Nz may not be in a recession but I wouldn't be shouting from the rooftops how great the economy is and how everything is fine because for most people it's not fine. For two years kiwis have felt their living standards slip, and Labour has been incredibly ...
Good blog post but the 80 year trend of changing leaders mid term was ended in 2017. Bill English became the first such leader to win the most votes since 1943, had it not been a proportional election he would have won 2017 in a dramatic landslide victory....
Nzers who think nz and or nz public transportation is dangerous should travel the world more. They'll yearn for the "danger" of nz lol. It's hilarious and cute that a country with one of the very lowest crime rates in the world thinks crimes out of control...
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 ...
I hope this isn't the best they've got to get Gen z to turn up ... It's no zero interest student loan and Gen y hates it cos it's not universal. It's a step in the right direction but... Meh... They've ruled out anything that can excite the base let alone ...
National probably will win the election but they'll be out in three years because this election is a poison chalice. Why would anyone want to win it?! The economy is screwed, china's slow down will ruin us and tinkering with the tax system won't stop us ...
No he does not have a large local profile, he's basically an unknown, he's just some dude who was on the council 7 years ago and who ran as an independent 6 years ago. That's it.. He's not well known, he lived in wellington for much of theast six years and...
Fontera is the NRA of NZ. We are destroying our environment (which hurts our tourism industry in the long run) our drinking water and selling out our sovereignty as a nation that holds power to account just so we can sell cheap low grade milk powder. ...
It's very hollow because history tells us that if NZ first hadn't already ruled out Labour then Labour would never rule out NZ First, no matter what NZ First ever says. NZ first has always said crazy offensive and bigoted crap, its never stopped Labour ...
It's crazy that he did that and it's crazy that labor is so weak that the right got 71% of questions in a committee. But it's irrelevant cos noones paying attention. The elections a foregone conclusion in most people's minds and have hence tuned out. ...
Is David Seymour trying to say his party is as corrupt as the African National Congress party of South Africa? Because I can totally see that level of fraud and embezzlement coming from Act if they ever led a government, I mean just look at the level of ...
I've always believed we should have fully publicly funded elections, with every candidate getting about 10 K and playing on a level playing field. Sure it's expensive but I'd rather an expensive democracy with level playing field than have the wealthy, ...
Wow that's a horrendous valedictory. For someone whose career ended the way it did, this just makes it obvious, he doesn't think he did anything wrong. Still petulant, saying ministers should be able to attack judges and interfere in court cases and ...
He may be trying to emulate Winstons public persona but Winston on a good day has a charm, charisma and sense of humour that are impossible to fake. Seymour always comes off as an edgy head boy perfect with limited life experiences. Winston love him or ...
Yes actually, I agree with you. A lot of lefty's hate Winston, but without him we'd probably be in a fifth term of national govt (had they handled covid well) The 2017-2020 govt achieved quite a lot, NZF's is a weird party that is often to the left of ...
Housing is like a horror movie under Labour. If National win, it will be like an disaster or apocalypse movie, choir and all. Labour is awful, National is horrific. Consents are not built houses. Repairs are not new builds. It is truly ghastly out there ...
In that situation you'd probably have a Nat minority govt with confidence and supply from Act and Nzf outside of cabinet. Sounds like a nightmare, Can you imagine trying to get NZF and Act to agree on a budget .... Good lord... Not much would get done ...
Interesting though that the next highest number for wrong direction is a year before Helen Clark got Labours second highest mmp result. What happened in 2001?
86,000 new people in a country with crumbling infrastructure and an apocalyptic housing crisis that only builds 27,000 homes a year.... Golly.... And that's under a labour government... Nats/Act will have that up up to about 150,000- 200,000 arrivals a ...
Labour clearly needs better advisors, pollsters and focus groups because noone thinks of Chris bloody hipkins as an everyman or a Kiwi battler lmfao. People cringe and roll their eyes when he says "boy from the hutt" or "bread and butter" we've seen him ...
Labours big big announcement was a dud. A policy that had already leaked to the public. The Blairite is firmly in save the furniture mode, he doesn't believe or want another term
What's wrong with Damien O'Connors statement? I have more of a problem with the PMs response to the statement, which as usual uses a lot of words to say nothing at all. Study after study has shown NZ has a taxation issue and for an extremely earthquake, ...
Teachers already do take your phone off you if you use it in class. They are dangerous and distractions though let's be real, smart phones and social media make adults extremely unproductive, they promote cliquey and hive mind group think mentalities, ...
Agreed. It's no secret where any of Labour or Greens Mps stand, they are quite open and passionate about this and while I think it comes from a good place of wanting to help people and not exclude people, I think their tendency to shut down and any nuanced...
the party wants to win but they picked a leader who thinks showing strength is knee capping his own party. It's August 8, we still haven't seen a single policy from Labour. He has no idea how to win over middle NZ and centrist voters, he has smugly ...
And what's there even to do in the North shore once you get there?? Nothing but listening to Lorde and moan about not taking the Yacht out enough. The scary thing about the project is if they say in 2023 it's gonna cost $15 billion, by 2029 it's gonna cost...
Hell yes!!! This, the under 130 K tax cut and the housing policy are the exact policies you'd expect from a centre left Labour govt. Universalist, social democratic policies that would have made people take a second look at labour had labour announced them...
I'm in two minds about it. If the UK, USA and Australia want to increase their influence and decrease China's influence over the Pacific, instead of blowing shit up, they could start buying shit up, ie trade deals. Why would any sensible country obliterate...
But Seymour on 10% preferred pm...... Is.... Yikes.... Do you think maybe , despite everything we say as a country, NZ just deep down really really likes trickle down economics and user pays? Because NZ only ever elects govts who promise to double down on ...
I feel like it should be " the cost of living and housing" I feel like the media and politicians seperate housing from cost of living so it looks like housing costs aren't a great concern. They are the same thing. Rents mortgages and rates are living costs...
A lot of the reason people, especially young people, hate labour is because they haven't been radical on housing, or poverty or the environment or healthcare. Labour ran as low key populists in 2017 and in 2020, were given a mandate to everything they ...
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