The Rise of NZ First is the mutiny of Gumboot Fascism
The NZ First poll surge isn’t just a bump in the numbers — it’s a warning sign of something deeper: a culture war backlash that is reshaping the political battlefield ahead of the next election.
The National Party has risen slightly in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll, but it remains under 30% and the results would see a sizeable number of MPs lose their jobs if the result was replicated at the election.
On these results:
- Labour is down 1 point to 33.4%,
- National is up 1.4 to 29.8%,
- NZ First has increased 3.9 points to 13.6%,
- ACT is up 1.5 to 9%,
- the Green Party is down 2.7 to 7.8%
- and Te Pāti Māori is down 0.6 to 2.6%
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NZ First are generating the momentum they have in the Polls because culture war revenge fantasies, driven by social media hate algorithms, are recruiting the lonely, angry and disconnected.
Winston has the capacity to tap into sub-5% threshold fringe voters with trigger words like ‘globalist’ and by attacking the WHO.
For the rest of us this is demented, to the feral conspiracy swamp so many have rabbit-holed into, Winston’s words are manna from heaven.
It’s a trick Farage, Trump and Pauline Hanson have perfected.
So Winston scoops up voters no one else is targeting, his rise is the mutiny of Gumboot Fascism.
Why NZ First’s surge is coming from the fringes
This generates a real problem for National who are being assaulted by ACT and Winston because not every National voter is a raving racist fanatic. Many are cosmopolitan urbanites who are as horrified by Luxon’s spinelessness on race relations as we are.
These National voters wanted their house price to go up 10%, they didn’t want a race war!
The problem this creates for National
For them, more race baiting by Winston and Seymour (enabled by Luxon) is the kiss of death.
For these voters, they can’t vote Greens and won’t vote Labour, but they most certainly could vote TOP.
NZ First hate trolls are the perfect advert to show voters sitting on the fence why they should pick a side. NZ First supporters are book burners in the truest sense of the meaning, they need to be shunned and shown contempt.
Celebrate them, and you’re helping burn down your own democracy.
Winston and NZ First believe they can keep trading in toxic conspiracy theory memes without any political penalty, but if the grandstanding reaches a threshold where Blue/Green voters leave National for TOP and TOP hit the 5% threshold, it’s all over for Winston.
And here’s the part no one in National wants to admit:
TOP could finally be the antidote that renders Winston meaningless.
Gumboot Fascists in Ireland protesting globalist, islamic over immigration.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9wXIhvlw85A
There is this growing animosity towards women in politics placing social needs above economic needs. With petrol prices near or above $3 doubling in the past thirty years the party is over and there’s no way the world goes back to cheap oil. The pie is shrinking and the homicidal bitching is rising.
Polls are so subjective and depend on their ‘base’. It’s unbelievable that many take them so literally and even more inconceivable that the RW is still attracting voters! What does that tell us? Winston is riding high, at present, with his mishmash of misfits, many of whom won’t be able to climb out of their rabbit holes to even vote. All the rest of us can do is hope there are enough sensible, intelligent folk out there to vote for a better NZ. Surely that can’t be too difficult?
Labour had 6 years in charge ,3 of them with unfettered control given them a once in a lifetime chance to show how good life could be .
In that period they had covid to deal with but these things is will crop up in parliamentary period . When it came to selling their 6 year control to the voters there was little to show and all they had to offer was GST off fruit and veg and inflation. Little wonder they LOST
National has had nearly 3 years and they fucked up every one of them. Little wonder why they are a one term government.
Remember that it’s Lord Trevor the Credulous of Moa Point speaking.
He lives in that fantasy world where you minimize a once in a century plague.
I live in the real world where my mother was recovering from cancer during Covid, so go fuck yourself in your fantasy world until you come back normal.