No The dollars are real.
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No The dollars are real.
If you have a look back a few pages, I've already deconstructed the latest Colmar-Brunton poll. John Key is becoming less popular, and there are more voters sitting on the fence. They're not as sure about National anymore.
John Key said he's using his trusted lawyer for advice. Except he's deregistered himself, did so in February this year to set up Antipodes, a firm offering foreign trust advice.Quote:
There are a lot of people comparing what this government has done, compared with the Clark Government under Labour. Don't forget what it was like during that time, NZ started to come to an even keel, we started feeling like we were living in a great country again.
Here's the full data from Colmar Brunton, including historical trends.
http://colmarbrunton.co.nz/wp-conten...016-prelim.pdf
W69 is right, John Key is becoming less popular over time, and of the people who are quite likely or very likely to vote in the next election, 13% won't say which way they would vote at the moment, or are undecided. That's higher than usual. People are starting to think a bit, but they're not sure about Andrew Little yet.
Just over 1000 people on landlines were surveyed in this poll. So they are older households, perhaps more conservative. Lots of younger households don't have landlines, or are unlisted. The error in the party vote is about +/- 3.1% for 3D certainty for National, and about +/- 2.5% for Labour. The percentages are also rounded up or down with no decimal point, we're not told the actual data.
Let's take a Labour-positive view of the results. National could have had 49.6% of the party vote +/-3.1%, so worst case is 46.5%.
Labour in best case is 28.4% +2.5% or 30.9%. Add 13% unknown/undecided votes and Labour could achieve 43.9%, that is statistically a small possibility. Add Greens, and a Labour/Green coalition would have power in 2017.
This poll was completed before the news about the tax havens was well known. It certainly didn't include the effect of the multiple articles about NZ's need to do something about it, and John Key's inappropriate response.
http://thestandard.org.nz/johns-keys...-not-a-lawyer/
EZ - Labour losing any support they may have had from the younger people like whats happening in Australia
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...21-gobrv4.html
The National Govt adjusts for the Uber competition with Taxis, by simply relaxing the rules for both. This will end up doing some damage, surely. Of course the market wins, the public gets cheaper fares. But at what ultimate price?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU160...+22+April+2016
Taxis have been a joke for years. I have never lived in Auckland but I caught a taxi in Queen Street a couple of years ago and I had to direct the driver to a motel by Alexandra Park, Greenlane. English wasn't the drivers strongpoint.
They're all using ipads for directions now, apparently. From now on, taxis of all types don't have to display their rates. How would that work for you, if you were a tourist? Are we to be just like any overseas country, a cowboy's paradise?
More confirmation that I should ignore NZ Initiative emails to my inbox.
http://thestandard.org.nz/who-is-beh...nd-initiative/
They were so effective that the voters threw them out and show no sign of having their successors back. Cullen? I met him twice through a mutual friend and the short conversation, or his side of it left me quite stunned. Outside the local RSA The third party asked if he would like to go in, his reply was "no, just a bunch of old men drinking pints" The pair headed down the street to a cafe were the local lawyers had their coffee. The third party didn't get re-elected.