I agree that is shitty reporting. But the problem as I see it is voter turn out for local government elections is shite and fails to attract 50% participation. The 53% who are undecided probably won't bother to vote in any case.
Simon Bridges had ambitions to win back the leadership when he won Tauranga in 2020. I don't think he had any plans to leave this term. The swing in the Polls under Luxon's leadership told him that those ambitions would not be fulfilled for the best part ...
Its a crap policy, and won't do anything to remove gangs. But I agree with you Ross that the government has to be careful to not be portrayed as siding with the gangs. Do we really want to be defending the Mongrel Mob's rights to wear nazi insignia in ...
And in 12 months 3 Waters will be a distant memory and inflation will be under control. Those two issues are the only things keeping National in the game currently. With them gone, Labour should ease back into office (perhaps with the support of the Greens...
Why on earth would Jacinda go to the polls now where there is a reasonable prospect of losing? It would be dumbest move since the drunk Pig did it in 1984.
The government needs to tell Farmers to piss off and join the real world. They need be brought into the ETS now. A National government is a real possibility next year which means these things need to be done now, before we get ourselves into another decade...
Well you are "fucking stupid moron" if you think it is well understood. Well done you for having done the research. You aren't the problem though. The public is the problem as they are clearly struggling to get their heads around what it means.
Agreed Support of co-governance seems to depend on what side your cheer for rather than any real understanding of the concept. Lefties are for, righties are against, but neither side can really articulate why, rather it appears they are going with the ...
Agreed 100% ,but I don't think National will be spooking the horses with details of their alternative budget this far out from the election. They will be trying to firm up some of that support. I think a lot of this will turn on where we are sitting in 12 ...
It is one of the more difficult budgets to deliver. On the face of it revenue is exceptional, unemployment is extremely low and generally the economy is booming. Overhanging that is the dark cloud of inflation and the reality that everyone is getting less ...
That has nothing to do with Corey's statement
Why would they take that into consideration? Most people vote on what each party is proposing for the future, not what has happened in the past.
Do you buy this? What they give with one hand they will take with the other.
Except nobody votes on what happened in the 90s. People vote on what is going to happen in the 20s. Who has the answers for the future?
Yeah its about our economy though. What is happening elsewhere is irrelevant when people got to the polls. The question people ask themselves is am I doing better than I was 2 years ago. It's not am I doing better than someone living in Germany or Canada.
Nobody is going to vote on the basis of whether New Zealand is doing better than Australia (which is debatable at best).
He's running on his experience lol he ran a company that govt had to bail out multiple times under his leadership Got a source for that Corey?
Federal law passed by congress can still be overturned by the Supreme Court if it breaches the constitution
National's surge in the polls has coincided directly with Luxon being promoted to the leadership. When he arrived National was consistently mid 20s. He has overseen a 15% point increase in support in a short space of time which I think can only be ...
Agree with what you have said, but just to clarify Jack is part of the NZME stable doing Saturday mornings on ZB and being a regular contributor to the Herald.
People who think Luxon gaffed here don't really understand Tories or their supporters. Public Transport is never something they will support. They refer to people catching buses as losers catching the loser cruiser. They build motorways to drive their BMWs...
You do make one valid point. Bacon = awesome
He's not saying Chloe is going to roll James. He is saying the constitution is being changed so that when James leaves, Chloe will be his most likely successor.
It is an operational matter. That's a Costa issue. Poto can't control that and shouldn't interfere.
Rent definitely. But we shouldn't be stopping there. There needs to be greater price control across the board.
Labour could promise every Tauranga citizen a million dollars each, dropped into their bank account the day after the bi-election - provided that the Labour candidate is elected... And they would still lose. This is not a poll on the government's ...
I am filled with pessimism when I read your post Weka. I agree with everything you have to say but cannot see that humanity has any intention to reverse what we have done to our planet. In New Zealand and many countries there is a sense of common purpose (...
Don't tempt fate. Remember when Roger Douglas climbed out of his coffin and came back to Parliament in 2008 to haunt us. He did fuck all while he was there for his second stint but it was still scary.
I agree. It will be as uneventful as the 2017 Mt Albert by-election when Jacinda romped in. If I was Labour, I wouldn't allow the Nats to treat this as some kind of victory over the government and would therefore not put up a candidate and essentially ...
Everywhere in my view. Look what happened to Churchill after WWII.
In my view governments rarely get "rewarded" for the good the things they have done, but they get severely punished for the things they have failed to do (or in the eyes of the media, they have failed to do). Next years election won’t be a performance ...
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