and bigotry, and false narratives about their economic clusterfuck alongside gaslighting the public about anything that the left say or do, is well underway.
We see their manipulations everywhere you turn…
Daddy issues Du Plessis has her face plastered all over the cover of a womens’ mag …who on earth would want to read about her i ask?
Hosking has a weird full page mug shot in the Herald every day….trying to make himself look important important…it’s pathetic really…and…it’s not working.
National already has signs the height of a 3 storey building alongside all major motorways gaslighting the public with a very weak, easily altered, slogan……..National long term plan/ Labour long term pain…
How pathetic is that…that is the best that their very expensive media/strategists team can come up with…they should fire the lot..
Stick a big NO! in front of each statement and we have the truth…
Work is already underway on that.
‘The right’ have all the big money …all the main media outlets…all the dirty tricks…but are still struggling to get across the line. …take all those advantages away and the snowflakes would be flushed away…not even close!
It is a metaphor for life in general and how the silverspooners are not who they think they are.