Quick Hit: Unemployment Hits 5.7% and Winston Saw It Coming
Unemployment is at 5.7%, 174,000 people are out of work and long-term joblessness is the highest since 1994. Winston Peters says he told National and ACT to delay their tax cuts.
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Quick Hit: Where National’s 2023 Voters Went
RNZ-Reid Research shows only 56.9 per cent of National’s 2023 voters still back the party. ACT and NZ First now hold 18.4 per cent of them.
Quick Hit: What NZ First Says It Delivered for Superannuitants, Checked
Winston Peters read out a list in Papakura. We checked it against the official record.
Quick Hit: Labour built the blob, and even 9,000 cuts won’t shrink it back
Department bosses have been told to model a 15 per cent staff cut. Even the 55,000 target leaves the public service bigger than the one Labour inherited in 2017.
Quick Hit: What an Overhang Actually Does
National won 43 electorates last time and the latest Verian poll gives it 34 MPs on party vote. Here is what happens to the gap.
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The Frauds and Lies
If Labour wins the election, don’t worry. Look in the mirror and say ‘I can get through anything!’ Go exercise that right brain of yours by painting a smiling painting of Chippy. If you see someone getting beaten up by gang members, it’s OK to do nothing because that’s what everyone else would do.
Two Final Polls Say Overhangs Decide It, and the Left Is Banking on One
The final 1News Verian and Taxpayers’ Union-Curia polls both say electorate seats will decide this election and the left is counting on Te Pāti Māori winning seats its party vote cannot earn. So much for overhangs being a dirty trick.
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