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Firstly, my commiserations to Labourites. That's a hard result for Labour. Not so devastating for the left generally, well done to both Te Pāti Māori and the Greens on increasing the left vote. I've been seeing a few comments on twitter from across the political…
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The people have spoken. Every party except Labour and the small parties had a pretty good night. The Greens picked up three electorate seats although I suspect they will be disappointed their party vote was not higher. Te Pati Maori performed well in the electorate…
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Electoral Commission timing of results: Preliminary General Election results will be available here progressively from 7:00pm. Targets for release of the preliminary General Election results are: 10:00pm results from 50% of voting places 11:30pm results from 95% of voting places The Electoral Commission will publish…
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Last post before election day but the big mo is on. The latest Talbot Mills puts the left at 47% and the right at 49%. This is margin of error stuff and does not fully reflect what has happened over the last couple of days.…
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The rules about election day are pretty clear. This rule applies to websites and social media Don’t post anything to social media or a website on election day that could influence voters. Also make sure your profile pictures on social media don’t include anything that…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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It is very clear now why National did not agree to a further debate between the leaders. Last night's debate between Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luzon was totally one sided. I would have loved to have seen National's brains trust's faces as their candidate was…
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Two new polls were released last night and they both confirm a tightening of the race with the right slumping and the left improving. From Radio New Zealand: The latest opinion polls show the political left is making gains in the final stretch of the…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Craig Rennie of the CTU has continued his excellent work analysing National's proposed tax cuts and has come up with a doozie. Landlords who own multiple properties will get huge tax cuts if National's policy is put in place. https://twitter.com/CLRenney/status/1711632802259898806 According to Rennie's analysis: 2021…
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Three days ago I suggested that Labour was getting some momentum and that the feeling on the ground is that people are not trusting National and are incredulous at its policies that do not make sense. This morning the feeling was verified. From Charlotte Graham-McLay…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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I don’t want to talk about Saudi Arabia but it’s time. On Saturday, after the Hamas assault, the Saudi Foreign Ministry released a statement that did not explicitly denounce the Hamas attack on Israel and instead made it clear that the Saudi government had repeatedly…
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What has happened to the fine art of intelligent heckling? During this election campaign we have witnessed the interruption of political meetings by activists driven by conspiracy theories or out right bigotry who have scored their 15 seconds of TV coverage by screaming abuse or…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Living in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic was a troubling and sad time. As I wrote at the time, the Government's response in the UK was entirely inadequate and needlessly cost thousands of lives. By contrast, the response…
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It seems fitting that National's carefully choreographed and hugely resourced campaign of three years trying to make us all grumpy and vote for change should have crashed onto the rocks known as Winston Peters. It all started to go wrong when during the second leader's…
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