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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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.
Why Does the National Party Continue to Be So Pig-Headed?
National is doing its utmost to chance having the most terrifying prospect ever in NZ: a hard-left socialist coalition handed power.
A True MMP Election at Last
What voters on the right are saying by splitting their votes is ‘No, we don’t want a strong National Party: we want ACT and NZ First to have a bigger say in post-election negotiations and also over the next term.’
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.
Winston Peters Is Carrying the Right on His Back.
A Freshwater Strategy deck published by the Platform shows National down 12 points since 2023 and NZ First holding the right bloc together. The numbers check out.
Would You Trust These Politicians?
Governing demands fiscal discipline, competent execution, and tactical clarity at the ballot box. New Zealand is not someone else’s company – it belongs to all of us.
Is This Election Already Over?
A polling clerk told me voting had been heavy all weekend. By Friday, nearly 600,000 votes had been cast, 32 per cent more than at the same stage in 2023.
Money Does Not Grow On Trees and nor Does Experience
You must also grow the basket if you want an economy that provides both structural and social stability.
The Story Everyone Is Missing
Why visiting a criminal gang-pad may reveal more about the centre-left's future than the latest polls.
Facts Are Facts Mr Luxon
National has lost the respect of its voter base. For that it, and everyone on the right, could pay a heavy price this Saturday. I hope and pray it doesn’t happen.
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.
Still Refusing to Accept the Obvious
Is there a more sinister reason National don’t want vote splitting?
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.
Interesting Election Races: Chris Bishop
Perhaps, by electing Chris Bishop, they will give National a better future leader.