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6:41 pm, October 11th, 2024 - 9 comments
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I appreciate this is a Curia poll and the results should be treated with caution.
But the latest Curia poll result suggests that things are not happy in National’s ranks.
National is down 4.1% to 34.9%.
Labour is up 3.6% to 30.3%.
The Greens are down 0.6% to 10.4%.
Act is up 0.9% to 9.7%.
NZ First is up 0.8% to 7.6%.
Te Pati Maori is down 2% to 3%.
The right still has a majority. But things are looking very unstable.
Luxon’s response to the poll result, “I just don’t care” which comes out on the same day as news that he is ridding himself of a third mortgage free rental property suggests that he thinks his time as Prime Minister may not last. Maybe he is cashing up and readying himself for a quick exit.
The most significant result was that Health is rising up the list of most important issues. This issue is a slow cooker but a will develop irreversible momentum. National will not be able to cut expenditure and improve primary and hospital care. Nothing is more certain.
The Greens need to sort their stuff out. And Labour needs to be up front and offer passionate public opposition. This Government should be on the ropes. Labour needs to offer a passionate and thought through alternative.
"I just don't care……."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/national-and-pm-christopher-luxon-suffer-drop-in-taxpayers-union-curia-poll/OIVZA2NVGVBW3OAM6CMQM7IHJA/
Come on Mr Chips…..say something!!
Jee–zus Micky–you are West Auckland/New Lynn Labour–in your heart you surely know the answer and it is time to front up. NZ Labour has to retire Rogernomics and its toxic legacy once and for all, and become a Corbynesque Social Democratic Party with a big outreach to working class communities.
“For the many not the few”
correction…'I appreciate this is a Curia poll and the results should be treated with disdain' .
That's true. Farrar and Curia have basically been expelled from the Research Association of New Zealand for corrupt polling practice. It's always worth seriously questioning Farrar's results because, by definition, there is always a political motive behind them.
I wonder what jones price will be to bring nzf back to labour next election ?
National cannot move closer to ACT or NZF positions (the Brash move) without risk of more loss to Labour in the centre.
And yet if they do not, any further drift to these parties risks Labour becoming the party with the most support (see National’s 2017 complaint – the largest party is entitled to lead the government).
He and his party are getting sorted.
Key managed the other parties by not being dependent on them, now the coalition partners are managing National.
The 4.1 drop for national is pretty telling. I don't think a ruling party has dropped in its first year. So sad.
I'd say National have lost support to Labour either directly, or indirectly via some chair changes in ACT and NZF.
But Luxon doesn't care. He says that a lot, and Kiwis are starting to believe it, that he simply does not care. Willis is genuinely thick and, as finance minister, has not been able to control the whacky thought bubbles of the triumvirate, to the economy's detriment.
Dreadful numbers out yesterday on the deficit. That's what happens when you literally threaten the public and private sector with loss of jobs 24/7. Guess what, employers retreat and produce less. Imagine speaking so negatively for so long that people just give up and fuck off.
Luxon and Willis have single handedly crippled several sectors, including Wellington, timber products and sheep and beef meat, and absolutely destroyed infrastructure must haves like IREX and Three Waters. They've also got everyone really angry with the attack on Te Reo and what's left of our founding document.
Well done, idiots. Custodians of the economy? The public may just be waking up.