My first thought was “they can?”, then I saw “New polling from 1News-Verian shows a Green surge and the left bloc able to win government - presuming National refuses to work with the Opportunity Party.”

I love it. The media telling Luxon that his refusal to build bridges is going to cost him the election.

As bad as it sounds, I feel like it may be better for the objective of Opportunity if they end up siding with National. They can help limit the impact of Act, and they won’t get typecast as part of the Left.

@rimu Maybe more people are finally noticing their very intelligent tax proposal, the one where they point out it applies to over 10.5 million/year.

Couldn’t be. Way too reality-based.

Green has wildly better policies imo:

• wealth tax
• public transport
• free dental
• an actual commitment to the environment (the thing that makes NZ really special)

only thing they really seem to suck at is marketing themselves, though I do admit I prefer seeing less gauche billboards

Green are polling at more than half of what Labour are, and it looks like they would be less than half the seats in a coalition government, although still the biggest single party.

They just aren’t inspiring people, are they?