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1 News Colmar Brunton poll September 16-19
National 46% (+6)Labour 37% (-7)Green 8% (+1)NZ First 5% (-1)TOP 2% (NC)Maori Party 1% (NC)ACT 0.3% Don’t know 7%Refused 6%
Preferred Prime Minister
English 37% (+5)Ardern 31% (-3)Peters 6% (+1) #
The poll had a sample size of 1006 eligible voters who were interviewed between September 16-19.
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We, those who still care about the viability of the earth and the future of humanity, have to look deeper than boilerplate thinking on the left.
Both the law and the Cabinet Manual are silent on how to deal with the situation of a Prime Minister who, for whatever reason, becomes incapable of performing their duties, and who will not stand aside. The underlying assumption is that in such situations, which are extremely rare, common sense and good judgement will prevail and that the person will come to the “right” decision and stand down.
A high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money is the deployment of NZDF personnel to support the US-led coalition in the Red Sea.
These values place commerce and money as well as US strategic military interests over the wellbeing, and the very existence, of ordinary, and especially foreign, people.
New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need: gambling we can keep the strength and security of our trading relationship with China whilst leaping into the US anti-China military alliance.
This potential all-out conflict is Gramsci’s Interregnum – the old’s final fight for relevance, and the lack of powerful new forces that could serve as alternatives. This is also known as the ‘age of monsters’.