It's the end of the first week of the school holiday recess from Parliament. You'd think Phil Goff would have been taking advantage of the political vacuum here to get a headline or two, but not so. So we've given Phil a headline tonight.
Why? Gary Morgan from the Roy Morgan polling company explains:
The latest New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll shows support for John Key’s National-led Government has strengthened to 58.5% (up 3%), comprising National Party 53% (up 2.5%), Maori Party 3% (unchanged), ACT NZ 2% (up 1%) and United Future 0.5% (down 0.5%).
Support for Opposition Parties has fallen to 41.5% (down 3%); Labour Party 29% (down 4%), Greens 8.5% (down 1%), New Zealand First 3% (up 1.5%), and Others 1% (up 0.5%).
If a National Election were held today the National Party would be clearly returned to Government.
The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating is well up, 7.5pts to 144 with 65% (up 4.5%) of New Zealanders saying New Zealand is ‘heading in the right direction’ compared to 21% (down 3%) that say New Zealand is ‘heading in the wrong direction.’
So, interest rates have gone up, power and fuel prices have gone up, the government has introduced its ETS (which we revile) and Labour has been attacking the government on multiple fronts. And what's happened? Between them, Labour and the Greens have DROPPED five percentage points, whilst National is up 2.5 points to 53% support.
Where to now for Phil Goff? We daresay there will be a number of MP's from Labour's caucus asking that question of themselves and of one another, whilst sending texts and exchanging e-mails. If Labour can't get traction in this environment, commonsense says that they are history for 2011.
4 comments:
Don't worry chaps. Mainstream Mallard will save them.
Remember him? He's the bloke who wanted to build a mega stadium in Auckland so all those mainstream groupie sheilas could go and throw themselves all over rugby, league, yaghting, shess and dominos stars because such behaviour is A OK in the Neew Zealand of today.
And it appears the girly men in the National Party agree with him.
Are you suggesting that Haden's comments were appropriate Adolf?
ACT has doubled it's support.
No doubt thanks to the ETS campaigning.
We can but hope great oak trees grow out of this little acorn.
Those stats have been remarkedly consistent since the election (and even before, going back to 2006)Still there are those deniers who rubbish these polls. The village idiot of the rabid left who is also a D-grade media commentator (but apparently an A-grade antique plate collector)fuminates that these polls are 'brainfart bullshit'. Mind you he has recently interviewed his MacBook Pro and has proclaimed "I'm getting a lot of feedback from people who voted for Key who are now furious with their decisions and I think there's a real chance National could go in the next election"
Still luvin that change feeling Bumber
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