Daily review 03/04/2024

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1. observer 1

   3 April 2024 at 6:46 pm

   Roy Morgan polls should always be treated with caution, but there is a message here that Labour should heed.

   Scroll down beyond the headlines, and it suggests that a growing number are not happy with the government's direction, and yet not translating that dissatisfaction into support for the party and leader they recently rejected.

   “The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating plunged 17pts to 81 in March as sentiment turned heavily negative. Now only 35% (down 6.5% points) of electors said New Zealand was ‘heading in the right direction’ while 54% (up 10.5% points) said New Zealand was ‘heading in the wrong direction’.”

   Waiting for buyer's remorse is not a winning strategy. Fresh vision and boldness could be. This government is there for the beating.

   National/ ACT/ NZ First (56%) increase lead over Labour/ Greens/ Maori on 40.5% – now at 15.5% points – Roy Morgan Research
   • Belladonna 1.1

     3 April 2024 at 6:57 pm

     What I mostly take from those figures is that all of the changes are within the margin of error. Effectively a 'no change' poll, so far as political support goes.

     NB: there's an awful lot of column-filling inches padding out this non-result….

     The right/wrong direction is a more significant change. However, it doesn't tell you why people think the change is the wrong direction (do they want more ACT policies; or more Green policies?- you get the same result in polling)
2. ianmac 2

   3 April 2024 at 6:47 pm

   Morgan Poll:

   National/ ACT/ NZ First (56%) increase lead over Labour/ Greens/ Maori on 40.5% – now at 15.5% points (up 1.5%)

   Support for National was up 2.5% to 38%, but support for ACT decreased 0.5% points to 11.5% and support for NZ First was down 1% to 6.5%.

   Support for Labour was up 1.5% to 23%; support for the Greens was down 2% to 13.5% and support for the Maori Party was down 0.5% points to 3.5%.

   I would have expected a blaze of honeymoon splendour for the current Government???
3. SPC 3

   3 April 2024 at 7:35 pm

   Polls.

   2017 a close result, NZF chose Labour over National – they were not voted out. And the polls remained close until early 2020 (the public unsure if NZF got it right).

   2023, the public voted out Labour and despite not being happy with the direction of government etc, there is reluctance to blame themselves for their choice (that is admit error).

   Labour can at some point make some "change", so that the public can approve of that change to get rid of an unpopular government.

   But the next election is not until 2026.
   • Kat 3.1

     3 April 2024 at 8:46 pm

     "there is reluctance to blame themselves for their choice (that is admit error)….."

     At least 38% of the current MMP electorate will never admit any 'error' rather they will just lurch from one pork barrel of promises to the next.

     That's why we now have a corporate clown for a PM and a govt made up of snake oil sales people, coat tailers and seat warmers all grasping to get their their sweaty hands on the levers of power.
     • Anne 3.1.1

       3 April 2024 at 9:34 pm

       

       Of course they will never admit it. It's human nature to make excuses. Others are always to blame – not themselves.

       You're right Kat. Its pork-barrel politics and it pretty much has been for the past 3 decades or more. The one exception may have been 2020 when the voters rewarded Labour/Greens – and Ardern in particular – for an excellent response to Covid 19.
       • Phillip ure 3.1.1.1

         4 April 2024 at 9:41 am

         Have we forgotten that labour were ejected from office 'cos of non-delivery of the promises they made to get elected in the first place..?

         Are we gonna blame the voters now…for their understandable reaction to those broken promises/that non-delivery..?

         I sheet 100% responsibility for this govt focussed on a right-wing revolution..on the out-gone labour govt..

         It is down to them…
         • Kat 3.1.1.1.1

           4 April 2024 at 8:20 pm

           "Are we gonna blame the voters now…for their understandable reaction to those broken promises/that non-delivery..?

           Please enlighten us with a list of all "those" broken promises and non deliveries……..

           As a famous Tory politician once said: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
4. joe90 4

   3 April 2024 at 8:23 pm

   A fortnight ago these nitwits banned chemtrails. This week, they're going after leafy greens.

   .

   This week, the Tennessee Legislature passed a bill mandating that if and when scientists figure out how to put vaccines in lettuce, the leafy greens will be clearly labeled as a drug.

   “As introduced,” the bill reads, “defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.”

   I don’t really know where to begin with this one. Like, I’m rolling it over and over in my mind and all I keep going back to is that these people clearly do not have enough actual problems in their lives if they have to go around fearing the advent of lettuce vaccines.

   https://www.wonkette.com/p/tn-lege-hopes-to-protect-states-precious
5. SPC 5

   3 April 2024 at 9:32 pm

   Is there anything the Ministry for Women can do?

   https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/03/painful-periods-the-myth-that-delayed-my-endometriosis-diagnosis/
   • Dolomedes III 5.1

     4 April 2024 at 6:59 am

     The article talks about "people with uteruses".
     • SPC 5.1.1

       4 April 2024 at 8:27 am

       Such observation skills are a rare commodity.

       Pity the wit is as dry as a bone.
     • Tabletennis 5.1.2

       4 April 2024 at 1:34 pm

       "Roughly 1 in 10 people with uteruses in New Zealand will have endometriosis – but despite how common it is, it takes years to be diagnosed. "

       Yes the word women is sooo not cool to use by journalist of 1-news and others.
       But rest assured for the male population you are still men in health articles.
       • SPC 5.1.2.1

         4 April 2024 at 2:09 pm

         This has been a women's health problem for decades, but if the loudest voices are more concerned about something else the government can safely do nothing.
       • Tabletennis 5.1.2.2

         6 April 2024 at 2:53 pm

         'People with an uterus':
         The English language is so rich – instead of using confusing ‘genderism’ language, the accurate word is: women.
         Because ‘people without an uterus’, can be man or a women.

         And women who have had a hysterectomy, one of the treatments for endometriosis, are still women.
         Unfortunately after an hysterectomy the endometriosis can reoccur after a couple of years..
6. joe90 6

   3 April 2024 at 10:00 pm

   Turns out Puckish Rogue's boy Killer Kyle is indeed a murderous POS.

   .

   David Hancock was the spokesman for Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and his family during Killer Kyle's criminal proceedings three years ago. At the time, Hancock was laying it on as thickly as anyone, trying to portray Killer Kyle as a poor innocent waif of a boy just trying to do the right thing and who just wanted to go back to his old life and go on to Arizona State University and study to be a nurse to help people.

   But that was then and this is now. And Hancock is, quite frankly, sick and tired of Killer Kyle's bullshit and he's calling him out on it. In a mind-boggling tweet, Hancock spills the beans about how they carefully groomed the image they wanted for Rittenhouse. They forced the kid to take four years of credit in just 10 months, with heavy reliance on "the Goggle Machine."

   […]

   For emphasis, let me repeat the key points:

   Transforming a middle school dropout who was “angry at the world” with a history of violence and an unhealthy obsession with guns and killing into a respectable young man with a desire for higher education and a promising future was no easy feat.

   It was a meticulously crafted facade, which we sincerely hoped he would grow into. Instead, he squandered a full scholarship to study any subject at any university in the country to become a divisive douchebag and antagonize black Americans on college campuses. Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth.

   It should also be noted that Hancock also pointed out a simple fact that he and Killer Kyle's other handlers made damn sure never saw the light of day was that just months before the fateful and fatal evening, Rittenhouse had applied for the Marines, but he was too stupid to even pass the aptitude test:

   https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/killer-kyles-ex-spokesperson-spills-beans?

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