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Newshub Reid has L27/G12/TPM 3 down from 44.5 to 42%.
National has gone to 41% with ACT down to 10%. Majority.
NZF below 5%. TOP 2%.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/09/newshub-reid-research-poll-labour-s-support-collapses-as-national-rockets-into-40s.html
Might be time for James Shaw to bat his eyelids luxons way, !!
Yes I'm serious
If either institutional party is prepared to change their mind on wealth taxes to fund the first $10k tax-free then I'd imagine a conversation would be had.
Realistically though the other aspects of Nationals policy prohibit any coalition arrangement with the Greens and as has to be reiterated every time this argument comes up; Any post-election-negotiation decision is voted on democratically by Green party members not just the parliamentary members.
Guess ot depends if national are happy having act running the show or if they would prefer to work in a real coalition government with mature adults.!
Like the Lib-dems in 2010?
Indeed. Labour and National are virtually the same center right Party, there's very little different between the two, so if the greens can stop act from sitting around cabinet then it should be looked into, at all costs.
Labour have been on the political right for fourty years, it makes no sense tying yourself to one right party simply because it once was left wing.
Face it, Labour has no ideology and was a dying political force before jacinda ardern turned it into the jacinda party, but without a purpose or ideology very little was achieved and now that she's gone the temporary reprieve of its death spiral has also ended.
In a few election cycles labour will be nothing more than just another large minor party.
Has to be something to do with long covid, perhaps we are witnessing a very nasty hangover effect? Somehow the pandemic seems to be conveniently not mentioned, like it almost didn't happen…………….
Labour campaign needs to accentuate all the positive gains….and loudly!
From being grateful for the security to anger and blame at government for difficulty in their life – rising mortgage cost etc.
For some it's a government of by and for their middle class first (cutting the cost of maintaining a modern nation state government for all*) and the for others its Stockholm syndrome placate the landlords and hope they can avoid rent increases.
But running a country* like an asset stripping corporate leaves everyone (next generation) worse off. And those who vote to appease the rentier generation might never own property and in the end angry at older people on super who have property (which makes wealth taxation inevitable and probably a move to means test super).
The incessant 'positivity' around Luxon and the Nat campaign by the media is the amplification that its going to be 'positive' to vote blue as opposed to 'negative' to vote red. The media are all but announcing a National/Act win on election day.
Labour must change the narrative to gain some ground, like promoting 'positively' what it has achieved and what those achievements mean in all the 'positive' ways for the country. Chippy has the ammo he just needs to fire it….hopefully soon.
Act are bleeding to National, the only positive there is that post election even with a majority National may not be able even with Act to form a govt.
As a Labour voter, the negative vibes I am experiencing is the worst I have known. Labour voters are losers is the name of the dirty game.
When the shit hits their fans, I look forward to throwing it straight back into all their faces. 👿
Guess the 'fans' will throw all the shit back Anne…..we can only watch with some reticent glee as the idiots get a messy squishy smelly sun tan……
The current millennial news rooms have no idea of past shit hitting fans…….and the consequences.
Money – $8 million of it – buys votes. The lemmings fall for it every time. When they reach the bottom of the cliff don't expect there to be ambulances to assist them. They will have been sold off to pay for the rich pricks' tax cuts.
Looks like some shifting within the blocs (Lab to Grn; ACT to Nat) but a general drift right as well. Would need a 5% shift from right back to left in 5 weeks to reach parity. Unlikely. ACT continuing to slide would be useful but not enough if most goes to Nat. Luxon now needs to merely not disgrace himself in a way that actually gets noticed – unlike the Tame interview. Mutch-Mackay hosting the debates will be a comfort to him.
If those in the centre are not wary of National government dependent on ACT for their supply, they are not paying attention.
They ain't paying attention, one punter on te news last night thought act had the free dental policy!!!!!@!!!!!!!
Saw it. With dolts like that…..
'Soft' ACT votes aren't ever going to go left. They'll only go to National, or, possibly, if NZF look solidly past the 5% threshold, to Winston.
I'd expect to see more of the 'right wing' of National shift to ACT, if National is looking solidly ahead of Labour.
Labour needs to appeal to the 'soft' National voters – the much maligned Centrists (which is where the GST off veges and free dental for under 30s is targeted). But it doesn't seem to be working ATM.
Its not working, ATM, because all Labour's positive social and economic gains/management since 2017 are the best kept secrets in this election campaign…….
Labour has to identify those gains that are at risk (National policy change) – something not helped by some inaccurate claims.
Otherwise declare plans to build further on the other achievements.
Also Luxon and Hipkins are on level pegging in the preferred PM stakes (both at 22.5%).
