Ask Me Anything about the week to Sept 8
Paying subscribers can ask Bernard Hickey about the week’s news, including National’s plan to dump the ‘ute’ tax
It’s that time of the week for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session for paying subscribers about the week that was for an hour, including:
Doubts about National’s tax plans;
Next week’s PREFU; and
Labour’s poor results in recent polls, which also show NZ First holding the balance of power.
Fill yer boots
Cheers
Bernard
Hi Bernard,
I have a lot of questions today so apologies in advance.
First of all, what value do polls add to our democratic system?
I am not against parties doing them to see if they capturing the voice of the public, but I am against the public reporting of poll results.
From my perspective they only encourage speculative reporting and strategic voting, instead of people just voting for whatever party best represents them as an individual, which is the whole point of proportional representation (i.e. MMP).
I'm just here to say I love the Owl photo. It makes me laugh every time I see it :-)