Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Should National be worried about these poll numbers?

Let's talk about this political poll.

National is behind Labour. National's on 32, Labour's on 34.

Now, this is not the first time that National has fallen behind Labour since the last election. The first time it happened was November last year. Then it happened again in January, twice. Then it happened again in March, twice.

Then it happened in May, then it happened twice in June, and then it happened twice just in the last month.

Now, it is becoming more and more frequent that this is happening. And if you see it in its graph form, it's actually quite arresting, what's going on here.

This is not an aberration, this is a trend of National consistently losing ground and Labour consistently making up ground. This has been happening since the election, but it really started to gather steam at the start of this year.

Now, I do not think that Labour will win the next election because I think their bedfellows and the Greens and the Māori Party are just way too nutty.

I don't think enough people will want to vote for Labour, but National should be worried because these polls show that enough voters don't want to vote for National either, because right now, they are profoundly disappointing, aren't they?

I mean, answer me this question - what has this Government done to help the economy? Apart from the investment tax boost incentive in the budget in May, what have they actually done?

I feel like the answer is nothing. Yes, this economy was shot when they took it over, it's not their fault, but their election promise was to get it back on track.

But in order to get it back on track, you actually have to do something, and they've done nothing. They're spending more than Grant, they're running deficits from here until basically the end of their possible term, and they're making announcements of things they might want to do sometime in the future, but they're not doing it just yet.

If there is a vibe in this country right now, especially in places like Auckland and Wellington, it's a vibe that I reckon kicked in about 5 or 6 weeks ago properly, just after the halfway mark of this Government's electoral term, when people realized - you know what? We're halfway through and they've done nothing, and this economy still sucks.

And that, I think, is what you're seeing in this poll, just a lot of disappointment.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, so let's talk about this political poll. National as
behind Labor. Nationals on thirty two, Labours on thirty four. Now,
this is not the first time that National has fallen
behind Labor since the since the last election. The first
time it happened was November last year. Then it happened
again in January twice. Then it happened again in March twice.
Then it happened in May, then it happened twice in June,

(00:21):
and then it happened twice just in the last month.
Now it is becoming more and more frequent that this
is happening, and if you see it in its graph form,
it's actually quite arresting what's going on here. This is
not an aberration. This is a trend of National consistently
losing ground and Labour consistently making up ground. And this
has been happening since the election, but it really started
to gather steam at the start of this year. Now.

(00:43):
I do not think that Labor will win the next
election because I think their bedfellows in the Greens and
the Mardi Party are just way too nutty. I don't
think enough people will want to vote for Labor. But
National should be worried because these polls show that enough
voters don't want to vote for National either, because right
now they are foundly disappointing, aren't they. I mean, answer
me this question, what has this government done to help

(01:06):
the economy? Apart from the investment tax boost incentive in
the budget in mate, what have they actually done? I
feel like the answer is nothing. Yes, this economy was
shot when they took it over. It's not their fault,
but their election promise was to get it back on track.
But in order to get it back on track, you
actually have to do something, and they've done nothing. They're
spending more than grant, they're running deficits from here until

(01:27):
basically the end of their possible term, and they're making
announcements of things that they might want to do sometime
in the future, but they're not doing it just yet.
If there is a vibe in this country right now,
especially in places like Auckland and Wellington, it's a vibe
that I Reckon kicked in about five or six weeks ago, properly,
just after the halfway mark of this government's electoral term,
when people realized, you know what, we're halfway through and

(01:50):
they've done nothing. And this economy still sucks. And that
I think is what you're seeing in this poll, just
a lot of disappointment. For more from Hither to Do
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