Nearly two-thirds of New Zealand voters think that the country is going in the wrong direction, nominating cost-of-living, the health system and crime as the top three issues when voting begins on October 2.
The latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy Poll shows that 63% of voters think the country is heading in the wrong direction, while only 21% think it is headed in the right direction, followed closely by 15% who said it was not moving either way.
For most of the John Key/Bill English years and continuing through most of Jacinda Ardern’s tenure as prime minister, most polls showed New Zealanders through to 2022 thought that the country was going in the right direction.
It is generally considered in New Zealand that negative campaigns only work when the public think that the country is going in the wrong direction. When most people are happy, the message doesn’t resonate.
The Post
Labour has to go negative because they simply have no achievements on which to hang their hat.
Labour has now entered a doom spiral, where negative polls get progressively worse.
Labour politicians will know this because Kiwi voters will now be crossing the road to avoid being near them. Because politicians normally live in a bubble surrounded by sycophants they won’t have noticed the general turning-away.
But with the election campaign underway it is now unavoidable. They have relentless bad news dumping on them, with polls arriving every week and policies being torn apart in the news cycle.
Have a care for those poor Labour MPs watching their political careers burn on the election bonfire. They’ve studiously ignored all the bad polls until now…and now they can’t avoid them.
The turning away is happening.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. This article was first published HERE
5 comments:
Hi Cam, what stuns me is that it's taken so long for the vast majority of kiwis to finally understand that this terrible destructive rasist labour bunch are no good. Shame on us really for letting them destroy this country.
The incessant, ridiculous lying even by senior labour types really gets under NZer's skin.
Made a wrong turn six years go.
As Einstein said, after hydrogen stupidity is the most common thing in the universe.
The absolute proof that one third of NZ voters are idiots or mentally disabled. Kiwialan.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
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