The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is out and Labour pains continue for the ruling party. It is now clear to anyone who cares to note that the polls for Labour are trending down at an increasingly alarming rate.
The cost of living crisis has cost the Government dearly with New Zealand turning on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her administration.
Labour has suffered a dramatic drop in support in the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll and National has streaked ahead of them, cracking the golden 40 percent mark.
Fresh from her first post-pandemic trip to Singapore and Japan, Ardern has received a rotten welcome home gift from the public: a crisis poll.
Labour’s vote has plummeted 6.1 points, down to 38.2 percent – its first tumble into the 30s since Ardern became Prime Minister in 2017.
National has shot past Labour, cracking the 40 percent mark. It’s now at 40.5 percent, up a whopping 9.2 points, reaching close to its pre-pandemic heights.
That means ACT’s reality check has bedded in. It’s at 6.4 percent, down 1.6.
The Greens are on the descent too, at 8.4 percent, down 1.2 points.
Bucking the minors’ trend, the Maori Party is up a nudge, at 2.5 percent, up 0.5.
National would be the biggest party in Parliament on these figures, with 51 seats. Add on ACT’s eight seats, and the centre-right would have 59 – not quite enough to wrest power. It’s just two seats shy of the 61 needed.
Labour couldn’t do it either. Its 48 seats plus the Greens’ 10 come to 58. They would need three seats to get over the line.
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The worm has turned. This is now the fifth poll to show Labour behind National. The bottom line is that no one believes that Labour is the best party to lead this country. The voters are increasingly sick of listening to the lies and witnessing the endless list of failures, and they are really, really sick of the spin.
And the news isn’t better for the tyrant.
Ardern’s preferred Prime Minister rating has dropped to 36.6 percent, down seven points, representing a bigger plunge than her party Labour’s vote.
National leader Christopher Luxon is gaining. He’s up 6.1 points to 23.9 percent. It’s still nowhere near Ardern but he’s now the most popular leader National’s had since Sir Bill English.
ACT leader David Seymour is the only other politician properly registering, though he’s tumbled down 2.9 points to 5.1 percent.
The Maori Party are a significant risk; they’ve declared that they will not work with ACT. But they may actually not be in the picture if Labour wins back Waiariki.
Never count out NZ First either. Especially now Trevor Mallard has handed Winston Peters a megaphone and a platform, by trespassing him from Parliament.
National have confirmed that they are a bunch of Quislings by agreeing to support Mallard’s draconian and anti-democratic trespass orders.
It is very safe to assume now that electing Christopher Luxon will almost guarantee the advent of New Zealand’s first-ever Grand Coalition. They are in lockstep with Labour; their only point of difference being that they’d be more efficient at trampling on democracy and taking away your democratic rights. National have become Quislings.
We really need Winston Peters in parliament to queer the pitch for both major parties.
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