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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Rural Voter Concerns

5 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 31 May 2026

A rural elderly voter expresses loss of trust in the National Party following perceived policy failures, indicating a broader sense of political disillusionment.

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  • There's a lot of, well, you know, if you've done well, it's probably just luck and we're gonna whack you for it. Um if you haven't done well, we're gonna subsidize you till you start moving. I think at the end of the day, uh the difference between us and the Labour Party is that we actually do believe you get one shot in your time on earth and you've got to make the most of it. Uh similarly you should be responsible for your actions. The other directions. So you you know that's that's really the difference here. Um and so whatever, whoever their list is, whatever policies they eventually uh release, uh, we know that the net effect of a Labor government is that the harder you try, the more you get whacked. Uh they drain the joy from life, and that tends to hit rural New Zealand the hardest because if you're rural, uh you tend to take more risks, live by your wits in a bit of good or bad weather more than most.
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national party facing growing rural discontent

News Briefing: 14 June 2026
13 Jun

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