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Corrected from 2023 in earlier article
National held its ground until late 2024
If we remove outlier results from Curia (National Party November 2024) National started trending down in October 2024.
Verian alone shows a clearer deterioration in early 2025. However the polls are still too very close.
i.e. This is an electorate that is still up for grabs and we still have a long way to go.
Labour lost ground post-Covid (2017 to present)
Jobseekers up 12% year on year
Nearly 22,000 more jobseekers, 10,000 of those in Auckland. 22,000 is the size of New Plymouth.
In October, jobseekers was also up 12%.
London Ads Attack Elon Musk & Donald Trump
US Government Defies Court Order: Deports immigrants to a “max-prison” in El Salvador despite Judge Ordering Them To Stop
“Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally, said.
America will pay El Salvador US $6 million to house the immigrants for a year.
A feature of Atlas Network is centralising power in the executive and away from the judiciary.
National’s Privatisation Pitch Belies The Neoliberal, Libetarian Takeover For Big Money
National’s promise to “provide stability” for foreign investors is just another pre-text to sell NZ to the lowest bidder on its terms and contracts.
Nicola Willis “rejects” she cancelled all of the last government’s infrastructure programs, arguing ‘Those investments were bad ‘un's’.
America Detains Columbia University Pro-Palestiniain Leader, a US permanent resident - For Deportation
Khalil was arrested on 8 March. The Trump Administration is seeking to deport him under a provision of federal law that allows the Secretary of State to deport if the individual is deemed to “have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”.
This has parallels to the potential abuse from the New Zealand’s Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill.
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The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza after Israeli Raid
James Grenon Takeover of NZME Board Almost Complete
Rupert Murdoch press is painting the takeover as “Tycoon in push to save struggling group”. This is the same media and big money that saw Jacinda Ardern’s popularity as a threat - and attacked her government relentlessly.
Grenon has or is near the 50% threshold to takeover the NZME Board, and pressure is being put on Directors to resign before the Board meeting next month.
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Each picture Tuuii is one worth 1000 words:
Curia poll definitely an outrightliar
The 22,000 job seekers probs excludes the 25,000 who have voted with their feet
NZME will become a bigger outliar
Funny how the msm seem to be painting a prettier picture, perhaps perspective is partisan?