Popularity of St. Jacinda’s Party Soars After Her Resignation
Two major polls on Tuesday showed that New Zealand’s Labour jumped five percentage points in the first five days that Chris Hipkins was at the helm, following Jacinda Ardern’s shock resignation, which came because she had failed and become an electoral liability “didn’t have enough in the tank”. The Telegraph has more.
Chris Hipkins, a once close ally of Ms Ardern who has sought to distance himself from the former leader since taking power, promised a return to “core bread and butter issues”. …
His comments and reshuffle came as his Labour Party was buoyed by a boost in the polls after Ms Ardern stepped down amid discord over her premiership.
Two major polls on Tuesday showed New Zealand’s Labour jumped five percentage points in the first five days that Mr Hipkins was at the helm.
Analysts had questioned whether the party could bounce back from a dismal year without the globally admired Ms Ardern.
Ms Ardern announced a fortnight ago that she “didn’t have enough in the tank” to go to the October election.
Her decision, which she insisted was hers alone, came after intense scrutiny over her Government’s strict Covid lockdowns, rampant inflation and a cost of living crisis.
Personal and party popularity had plummeted by December to their lowest since Ms Ardern became Prime Minister in 2017.
Mr Hipkins polled 23% as the preferred prime minister in the 1News poll, one percentage point above Christopher Luxon, the opposition National Party leader.
Seems it’s not just us who are glad to see the back of the authoritarian Queen of Woke.
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Not sure it’s much to rejoice about. Her replacement was Minister for Health & Covid Response.
I don’t want the New Zealand Labour Party to be popular, I want them to fail.
I want the people to show to those who want (and get) power that they have the capability to be very dangerous.
But, the people get the power freaks they deserve.
Indeed. I don’t know much about NZ politics but suspect the popularity boost is nothing to do with rejection of covid era madness or any kind of new dawn for freedom loving people – probably just they were a bit browned off with her and fancied a change. I will be interested to see what happens at the next election here in the UK – Tory support will collapse but a lot of that will go to other mainstream parties. I suspect not many DS readers will vote Tory but who knows?
The few clips I’ve heard if this fella – another ugly barsteward – he would give Hitler a run for his money. This one is off the scale Evil. I know it takes some believing.
“ I know it takes some believing.”
Well, these days my default assumption is that any political leader is pretty rotten until proven otherwise. So far I’ve not seen much to contradict that assumption.
My take is that, like Australia across the ditch, and in the UK, NZ have extreme left and slightly less extreme left. I don’t see anything to rejoice about.
Luxon is not conservative in any way.
Yup
The replacement is a lockdown fanatic and Covidiot and Preacher in the Church of Rona. He is just as bad if not worse than Horse Head. Undoubtedly the UberFuehrer will be rewarded by the retards in NZ with a crushing victory, the sheeple crying as they vote thanking the Rona Nazi for saving them.
At least Shergars teeth were put to good use 🐴.
I trust polls like this about as much as I would trust a Midazolam Matt home medication pack.
“A Midazolam Matt Home Medication Pack.”
Oh, that’s Class.
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A little snippet of what’s in store:
https://rumble.com/v26kh7s-january-21-2023.html
Oh please, celebrating one fascist exit with the entrance of another is no comfort. Hipkins threatened unjabbed with ‘we will hunt you down’ mantra. The message is the same, they just change the messenger. If anything, this is more affirmation that the status quo exists and that these..ahem.. ‘polls’ are tools to dupe the public at large that there is consensus. #TeamJames
This is probably just the sort of opinion poll bounce new leaders typically enjoy. Hipkins is every bit as evil and dangerous as Ardern but lacks the public relations skills she once had. I suspect his popularity will decline over the coming months.
By far the best political party in New Zealand is the Act Party, essentially a classical liberal party. Regrettably, its position on Covid has been disappointingly craven like a number of ‘libertarians’ in England whose principles crumbled when confronted with an infection risk. The National Party always governs from the centre and without a strong Act presence in government policy in New Zealand will drift leftwards.
So one authoritarian Covid Fascist is replaced with another one …… and the bullied, controlled, brainwashed NZ population indicates it will forgive and forget.
The idiots deserve what they get. As do the Canadians.
I hope the Brits are wiser (but I doubt it).
Any country stupid enough to vote for socialism deserves everything they get. Poor Kiwis, they were so admired.