NZ Election 2026 will be a close call. Choosing between Labour's Proven Loser & National's Travelling Salesman.

What's Labour Leader Hipkins' record? Never-ending Auckland lock-downs that tore us apart; inflation; bureaucracy; suffocating red-tape. Education wrecker. Hipkins was PM when failed Reserve Bank Governor Orr was reappointed in 2023. He knows how to pick 'em. Never fear, Hipkins is making a come-back on the back of the talentless Labour's caucus. Its hard to find anyone to replace him. His cunning plan is to propose new (capital) taxes, probably sold as a "tax-neutral" redesign of our tax-system. Yet Hipkins said those same (capital) taxes were not the answer in his election campaign 18 months ago. His new plan will be the oldest in the book - use the politics of envy to drum up support for a raid on hard-working Kiwis who have built up savings & assets of their own. In the other corner, we have the current National Party PM. He rejected ACT's Treaty Principles Bill, but presented no alternative. The nation looked to him for a compromise deal that united us. There was none. He's now telling overseas investors NZ is the world's most politically stable nation, when no one can answer our most fundamental questions of nationhood - like do our rights & freedoms depend on ethnicity? Ask the PM for a "yes-no" answer to that question and you will get mumbo-jumbo. A large part of NZ's population believe our Parliament has no right to pass laws that apply to them. Elsewhere, the PM lost the Cook Islands to China. He's National Security & Intelligence Minister, but still has no clue what's going on there. Luxon is presiding over the deepest, longest period of economic stagnation experienced by NZ for thirty years (the Covid slump was briefer). He got back John Key's mate, Lester Levy, as Health Commissioner, and asked Key's other medical mate, Peter Gluckman, to provide answers for the health-care crisis. Both had none. Don't tell overseas investors - but NZ has never been more domestically politically unstable - with Kiwis living in a region of the world that has never been more geopolitically unstable. No wonder the polls are close.