Saturday, July 08, 2006

Working For Families kicks in

TV3 News shows latest poll results - Labour well up and National well down.

There has been plenty running against the government but, to use a hackneyed phrase, "at the end of the day" many people have substantially more money in their pockets thanks to Working For Families. Labour bought the last election and are on their way to buying the next.

Never mind any long term strategy for the country; global competitiveness; lifting productivity; breaking intergenerational dysfunctionality. It's all about mediocrity or worse.

Yes. I am glum about it. Should have kept watching my John Farnham (John who?) concert instead of switching over to the news. It was going down very well with a glass of bubbly.

(Question for DPF if you read this - I don't have your e-mail address - is there seasonal variation in polls?)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It has been said, by who?, "Democracy will last just long enough for 51% of the population to figure out how to screw the other 49%".

But don't dispair DPF an Murray linked a poll showing National well ahead.

Who is right? Probably neither, polls are notoriously inaccurate.

Remember Jim Bolger's famous quote "Bugger the polls" when he lost an election despite all the pre-election polls suggested National was cruising to a victory.

Polls just exist to make a story for the media on slow news days. Chicken entrails would do just as well.

Anonymous said...

Put on The Main Event

(some of us know)

Anonymous said...

Maybe the latest Roy
Morgan poll
will cheer you up.

KG said...

The article I treadabout the poll in Stuff "news" was no more than another attempt to tak up Labour and suggest Brash's leadership is under threat.
Blatant partisan hacks.

KG said...

"treadabout"?? I need more coffee.

David Farrar said...

Not really seasonal variation except over summer when incumbent Govts tend to do well with no Parliament sitting, and people generally tuned out of politics.