Will Chris win?

        • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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          Labour have done a horrendous job. They deserve this. But it will Royaly fuck the poor.

          Not looking forward to the next 3 years.

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            Im just reminding myself that regardless of who is at the helm, things aren’t going to get better in the next 3 years. NZ has lacked decades of investment and so small that we are at the wim of Aus, Europe, China and US. National may give our country a bit of strength, but it won’t be stronger people and I doubt they will be looking ahead.

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              Rolling back environmental policies and landlord tax will be pretty bad for all of us. I don’t think strength is anything we require. Nobody is worried of an armed New Zealand.

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                Clarification - economic strength, (business) investment, population and tech. Soft power, not hard power, but saying that I’m in Defense studies and the asia-pacific region is having significant concerns with hard power and we have a massive EEZ. Moot point though, back to mine.

                Our country needs significant financial investment - we love this country but we are soo far behind in soo many ways. Labour has tried to offset things like cost of living, housing, health but there is soo much to do.

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                  Business in my opinion. My very very controversial opinion. Business is a cancer. It’s the worst thing to happen to humanity since money was invented.

                  Business looks to squeeze everything to profit the few. Maybe stop looking to greed and start getting the basics. Housing food security.

                  You can rape pillage and destroy the planet for profit. Won’t help.yhe majority though.

                  But that’s just my incorrect opinion

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          Thats disappointing as I don’t think national gives a shit at all. I suspect the tax cuts with the current cost of living got national through, but it does nothing to move the country ahead.

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            I suspect nothing about what National offered was what did it, other than the fact they were not Labour. I fully believe that the majority of people vote without knowing what policies they are voting for.

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              I found that too. Any political conversation I had this cycle were basically: “Winston for the shit stir” or “Lifelong (insert party) voter”. Nobody I spoke to really knew any policy.

              • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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                I’ve been mentioning the cool Act policies in passing to people I talk with. No one knew that they want to remove all building standards, repeal the act that sets our carbon reduction targets, or allow employers to call everyone contractors to get around employee protections and so they don’t have to pay annual/sick leave, etc. I’ll be watching the coalition negotiations with interest.

              • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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                Yup - “oh why vote for those losers” yet when I asked what they disagree with they have nothing. I feel like alot of nationals vote was “i want something different”, a tax cut or lifetime members.

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      Woo fucking hoo.

      Gotta love that for some reason a bunch of people have voted against their best interests. Think it’s time to reevaluate giving people decisions about their lives.

      It does not end well.

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        I disagree- they voted in their short term interest with tax cuts and blaming labour for the state of things. Our country is lacking soo much, and this was people just wanting something to take the edge off now.

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          Take the edge of in what way ? Pretty short sighted if a couple months helps but then national policies kick in and things get markable worse. But who knows aye

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            Oh, it is shortsighted. But people can’t think about the future if they are struggling now and it is something we all do. 2k tax cut gives me something now, 100,000 homes in 10 years I have to wait for.

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              Which is probably why we are in this situation. We don’t look to the future. Gotta start thinking big picture. Planets fucked. Need some drastic changes or this is humanities end.

              But I get yah

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                Im curious what way you voted - I didn’t vote any of the big 4 because their focus is the 3 year reelection (and act/green is effectively a lab/nat vote). Don’t need to answer, just speaking out loud and happy to see others are on the same page.

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                  Unfortunately I’m eligible to vote( resident not citizen) but I would vote green.

                  Labour or green are an attack on national. Only way to fight national is to push up labour.

                  Two party systems are a big issue.

              • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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                Labour - no. But pushing things in a direction can facilitate construction. I’ve been seeing huge number of subdivisions come in, rezoning and growth up but it takes time and the global situation has been kicking everyone’s ass and there is little any NZ govt can do about it.

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        I disagree, a lot of people seem to think having equal rights to any other NZer is in their best interests, and I think that’s a reasonable point of view.

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    Cool, we get to watch an national/act government tonight, a no vote in Australia overnight and a genocide tomorrow

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              This is what our generation does. It is what it is, we just got to get up and deal while hopefully making it easier for the next one… or at least one less fire for them to put out.

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                Fair enough, I respect that. I think what gets me is it doesn’t have to be this way but yeah, you gotta take it day by day.

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                  It doesn’t - but we bitch at the boomers for all they didn’t do and we should walk the talk. Make it harder for us to make it easier for the next.

