Seachange goes the other way

National pulls well ahead in poll
National is now on is on 53%, a commanding lead over Labour on 35%. The Greens are back over the 5% threshold and Act has creeped back into the picture with 2%. The Maori Party is not really featuring in the party vote on 1.8% and New Zealand First is crumbling away under 2% support.

Ouch, the fall out from Winston has hurt Labour and bolstered National, but the TVNZ polls are always historically harsher on the left, the Morgan poll has the Greens on 8%, this one has them just over the threshold, but those biases aside it is a sobering reminder that the climb will be a hard slog, the next Poll should show if the trend is death for Labour.