If National wins ...

[artemis]

mr little could always jump on a horse with no shirt on .....

I'll never be able to unsee that picture.

[Gizzajob I can do that]

Just for craic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIckHmwZAeI

[GTM 3442]

Key and co, trying to dig a sod for the symbolic start of the new undersea comms cable. Note the blue spades and ribbons. It's a National Party PR stint. Except they really do look like a bunch of muppets.

https://twitter.com/TheNBR/status/801274579603685377

Come on - any politician with a spade looks a muppet.

[Sgt Pepper]

Come on - any politician with a spade looks a muppet.

It is very unfair comparing John Key trying to dig a hole to the muppets.... unfair to the muppets that is.

[winner69]

Another 'bogus poll' out

Colmar Brunton - Nats 50% Labour 28% Greens 11%

Next election a non-event sadly

[elZorro]

Another 'bogus poll' out

Colmar Brunton - Nats 50% Labour 28% Greens 11%

Next election a non-event sadly

W69, I've had a look through the latest poll, and watched John Key on TV taking the 50% party vote and writing down the effect of his lowered 'preferred PM' data. This poll straddled a big earthquake that many of us felt, so you'd expect some support for the current govt. Again, Colmar Brunton referred to new methods of communication that many use (i.e. cellphones) but then only polled people who had a landline.

Given all this, it's surprising the disengagement of the 1,000 eligible voters they eventually talked to. The party vote figures were for only about 800 of the 1,000 - the rest were unlikely to vote. But it looks like all 1,000 gave their opinion of sorts on the preferred PM. 34% of them suggested no-one, another 3% suggested someone not on the list at all, presumably the first person that popped into their head. Looking at John Key's preferred PM rating on a time scale, it peaked long ago and has a distinct downward trend, although it's levelling out.

The Labour-Green group have to mobilise this large tranche of non-voters, people who are hard to contact, but whom presumably watch TV. Imagine the money that will require. That's why being in power is a strong position, and National are taking plenty of Labour-looking initiatives like equal pay changes (around the fringes), to try and keep everyone on board.

But I think offering out small tax cuts at this stage, after they've plundered the Crown's book situation, and will need to do so again, is absurd.

[fungus pudding]

W69, I've had a look through the latest poll, and watched John Key on TV taking the 50% party vote and writing down the effect of his lowered 'preferred PM' data. This poll straddled a big earthquake that many of us felt, so you'd expect some support for the current govt. Again, Colmar Brunton referred to new methods of communication that many use (i.e. cellphones) but then only polled people who had a landline.

Given all this, it's surprising the disengagement of the 1,000 eligible voters they eventually talked to. The party vote figures were for only about 800 of the 1,000 - the rest were unlikely to vote. But it looks like all 1,000 gave their opinion of sorts on the preferred PM. 34% of them suggested no-one, another 3% suggested someone not on the list at all, presumably the first person that popped into their head. Looking at John Key's preferred PM rating on a time scale, it peaked long ago and has a distinct downward trend, although it's levelling out.

The Labour-Green group have to mobilise this large tranche of non-voters, people who are hard to contact, but whom presumably watch TV. Imagine the money that will require. That's why being in power is a strong position, and National are taking plenty of Labour-looking initiatives like equal pay changes (around the fringes), to try and keep everyone on board.

But I think offering out small tax cuts at this stage, after they've plundered the Crown's book situation, and will need to do so again, is absurd.

Translation: I don't like this poll - so I don't believe it.

[elZorro]

Translation: I don't like this poll - so I don't believe it.

FP, if that's what you got out of what I wrote, I think you missed a few points. Here's the poll data so you can double-check.

http://www.colmarbrunton.co.nz/wp-co...2-13-21-23.pdf

[fungus pudding]

FP, if that's what you got out of what I wrote, I think you missed a few points. Here's the poll data so you can double-check.

http://www.colmarbrunton.co.nz/wp-co...2-13-21-23.pdf

I'm sure I will have missed a few points in your post. I didn't read it.

[elZorro]

I'm sure I will have missed a few points in your post. I didn't read it.

At least you're honest. But I thought the whole point of a political forum is to rebut other contributor's points of view, if you don't like their "uninformed" opinions.