Foxy,

Since last year's election Labour polling has been on a slow but steady decline. This is not a spike or a fluctuation and is a close reflection of the polls before the covid pandemic.

While showing empathy and dispensing hugs in the Christchurch and White Island incidents, Jacinda did nothing materially more than any other politician would have.

As for Labour's agenda, most of this is the far left socialism and woke politics that most people dislike, but with Labour's big win in 2020, they decided to press ahead with. While they anticipated burning political capital Labour they clearly never anticipated the rate at which this would happen. There are 20 odd months until the next election and Labour can't afford to piss off any more voters.

It doesn't help that most of her coalition green partners and ministers frequently have their feet in their mouths and are far from transparent.

shadowminister,

We'll have to wait and see which one of us is right
regarding Jacinda Ardern's poll ratings.
Personally I would not place all that much on polls.
They can change over night.

Moral standards in New Zealand have also fallen, their parliament having unanimously passed a bill allowing “trans people” to change their birth certificates to reflect who they”really” are.

Some Australian states have, too, apparently, but this is an entire country, the people the rest of the world see as New Zealanders. We have excuse of a ‘broken Federation’ and weird state premiers, as well as the plea that we are not “all like that”

Apathy can be normal but it can be an indicator of
underlying disease when feelings become excessive,
all-consuming, judgemental, and interfere with
daily living and rational thought processes.

In this troubled world of ours more empathy is
badly needed - especially in accepting others
for who they are - and having an open mind to our
unique differences. The next time you are around someone
who appears to be our polar opposite, challenge yourself
to get to know that person better.

New Zealanders having obviously taken that on board.

Foxy,

I wasn't making any predictions, merely stating the status quo based on several polls by reputable pollsters.

The strongest sign that Labour is seeing the writing on the wall is that in the last couple of days labour is starting to backpedal on some of their least popular policies.

SM,

The problem for New Zealanders who, like Australians, must have some sensible, responsible conservatives among them, is that the vote for the disgraceful 'change-your-birth certificate-to-suit-any old-sexual combination-that-you-fancy was passed UNANIMOUSLY by the NZ parliament, not just Ardern's ratbags. Again, like Australians, New Zealanders don't don't have much in the way of decent politicians to vote for. The leader of the opposition is probably not a lot different from Ardern. Our two party leaders are different only in degrees of stupidity. I'm not interested enough in NZ,to care, but I suspect the same applies there.