New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has plunged to the lowest level since she entered Government, according to the latest polling, which puts opposition parties on course to win the next election, expected next year. The Telegraph has the story.
Tensions soared last week with the murder of a worker in a convenience store who was stabbed to death in a robbery.
Afterwards, the Prime Minister was criticised for making a visit to the remote Chatham Islands rather than visiting the victim’s grieving family.
New Zealand’s media, which had been largely supportive of Ms. Ardern during her first few years in office, now has the Prime Minister firmly in its sights – with the nation’s number one talk show host branding last week as “the Government’s worst”.
Broadcaster Mike Hosking said the Government was facing “an avalanche of bad news, upset, anger, protest and disbelief from one end of the country to another – and I haven’t even got to the recession yet”.
Some 29% of poll respondents said Ms Ardern was their preferred Prime Minister, a 1% drop.
Support for the Labour Party, which Ms Ardern leads, has also dropped 1% in the polls to 33%.
It is the Prime Minister’s lowest ranking since she became Labour leader in 2017.
The 1 News-Kantar poll reflects growing disillusionment among the electorate with New Zealand’s Labour Government, which has been plagued by the rising cost of living and an escalating crime rate.
According to the latest polling, the centre-Right National Party at 38% and the Act Party at 11% are now in a strong position to form a coalition government at the general election, due in the next 12 months.
Christopher Luxon, National Party leader, claimed the poll indicated that New Zealanders felt the country was “going in the wrong direction”, with some of the dissatisfaction stemming from the Government’s handling of the pandemic and the draconian measures it imposed to ‘contain’ COVID-19.
An official inquiry into New Zealand’s strategy will be launched early next year, and will investigate the Government’s strict lockdowns and border quarantine rules, which effectively isolated New Zealand from the rest of the world.
Looks like the toothy tyrant is headed for a fall.
Worth reading in full.
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I wonder who the WEF have lined up to take over from Ardern. Is this Luxon chap a ‘young globalist leader’ by any chance?
And a tidy WEF sinecure for horse face so she won’t care anyway.
From what I read he is a solid right of centre type guy with views to match. Businessman and CEO of Air New Zealand. It looks like a coalition is the most likely possibility. No info on potential partners in power. You know how bad junior partners are for corrupting the plan.
Thanks for that.
The National Party is a typical centre-right managerialist party used to being a party of government and lacking a clear philosophy. The ACT Party is a classical liberal party with a strong commitment to individual freedom and limitations on the size and scope of the state. The best plausible outcome would be a coalition between the two with ACT in a strong position and able to prevent National drifting leftwards in government, as it usually does. There is much work to do to restore a strong economy and democratic governance based upon the equal civic status of all citizens rather than the privileged civic status for the Maori minority introduced by Ardern.
Neigh, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Perhaps it’ll give her something to chew on over Christmas.
It doesn’t matter, it’s all a charade anyway.
Yes her popularity is tanking but not because of the jibby jabs unfortunately!
Long live the fallen idols
All moths into the flame
You’re chasing your own shadows
Are you not entertained?
— Five Finger Death Punch
The old nag’s job is done. She’ll be amply rewarded for her efforts in some shape or form. Do they have honours systems or such like in NZ?
The only system she should be in is that of a prison, alongside her multinational worldwide WEF colleagues.
Yup. Just look how Mary Robinson’s career worked out after a spell as Irish President. I bet she isn’t too anxious about paying her electricity bill.
I’ll wait and see…
The first thing is to never underestimate the stupidity of the voting public…(i.e re-election of ‘Dictator’ Dan Andrews’)
And second, are we supposed to trust the system any more?…Aren’t all elections decided before hand these days?….It’s hard to explain the re-election of so many despised ‘leaders’ throughout the West otherwise….