Goff finally passes Helen Clark as preferred PM

26 Jan 2010 06:46a.m.

Jan.. wrote:

The way the country is running at the moment China must probably step in and maybe all the coutries in the world step in..Get real folks who are we kidding..

14 Dec 2009 12:04p.m.

Anrath wrote:

Hmm, I keep thinking about the mentioned margin of error.

Funny how National supporters never mentioned this until there was a drop in popularity.
Whenever previous polls have come through National supporters have never argued about a margin of error.

So what if.... what if the drop is actually bigger and National lost 8% as the margin of error is +/- 3 percent I believe.

And no Alien, we didnt come away from the ETS well, we got lumbered with the cost of looking after business, and the Maori party won millions of dollars in compensation.

I'm not racist, I believe Maori deserve FAIR compansation.

That doesnt turn around the fact that this isnt all about race, this is about small groups of people benefitting from the National party while the rest of us lose more and more money to increased costs and levies.

If this is a recession, then every should bare the burden, because if National keeps governing like this then they will end up with the same fate as Nixon Snr's presidency during the great depression, which is to say, out on their collective ears.

What have they done about the tax payers money that they themselves are wasting?.
Slightly lowered housing allowances?, cutting back slightly on travel perks.

People compalin about helen and michael, yet key and bill are no better.

The difference is that with this government, there is going to be a far higher body count, as the sick and disabled struggle to look after themselves.

While disabled kids have to try and struggle within mainstream classes where they have never had much sucess.

all the while National looks to gag all of its employees by writing in clauses in their contracts which state that they cant publicy criticise the government... even when that government may actually be wrong and hurting your kids.


Or while we the tax payers find that government taxation is strangling us when we are already hurting.

14 Dec 2009 10:16a.m.

Deane wrote:

As Anrath has correctly said, this government has done very little for struggling New Zealanders. There seems to be no real direction or management that the Australians have seen Kevin Rudd government do in Australia.

His government got Australia out of the recession, ours has done nothing.

JKs own politicians don't seem to agree weather or not New Zealand is in a recession.

For example, Bill English is touting, after only one month of growth at a miserable 0.4% claiming New Zealand is no longer in a recession, yet at a public meeting, two of his Hamilton MPs used the "recession" as a means of squshing the railing service between Hamilton and Auckland.

Quoting them "New Zealand is currently in a recession".

Then we have 7% unemployment, uncertaintity of ACC, user charges for physio affecting a lot of Kiwis, the U turn on tax cuts then the embarassment of JK calling Copenhagan a "photo opportunity" and being made to attend kicking and screaming.

National ETS has moved the cost away from the polluters to the working Kiwi.

This government has turned out to be a flop and the sooner the voter realised the better before we all end up with nothing.

14 Dec 2009 09:31a.m.

Alien wrote:

Anrath, actually NZ came away from the ETS rather good, the cost to each kiwi is half of what we would be paying under Labour. Don't worry, this is just the labour racists reacting to Goff playing his racist card. It will fall again. Goff is a goner.

14 Dec 2009 12:32a.m.

Wimpie wrote:

No C, I disagree. Your analysis is far to dark. Phil Gaffe is a winner, as is clear from that magnificent jump in popularity. He's up, up and away. And TV3 rejoices in this wonderful news. They haven't had much to rejoice in this past year, so every little spark is welcome.

13 Dec 2009 10:22p.m.

Brian wrote:

This goes to prove many things:
1st The labour vote is fickle.
2nd The memory of "them, being clark-cullen" is even more fickle.
3rd The differences between any of the loony left is indecipheral except for fogoff who is the only one of the loonie left that "our news services" find time to fill the void with when there is no other rubbish available.
Could go on for many more examples but see such analysis as being a complete waste of time. The mere fact that the cc brigade are now history, or should I say a bloody nightmare of pur past and the "fronts person" fogoff is now the stand in is irrelevant.

13 Dec 2009 09:42p.m.

Anrath wrote:

C, perhaps the country is actually starting to realise that John Key is only about helping those that really can srvive well enough already without it.

Dunne and Key's new tax cuts are miniscule and aimed at around 300,000 people, thats around 10 percent of people aged 18-65.

Think the other 90 percent might be a little upset that their tax cuts got taken away?.

This government has actually given us no way to get out of the hole that we are in, even with that expertise they are predicting 10 years of deficits?.

Even with the ETS, only one group came away from that with anything, the rest of us lost out.

This government has cut more and more government help for those most in need than from any other sector in society.

Its doing little to nothing but promising its coalition partners nothing but small favours whilst the rest of us get left behind.

Perhaps C, New Zealand is starting to become a little unhappy with John Key and the national party?.

What has John Key done for working class New Zealand or anyone?

In fact what if anything has he done that hasnt served his own self interest in running the country.. as opposed to looking after it.

Being a part of John Keys business is all that we are, I see little to no compassion in anything he has done so far to date.

13 Dec 2009 08:49p.m.

Christopher Smith wrote:

Good to see New Zealand First improving - I guess any publicity is good publicity.

13 Dec 2009 07:01p.m.

Kim wrote:

I see the maori party hardly rate a mention in this survey. What a surprise ;)
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13 Dec 2009 06:46p.m.

C wrote:

I hardly think an uplift of less than 4 percent is a sign that the public is falling behind Phil Gaffe and his incompetent bunch of goonies. That's within the margin of error, and likely shows that this particular sample had a slight skew towards Labour supporters. Given his own people disagree with his speech, your tabloid style headlines suggesting Labour and Goff have made an impact is ludicrous.