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      Don’t forget the Polish elections tomorrow! It has all the drama of a modern election!

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    Wait for the special votes. Back in 1999 - The Greens won 7 extra seats from special votes alone.

    • A special voter
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    I hope NZ wins, but Chris has it in the bag. Unlike that prick Chris.

    Edit: not calling Hipkins a prick, but with the result it looks it.

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      Even in his electorate, he didn’t win with anywhere near the majority he has had previously. His stretch as PM has really hurt his popularity.

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        I think labour is reaping the consequences of protecting the country during covid. They did an amazing job and now its over the country forgot how much their choices did.

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          Pretty sure it’s all the other dropped balls they tried or barely tried to juggle.

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            Haven’t followed Hipkins too much, but I have believed Jacinda is a great person and empathic leader, but an average politician. Exactly what we needed in covid.

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          I think it’s more to do with the long list of failed policies outside of Covid measures, and the racist policies being proposed by Greens and TPM.

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              I’ve tried to find this policy online but I haven’t been able to. Would you be able to provide a link?

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                Sorry, had a look through and was incorrect (hence the question mark).

                • allocate 50% of police, court and corrections funding to Maori authorities.

                • allocate 50% of new state houses to Maori.

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                So do I - make no mistake Maori were repressed and disadvantaged, but you can’t throw a policy out and expect it all to change.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
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    It’s looking like Blue Chris will win, a disappointing result for Red Chris.

    Serious though, this is a huge shift from last election, almost a 25% drop. And it looks like Winnie will be out in the cold, thankfully.

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      It’s the least inspiring election I’ve ever seen. Literally had no idea who was the least worst option stepping into the booth

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      If you look at the cumulative votes graph, you’ll see there are a lot less voters this election. It makes me wonder what the shift would look like if everyone voted (or, what are the key demographics for people who don’t vote).

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          Greens have done surprisingly well so far though, although largely at Labour’s expense, it seems.

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                  It’s amazing actually, the number of comments I’ve seen online from supposed green party supporters saying they don’t like them having a race quota, don’t support other aspects of their policies etc, but will still vote for them, is incredible.

                  Having said that, they do have some solid policies.

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          Which is quite disappointing consider the massive investment the future requires. Uni, health, general education and environmental funding just aren’t there and we are the ones who will be affected.

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        At this point, I think he’ll be a politician until the day he dies, he’s got nothing else. I don’t see him retiring in the next three years.

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        This is his life. He loves it, he’ll die before he gives it up.

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    Wow it sucks that TOP didn’t do better; but what sucks even more is that NZ Loyal got 1.15%; the crazys were out in force this year.

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    Its seems like a lot of area seats were lost because left wing votes were split between labour and greens which allowed national to snag it.

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      I was about to try and point out that a party vote for greens is actually a party vote for a greens+labour coalition.

      Then realised that you’re referring to electorate votes.

      Derp.

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      Which would be making a bleak situation comically worse. The ol’ Kingmaker ends up wielding a lot more power than the 1-ish% influence the people meant for him to have.

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    So going on how things changed as voters were counted, it would appear that the early voting broke more for Nat / Act, and then the day of voting broke for Lab / G. NZF & TPM stayed relatively consistent throughout the night. This makes sense, blue-collar working people are somewhat more likely to vote Labour than National, and are less likely to have time to get to one of the fewer advance voting posts, than the typically white-collar / retired voters who are somewhat more likely to vote for the right.

    The vote totals have now tightened up considerably on whether National can form a government with just Act; such that I am interested to know how many overseas / special votes there might be, and if any of them have been counted yet. If there’s enough of them, and they tipped more Labour/Green than National then it might be enough to pull another vote from the right to the left, and given Parliament has an overhang this term Luxon would need to pick up the phone to someone to get an outright majority, at least on confidence & supply.

    Another big talking point for me is that one in every twenty voters this election has no representation in Parliament at all due to the threshold requirements for minor parties.

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    Have you guys at least imported the democracy sausage tradition from the West Island, yet? It was super sporadic the last election I asked.

    No matter the result, voting is never a total loss if you have at least had this.

    • master5o1@lemmy.nzOP
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      I’ve never been at a voting place with a sausage sizzle.

      Then again, I’ve always worked at a voting place (except this year because children).