Roy Morgan Poll Shock: Labour Plunges, TOP Hits 6%
Labour has been warned for months. Now the Roy Morgan poll has delivered the punishment: a 7.5% plunge and TOP suddenly over 5%.

Labour has been warned for months. Now the Roy Morgan poll has delivered the punishment: a 7.5% plunge and TOP suddenly over 5%.

Banks get a token levy. Public servants get the axe. State tenants get higher rents. Budget 2026 is not balance, it is class warfare dressed as discipline.

Banks get a joke tax. Landlords keep their loot. Beneficiaries, students, tenants and public servants get the bill. Budget 2026 is class warfare with spreadsheets.

There are more than 11,000 home-educated children and ERO reviewed just 10 families last year. Erica Stanford tried basic oversight, then discovered homeschooling is political kryptonite.

David Seymour thinks councils can be bribed into fixing housing. Dave Bainbridge-Zafar says the real blockage is in Wellington, where state housing has been abandoned for market theatre.

State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. Banks get a token levy. Budget 2026 is not recovery, it is abandonment.

Officials said do not intervene. Big Polluters wanted protection from Mike Smith’s court case. The Government went ahead and gave them exactly what they wanted.

David Seymour wants fewer bureaucrats, except in his own Ministry for Regulation. Its staff numbers are now four times larger than the agency it replaced.

The world’s top court has confirmed the right to strike is fundamental. The NZCTU says New Zealand’s Government has run out of excuses for stalling.

The Government calls it fairer housing support. The NZCTU says it is taking money from struggling tenants and handing the advantage to landlords.