Cunliffe made some bad mistakes in the debates by not hammering home the fact that National are not good financial managers, and have left the country in a worse state than when they took over. I like DC as a person, and I think he is the best that Labour ...
Yes indeed, some of those people who vote for National will be dealt a blow at some stage and might regret their part in dismantling the safety net NZ has enjoyed for many years. Too late though by then.
I totally agree, change is going to have to come from grass roots. There is no other option really, the MSM are owned by the corporations and corruption appears to be endemic in government so the voting system may well be corrupted too. Pinning all our ...
There is a petition asking for a recount http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Hon_Sir_Hugh_Williams_KNZM_QC_LLM_Recount_NZ_2014_Election_I_believe_it_was_rigged/?cgAZlib
Woke up this morning and shed a few tears for those people who are going to find the savaging we are going to get from this government too much to bear. People who are in a situation that makes them unable to improve their lot must be despairing- like ...
+1,000,000
The pro independence Scots did it well. They didn't win, but they got nearly half the country alongside them. Good natured campaign, and they did it all without the MSM too.
Yep. Elections are no way for change anymore. Grass roots rebellion is going to have to happen.
NZ seems to be corrupt from top to bottom, nothing would surprise me.
They are on track to govern alone...
The left are not going to have a majority even with NZ First. Winston will be powerless, he will end up having to give confidence and supply to National, or National will call another election and then he will be punished by the electorate. He won't be ...
Don't think Scotland will ever get those powers. Suddenly Cameron doesn't have time to do anything before the next election. Imagine he'll be too busy after it too. Scotland I think will live to regret the No vote. They are completely powerless now.
I live in a North Island provincial city, and have a subscription for the local paper to be delivered, but today instead of our local morning paper we instead got delivered a Herald, with wall to wall National party propaganda inside. Just disgusted. The ...
You really need to go away and do some research. Westminster has the authority to give powers, and to take powers away from the Scots. There is a legal triple lock that means all the power is ultimately still held by Westminster.
The neolibs in Westminster can do whatever they like to Scotland. Everything Scotland currently has is by grace and favour, and Westminster can change the rules to suit themselves whenever they like. They can take away the Scottish parliament if they so ...
The Scottish referendum was mostly about Westminster and the neolib Tory governments. Those problems remain. If the neolibs continue to wreak havoc in the UK then there will be another referendum, the Yes side will be better prepared and the people who ...
Struck by how confident and happy David Cunliffe looks in the photos of him electioneering in Auckland today. Maybe Labour's polling is giving them good news. I sure hope so!
Yeah, I almost felt sorry for him. Almost. Such a smiling assassin, open and innocent grin no matter what he has been up to.
I was thinking about Helen Clark this morning, and the successful campaign Labour ran over those years. She promised a few very specific things that were likely to be popular, and followed through with them. It worked very well.
Your links are definitely to the previous poll, they show the Conservatives at 4.7% and they were 4.9% tonight. This is the TV3 article about the most recent poll, it says at the bottom that the interviews were conducted between 9-15 September. http://www....
It says on the TV3 website that the interviews for the current poll were taken between the 9-15 September, I think you are looking at their previous poll which was done between the 2-8 September.
Colin Craig reckons he's seen polls that have him at 5.5%, he's looking pretty confident. Though John Key wasn't pushing him tonight, just saying to people not to try and vote in coalition partners and to give the vote to National so maybe their polling is...
Also of interest, the TV3 poll is the most current, they polled between 9-15 September while Roy Morgan polled between 1-14 September.
Fingers crossed that if the Conservatives get across the line, National's support has dropped so far it still won't be enough. I'm not sure how early voting is going to affect the accuracy of these last polls though, as a large percentage of the population...
The TV3 poll was off by quite a bit last time. This is a useful graph, it shows the final polls from the different polling companies and the actual election result http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/4726-new-zealand-2011-election-accuracy-201312032254
Yep, if this poll is like the one taken before the last election, the only difference between this poll and the actual election would be that the right bloc had 2% less on the day. So National probably on 44%, Labour + Greens + NZFirst on 46% at the moment...
This election so reminds me of 1996. It will remind Winston too. He got 13% of the vote in the 1996 election, and after getting into bed with a third term National government he got less than 5% in the next election. I see we even have Paula Bennett with a...
Yes DTB, it has always been clear that Key is a liar out to line his own pockets. The National voters seem to understand and respect that for some reason only known to themselves. But Key has now stepped over the line into behavior that is treasonous, and ...
I think his declassifying secret documents to save his own skin is what will ultimately finish him. Those documents were either 1) made secret to hide what Key was doing from New Zealand or 2) made secret for the safety of New Zealand, and so to release ...
Really quiet here today. RWNJ astroturfers are all over at Stuff, posting like crazy because Andrea Vance has finally stepped outside the tent and started questioning what is happening in NZ. They must be so rattled.
So sick of the "journalists" at the Herald....
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