Swarbrick Wants the Treasury Keys and Calls It Bullying When You Mention Them
Chlöe Swarbrick asked for the most powerful job in government. National quoted her. Now she says she is being cyber-bullied.
Luxon’s Six Giants and the Seat He Is Really Defending
National says the split-vote push is a threat to the country. Look closer and it is a threat to one list seat, and Luxon has a funny idea of who counts as a giant.
Your mate reads for free. Election week is the week to fix that.
You know the one. Reads every morning, never pays. Election week is the time to forward this to them.
National Would Rather Police Its Donor Than Win the Argument
Someone complained. Mowbray told RNZ he has made “an assumption” that it was National. He has a reason.
The Week at The Good Oil, 23 to 29 Oct
Gangs, billboards and the overhang. Everything we ran from 23 to 29 October.
Luxon Is Chasing Bill English’s Record and Caucus Let Him
National is on 24.8 in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll, below Judith Collins in 2020. Christopher Luxon still says he won’t share the top job.
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The Gangs Row Did Not Miss The Left. It Hit The Whole Bloc.
1News says Labour held steady through the gangs row. Labour did. The left did not. The poll was in the field the week Kerrin Leoni’s footage came out, and the right bloc now sits on 61 seats to the left’s 56.
An Overhang Ends The List Gravy Train
Rodney Hide says National is heading for an overhang. If he is right, National’s party vote stops buying seats, the list loses its power and MPs who have never won an electorate lose their free pass. Paul Goldsmith has lost Epsom five times.