Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Ryan Bridge: The issues we care about

Transcript

Ryan Bridge: The issues we care about · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We have a new issues poll out this morning tells
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: you what the issues are people actually care about. It's
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: from IPSOS thousand people taken after White Thing and weekends.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: It's for February. The numbers are bad for National because
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: they should be winning on more of the issues, but
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Luxon won't hate them because they're going in the right
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: direction on a few of the key ones. Significant increase
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: that their words not mine. Significant increase on the cost
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: of living for National after a period of trending in
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: the wrong direction. Another significant increase on healthcare and hospitals
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: for National, closing the gap from nineteen to twelve points
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: since October, with Labour so still behind but catching up,
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: and after being overtaken on the economy, they've come back
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: to basically draw with the reds. Interestingly, concern from voters
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: about poverty and inequality is trending down despite the big
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: push in the media last week. What's that about the
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: reality is that Labour is still ahead though on three
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: of the five issues. Nationally head on one and they
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: are dead even on another. But no election, as you know,
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: is one or lost on a single issue. Is that
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: although COVID and twenty twenty and cost of Living in
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three were dominant. What the election will come
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: down to, As I've always said, and everyone is always
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: known as Winston Peters, now he has told me, he
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: has told us that he will not form a government
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: with Labour if one Hapkins is in charge and two
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: it needs propping up by the greensl to Party Mardi,
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: he says they're nuts. So as long as the polls
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: stay roughly where they are, the National Party strategists will
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: be sticking largely to the same script and the same
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: game plan as we just heard from Nichola Willis a
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: few moments ago, and wait at the altar for Winston, barring,
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: of course, any campaigns snaffoos that might get any of
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: the above into trumble and offside with us the voters.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: to News Talks it be from five am weekdays, or
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.