Simon Bridges is continuing to fail to win the public’s confidence, despite National being the country’s most popular political party, according to the latest One News Colmar Brunton poll.
While National MP Judith Collins remained neck-and-neck with Bridges in the preferred prime minister ranks, outgoing Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon made an appearance in the poll, conducted between July 20 and 24.
One percent of those surveyed named Luxon their preferred prime minister.
This was despite the open-ended survey question not providing names. Luxon will also remain with Air New Zealand until September 25, and while strongly hinting at it, has not officially announced he will run for National.
Support for Bridges was up 1% from the last poll conducted in early June, to 6%. Meanwhile support for Collins remained at 6%.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s popularity fell 4% to 41%. Meanwhile support for Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters as a preferred prime minister more than halved to 2%.
National came in ahead of Labour at 45% versus 43%.
Both parties scored an additional percentage point at the expense of New Zealand First, which was down 2% to 3%.
Support for the Green Party was stable at 6%.
Labour and the Greens would have enough seats to govern without New Zealand First.
Support from ACT wouldn’t be enough to get National across the line.
The poll saw 1003 eligible voters surveyed via landline and mobile phone. The maximum sampling error is about ±3.1%-points at the 95% confidence level.
Here is a summary of the results:
Preferred party:
National Party: 45% (+1%)
Labour Party: 43% (+1%)
Green Party: 6% (Steady)
New Zealand First: 3% (-2%)
Māori Party: 1% (+1%)
ACT: 1% (Steady)
New Conservative: 1% (Steady)
Don't know (11%) or refused to answer (3%).
Seats in Parliament:
National Party: 57
Labour Party: 55
Green Party: 7
ACT Party: 1 (assuming it wins one electorate seat)
TOTAL 120
Preferred prime minister:
Jacinda Ardern: 41% (-4%)
Judith Collins: 6% (Steady)
Simon Bridges: 6% (+1%)
Winston Peters: 2% (-3%)
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If both the Greens and Winston First are below 5% (which looks a real possibility), it becomes essentially a two way fight between Lab and Nat.
The votes for all other parties would be wasted, and this means that the next Government could be elected with around 45%.
Interesting that more people want Labour to govern than Jacinda to be PM. Given she is the only reason they are in government, it is a bit surprising. It isn’t if they put any thought into developing any policy while they were in opposition. KiwiBuild is a great example of that.
Interesting on Q&A on TV 1.
When Sue Bradford is totally pissed off with the coalition government, you know this government is not performing.
Mathew Hooten also stated that the government was hopeless and Ardern incompetent, which anyone with any sense can see.
“The Man did state that it will be the most despised government of all time and it is happening.
How is Ardern going to handle this Land thing?
Probably terribly, she needs to be strong but as we know she is as weak as anything.
. . they spent the 9 years in opposition waging a continuous war within themselves.... every man and his dog wanted a chance to lead the party ... the politics of divisiveness and back stabbing were the stuff of legends ...
They never had the time nor the inclination to develop some policies...
...and why bother anyway ... we all knew that the Jolly Kid was gonna lead the Gnats to a fourth election win ..
Not sure about that one either Rick. I recall a piece about how when Norris arrived at AirNZ he surveyed the entire upper management. Out of that he observed that every response he received was about flying aeroplanes, not one about flying passengers. And to be fair he did improve things resultantly. However I would suggest that his successors have reverted to the old school and not taken long to do so.
Having just endured Air NZ for a couple of long flights I wouldn't put much credence in his capability to run a country.. the product quality has dropped massively in the last couple of years. I was a fan of Air NZ but will take my substantial annual travel spend elsewhere from now on... appalling service that reeks of cost cutting and stripping the value from the product.
Immediate return to shareholder is great but not if you're going to lose a long term customer in the process...
mvgsmf. Totally agree. Apart from domestic, where Jet Star is even worse, I would go to great lengths to avoid any AirNZ flight. It would seem to me that, not all but far too many, of the staff at all levels and functions, consider it would be a great job, if it wasn’t for the passengers.
Yeah I couldn't believe the difference from 2 years ago.
Both similar length trips to SE Asia in premium cabin...first trip was great - this time not an FA to be seen after meal services, "kitchen closed" on the seat order system, no water refresh in 9 hours unless you paged an FA. I've had better service in Emirates Economy class for a whole lot less $$$ and Emirates / Cathay's / Qatar / Singapore airlines Business class smokes Air NZ's offering for less $$$...
Wow imagine if Luxon was PM it would be curtains for Labour. The only question I have is WHEN. The next election is to close ? will he just join the National party and then wait for Bridges to fall on his sword ? support for both Bridges and Collins is so low you can write them both off. All national need is a decent leader, they already have the party vote, which will only increase with the right leader and Luxon is clearly it.
Coalition's expanded army of spindoctors tried and failed to influence Colmar brunton poll - they spent last week when they knew CB was polling pushing dubious internal UMR polling results that had National in 30's, and running anti Bridges attack ads (Greens) and other anti-National hit pieces in an attempt to sway the results. Yet even so CB poll sees them languishing behind National. They've done this frequently in past - notably pre-election and during Little's tenure.
I wonder how many comments there would be here, if the Party schills were deleted?
The joke is that 'business skills' are not what is needed. Neither is economic training. We are beginning the peak/fall process that was inevitable, pushing physical growth on a finite planet. The fact has not gone away, the collapse is getting ever nearer.
As t who is a better leader for the coming phase, I'd have to go back to Jeanette Fitzsimmons. Nobody since has shown her understanding of the problem. Davidson is a wasted space, in comparison. And Parker still thinks you can have growth within environmental limits, so he's out. Would Luxton have the strategic skills? Maybe - but we'll never find out because we don't have a journalist who 'gets' the Limits to Growth. Or at least, one allowed to be published....
Hey Powerdown, nobody wants to hear about a finite planet, thats just all bad news and will scare the punters. There isn't a politician in the world thats going to attempt to bring in the measures required to keep this planet going as we know it. Massive population control is required. The only reason we are seeing the current climate change problems is population. Halve the population and problem solved, double the current population and we are doomed. The policies required cannot be implemented because they are to unpopular. My advice, Just enjoy the planet while it lasts, suggesting anything else to solve the problem is just banging your head against a brick wall.
Yup, nice one kiwis, good to see you learned from the last decade of voting for a white male corporate CEO who stands for profit before people...how many more ways to make people impoverished do you think Luxton could introduce? My bet would be a terrifying amount!
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