For some time it has been obvious to me that the polls have failed to reflect the true mood of the country. There seems to have been a lag between what the poll numbers were throwing up and where the country actually was. The numbers for Labour have seemed on the high side. Sure, there has been a trickle of a downward trend but not enough to indicate a significant change in sentiment. Until last Sunday night, that is.
The Reid Research Newshub Poll finally gave us a hint of what is to come between now and the election. The trickle is yet to become a torrent but the momentum has begun.
Labour can look forward to being on something akin to a waterslide ride at a Disney Fun Park. Except it will be the centre-right having the fun.
Disney character names seem appropriate for Ardern and Robertson as both live in a fantasy world of Schwab’s socialist doctrine and economic illiteracy.
Ardern could bethe Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. We are told her power lay in her rhetoric. How appropriate.
Robertson is a Daffy Duck type character. Daffy is the deuteragonist, the second most important character, in the Looney Tunes franchise. Robertson has this role in the Government. Daffy has variously been described as selfish and mean-spirited, and perhaps more importantly, has difficulty telling fantasy apart from reality. Robertson describing Schwab and the Great Reset as a conspiracy theory comes to mind.
The Queen and Daffy need to realise that neither their ‘can do’ nor their ‘no can do’ are wanted by the majority of voters. In terms of their ‘can do’, the electorate is waking up to what Labour’s Three Waters really means. It is nothing more than a back-door power grab by elite Maori for ownership of water, something that they have long coveted.
On another front, we don’t want democracy blighted with nonsensical hate speech laws. Light rail is not wanted, nor the bike bridge to Birkenhead, nor more cycleways. We do not want a separate Maori Health Authority nor do we want centralisation where everything is controlled from and by Wellington. We are shocked that a major tourist city, Rotorua, has been all but ruined by being used as a dumping ground for the homeless, including gang members.
Most of all, we don’t want co-governance.
On the ‘no can do’, voters are unimpressed at the utter failure of Labour in health, education, poverty, and housing: in fact in every area where there should be an improvement but the statistics tell the opposite story. Ministers are incapable of handling their portfolios. Verbosity laced with throwing liberal amounts of our money at a problem doesn’t cut it. Where is the accountability? Where are the targets? The people we have had running this country for the last five years are nothing more than a lazy bunch of incompetents.
Labour came in on a Covid landslide. They can count on getting tossed out in a Bovid landslide.
No government in history has done more to upset the farming community than the current one.
They are showing total ignorance and contempt for farmers and zero appreciation for the business of running a farm. The Labour Government is foisting undue amounts of red tape and other impositions on farmers. Much of what the Government is telling them to do they are already doing. Rural New Zealand is at boiling point over this emissions nonsense.
I haven’t even mentioned the cost of living crisis coupled with rampant inflation. Add this to what I’ve mentioned above and it doesn’t take much to work out that Labour is dooming itself to the Opposition Benches for at least three terms. The complete fiasco this Government has been will not be forgotten in a hurry. They have only themselves to blame.
The Queen and the Daffy need to wake up to the fact that socialism is fine until you run out of Kiwis’ money. You can also run out of Kiwis’ love, as the Sunday night poll shows.
