Second Poll of 2025 showing Labour leading Government
Latest internal Talbot Poll shows Labour, Greens and Māori Party forming a majority to be the Government…
Labour – 34%
National – 33%
Greens – 12%
ACT – 9%
NZF – 5.2%
TPM – 4.6%
…this should come as no surprise.
The race war craziness, the selling out the common good for corporate and donor interests, the school lunch debacle, the rising cost of living, insurance costs, public transport costs and rate costs NOT to mention the new petrol costs caused by Trump’s Tariffs – all are combining to cause an economic down turn alongside a deep ranker.
Luxon’s weakness means Winston and Seymour’s extremism is running the agenda and causing intense fury.
The idea that the economy is going to magically bounce back after the austerity budget are ludicrous!
National borrowed more than Labour, BUT THEY BORROWED FOR TAX CUTS WE COULDN’T AFFORD AND RICH LANDLORD LOOP HOLES!
They didn’t spend that extra borrowing on public services, in fact they hollowed out those public services so much so it’s all going to predictably collapse…
Revealed: Tight Budgets force ‘reductions to public services’ – Treasury
Treasury officials have warned the Government that “significant reforms” or “reductions to public services” will be needed in the not-too-distant future if it sticks to its current, restricted spending track.
The Herald can reveal that even with this relatively tight spending, the Government will not post a surplus under the traditional Obegal measure until 2031, which will mark the longest period of Government deficits since the 1979-1994 deficits (which were measured quite differently).
Treasury officials also warned that the Government had planned so much capital investment – spending on items like schools, hospitals and roads – that it might have to cut spending earmarked for public services so it can fund the significant ongoing maintenance of those investments.
…I also find the idea that we should actively punish Beneficiaries who are the collateral damager here pretty sickening…
…put aside the fact that Luxon is a rich prick, look at what he has done to the economy and then consider his lecturing towards beneficiaries:
He crashed the economy with an austerity budget that borrowed more for tax cuts and loopholes we couldn’t afford, and you is lecturing the poor?
HE HAS DONE THIS!!!
Blaming the victims of his economic policy is outrageous!
National are pushing 350,000 jobseekers to find work when there is no work because you collapsed the economy!
There are less than 11,000 jobs on Trademe and less than 5000 on Seek and National are demanding new sanctions against beneficiaries after sacking 9520 public sector workers!
National will continue to fold, Winston will look desperately to find any police to keep him above 5%, ACT will continue to try and use culture wars to cannibalise National and NZF voters.
Really all the Greens, Labour and TPM have to do is say nothing and they’ll win.
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The Greens seem to stay the same what ever happens to them so there is little scope for them to grow .TPM appeals to the more radical Maori si little growth there so it is down to Labour to gain traction for the left and Hipkins is not very inspiring at the present .
I believe the economy will improve enough in the next 12 months to keep National in power with Act
So we have categories of Maori then?. If I’m not radical then I must be a good Maori then hmmm. You know where you can stick your stereotyping.
That is wishful thinking in its purist form…
National Act and N.Z First are dead…goneburgers…out the back door….finito
Only the foolhardy and the deluded now believe that they are any good for New Zealand..
N.Z is years away from a recovery now …. Luxon, Nikki No Boats Willis, and Seymour threw the economy into reverse and backed it over a cliff….Even your average Joe Blow Kiwi can see that.
Putting it simply, it’s the escalating cost of living, and Luxon being an obnoxious dumbo. Even people with half a brain feel dragged down with an idiot like him representing them and the sooner he sods off the better.
Yes, agree and I see national are doing the same policy for state housing they did last time they were in power. Bishop said they are going to sell old properties in high value areas, and they will use the money to build more apartments. They didn’t get a mandate to sell any assets, but this is what they are doing. Same old shit just another day to these bullshitting wankers ruining our country and dividing the people.
“Really all the Greens, Labour and TPM have to do is say nothing and they’ll win.”
Unfortunately, as soon as they say something, it undermines their wider support and they lose, again, and again.
Its all lies though eh Bob the Fart, Trev, Andrew, Xenophobe, Jonzie, and all the other trolls.
Build bigger prisons, sell assets, increase immigration, tear up, pillage and destroy our pristine environments.
We will make 30k unemployed then close 25000 businesses and import more people .Then we will expect them to find a non existent job next week and cut their income if they dont .Then if they are lucky and do get work we will move them onto a 50% tax rate by taking away WFF AND FAMILY TAX CREDITS so in fact their income is less when they get a job .On top of that they have to pay the cost of getting to the low paying over taxed job .How can it be right that a low paid worker is paying 2 x the tax rate of his employer .
The turkeys were never going to vote for an early Christmas, so which bit of this is a surprise. People aren’t going to rejoice because their state funded jobs are gone. No one will thank a politician for cutting any cost.