Which I find frankly unbelievable. Even those I know who are tribal National, don't particularly rate Luxon.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2023-new-political-poll-to-reveal-impact-of-first-days-on-the-campaign/DD7WJSSFQBC55IPAF4THDAVIOU/
As Anne alluded to earlier, a lot of mischief can be ‘arranged’ with $8million……
It would not surprise me Kat if certain journalists are going to be rewarded for their cooperation in an arrangement that would be difficult to unravel. As I said, $8 million buys elections!
Bob had it sussed…..take your pick
That was difficult to watch. Still digesting the results. Followed by Winston Peters rant about Maori and Rawiri Waititi's Ta Moko. Shameful. This is a reply to SPC.
That was eye opening. He has real issues.
The Greens have announced a plan to protect our oceans. This will involve an Act to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030, create an independent Ocean Commission and a Minister for Oceans:
https://www.greens.org.nz/healthy_ocean_act
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/pages/18672/attachments/original/1694251296/Oceans_Policy_Document_final.pdf?1694251296
Would like to see more details on this:
Stuff – All vehicles to move to road user charges under National, including EVs
So far, it looks like the "normal" people subsidise the polluting vehicles of the rich (not the emissions is taxed, but kilometres, means higher polluting cars pay the same as clean cars). And, of course, we're not hitting any climate targets either. So in the future someone has to pay for the climate damage on top of it.
Anyone who didnt see this coming had their eyes closed….this will be the funding mechanism irrespective of government hue.
Someone has to pay for the roads which the EVs use.
And, mostly the very wealthy are the ones with the EVs – certainly I see a heck of a lot of them driving through Remuera….
Look at the slide in Labour voting. Why will it rise or even stabilise? It is a downward slide to less than 20% by the time voting starts
Fact free. Over the past week, 24%, 26% and 27%. Not going down, just 3 different polls showing the same decline since their last one.
Fact free 26.8% is not 27% A fall of 5.5% after all the attempted bribes is a significant downward slump which will get much worse after the PREFU results are published.
The PREFU news will raise extra questions about how National plans to finance its tax cuts.
Wrong yet again. National gets the massive money for the badly needed tax cuts from foreigners wanting to come here and from gambling casinos overseas. Just face it -this election will be a mighty rout and Labour could easily fall below 20%.
Many Labour supporters will not even vote
Wanting to come here, the proposed sales are to foreign nationals and are not dependent on resident tax status.
You do not even know what the policy is and seem ignorant of media reporting experts questioning the veracity of the figures provided by National.
Being fact free is a poor base for prognosis.
For goodness sake. Can you not just read the National masterpiece tax policy.
Fabulous policy. Luxon is way better than Key – just “walks off “. Legend!
What bribes? To my mind not much has been promised, but it has been costed.
From polls to referees and lessons from the first round.
1. Chasing kicks in the air is not worth it – given the risk of a card if the player catching it is taken out.
2. Cards for upright stance head to head tackles, includes players in the landing zones of players catching a kick (those there to wrap the player and seek a turnover have to bend the knees, just like any other tackler – Curry). But not Kriel …. game changing … or would the Boks have done an England?
3. Fiji got a card for a player infringing at a maul, but there was no penalty try. Yet Biggar (and the third infringement by that stage) and later Williams deliberately infringed when a try looked likely and neither was carded. Game changing decisions?
If maul infringements get cards most easily, it will drive teams towards this tactic – but it would reduce the game as a spectacle.
Reducing the 'game' as a spectacle is not what jessica@6pm.news wants. The more maul infringements, yellow/red cards and whistle blowing the better for the media. If its all fast action and good sport, where is the intrigue, the controversy, the scandals, the news!!
Wrong yet again. National gets the massive money for the needed tax cuts from foreigners wanting to come here and from gambling casinos overseas. Just face it -this election will be a mighty rout and Labour could easily fall below 20%.
Many Labour supporters will not even vote
[You’re showing yourself again as an overzealous astroturfing troll with your duplicate comment and fact-free BS. With your history here, you get only one warning and this is it. Funnily enough, it is déjà vu all over again (https://thestandard.org.nz/labours-list-diversity-and-renewal/#comment-1325884) – Incognito]
It's more likely Labour will get back to 30% and then with Greens now polling 12% better than ACT and with TPM on 3%, it would be decided by turnout.
With National struggling to stay much above 35% with Labour's recovery and the ACT vote declining to single figures, it would be game on.
Peter's and NZF at or below 5% and ACT' s list and post election strategy questionable, National might need to spend all of it campaign war chest.
Mod note
Prediction as per a National Government and departments non front line service budgets being cut 6%.
This including the property maintenance, insurance and cleaning costs – would result in the end of front-line services at all locations – some areas only available on-line (and thus longer waits for calls to be answered with rising demand) or further afield to a front line office location (more traffic).
This is what the famous philosopher Donald Rumsfeld calls a known known,
Will National either confirm, or deny that night follows day?