As the article rightly points out, local polling (especially when party-affiliated) should be treated with skepticism. That said, it's useful for sense checking our electorate modelling. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Rustie
@rustie.bsky.social
Sewer socialist technocrat. Infrastructure. Psephology. Shitposting. Long-suffering Blues fan. 🏳️🌈 but bad at it. He/him. Not a pigeon. Pōneke/Wellington, Ao/NZ
With the ferry names, Peters is operating on the assumption that everyone still has Woke 1.0 installed.
Captain Cook might have spent six months in a leaky boat, but thanks to the Interislander delays we'll be spending six years in a leaky boat (and lucky just to keep afloat).
Wellington treated the NZIFF ticket website like it's the Gävle Goat.
I remember someone (possibly Cameron Bagerie?) describing this governments unifying them as a series of grumbles muttered into pints at the 19th hole. Recent hiring decisions bearing this out.
Countdown to Labor announcing Mikey Havoc because Hipkins thinks he'll appeal to young people
Is it too late for someone to parachute Pam Corkery onto their list? If we're digging around in the ashtray for 1990s retreads can we at least pull out one of the funnier ones?
Labour's problem is that their leader is yesterday's man. Fortunately their opponent is an ever-growing katamari of yesteryear's men.
Other fun thing is that Graham debased himself completely for Trump, and yet Trump will still care more about Shinzo Abe dying.
Switzerland pulling up to the kickoff with IMF bailiffs in their front three and dragging Messi to the pawn shop.
The critique of the fare cap costings vs the blank acceptance of the RONS policies brought to mind this quote:
Mark@maetl.bsky.social · 2mo agoEconomists love to talk about opportunity costs when it suits their ideological position. Would be great to hear more about the opportunity costs of funding megaprojects with < 1 BCRs and the alternative infrastructure pathways we close off as a result.
Between things like InfraCom's National Infrastructure Plan, the Climate Commission's emissions and adaptation plans, ComCom's market studies, and MinReg's regulatory reviews we seem to have created an entire parallel public service whose job is to tell the main one what to do?
Driving 2km/h over the speed limit on the expressway might be the most relatable thing a Green MP has ever done.
Toussaint L'Ouverture looking down and seeing Haiti demolish something called the All Whites and smiling.
Welcome to Wrath Month. We have no rainbows and glitter and sideshows for your heterosexual children and drunk girlies in pink cowboy hats to enjoy. We just have the truth of the slide into fascism and who they came for first
"80% of analysis is data hygiene", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corncob.
My neighbor told me Winston Peters keeps eating his former Labour MPs. So I asked how many MPs he has and he said he just goes to the Koru Lounge and gets a new MP afterwards. So I said it sounds like he’s just feeding political hasbeens to Winston Peters and then his deputy started crying.
