Sweet Jesus, NZ economy is so bad, now even the migrants are fleeing!

ByMartyn Bradbury

Wow.

The NZ Economy is now SOOOOOOOO bad , thanks to the self mutilation this Government generated with their 2024 demolition of the infrastructure pipeline, that now EVN THE MIGRANTS are fleeing…

Migration: Kiwis still leaving New Zealand in record numbers

  • New Zealand’s annual net migration rate fell to 10,600 for the year to August 2025.
  • There was a record net migration loss of 47,900 New Zealand citizens in August 2025.
  • Overall migrant arrivals dropped 16% to 138,600, while departures increased 13% to 127,900.

…tell me again why this hard right Government with their ideological driven economic mutilations is better than Labour, Greens + Māori Party?

 

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12 Comments

  1. Imagine the unemployment level had the 100k who have left did not do so .Time to stop the RSE intake of exploited people from the Pacific and give kiwis first Crack at the jobs and places to stay .However they may object to the shit pay and living 10 to a room for 200 a week rent

  2. People on welfare like Super must be getting scared. Who is going to work and pay taxes to pay for it?

  3. It’s not a problem if our migrants flee for a better life overseas? We should never ever have brought so many into our country to take the jobs of our Kiwis! Yes we all know it’s the lazy way to boost the economy. And remember these are the voters that lacklustre Luxon is courting. He has totally lost the plot, he’s almost as insane as the dreadful Trump. May they both get their “just deserts” – the sooner the better!

  4. Do migrant arrivals and departures include those here on holiday?
    I’m not doubting that folks are leaving, but wouldn’t want the figures to get skewed by those on holiday to these shores.

  5. …tell me again why this hard right Government with their ideological driven economic mutilations is better than Labour, Greens + Māori Party?

    Sorry Martyn, when I ran that question through Grok, the whole system malfunctioned.

  6. Good! The more net economic sponges that leave New Zealand the better off we all will be!

  8. I’m stoked that immigration rates are dropping.

    That helps take pressure off our housing/rental market and our creaking infrastructure and public services.

    Rapid increases in immigration only ever served the government and our ridiculously narrow real estate-based economy.

    The rest of us always have to deal with all the blowback from their stupid short-sighted sugar hit.

    Hopefully this time the coalition carries the can.

    Endless “growth” is impossible in a closed system such as a planet.

  9. In the theme of one of your previous articles – the NZ media will never loose hope – no matter what the hard, cold evidence in front of them tells them.
    An RNZ article listing the multiple indicators of an upcoming recession was titled “Some signs of hope as economy struggles to get traction”.
    An article in the NZ Herald detailing the higher number of business liquidations this year than last – ended with the, surely by now embarrassing, phrase “there are some signs of green shoots in the economy”.

  10. There goes the right wing economic strategy of pretending that imported migrant cash represents NZ produced wealth.

  11. It’s a pretty damning indictment of Labour that they should be anywhere close to level pegging with the putz government.

    The collapse of support for the ineffectual Keir Starmer government in the UK ought to be a salutary lesson for the incoming Labour government here, that kicking the neoliberal can down the road isn’t going to cut it this time, nor are attacks on the usual suspects – poorly delineated racists, gender sceptics, and those that dare to question the wisdom of raining 1080 from the sky like it was 245T in the 1980s.

    I’m not sure we can expect a well thought out response, but NZ, with its economy plummeting like Monty Python’s flying sheep, is not exactly well-prepared for the softening of the world economy occasioned by Trumpian instability that can be expected to mature around the time of his de-election or second attempted coup as the case may be.

    There are a lot of economists out there who are proving, as usual, that the statistical confidence of their projections is less than chance, and that considerable savings along with better projections are to be made by replacing them with flipped coins.

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