Heather Duplessy-Allen
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But it's not a concern for opportunity at this stage.
It might not matter if they can keep polling this high.
Now, I reckon what's going on here is they are benefiting from the same thing that New Zealand First is benefiting from at the moment, which is voter frustration.
Same with Pauline Hansel, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump.
Voters are so frustrated by regular politicians ignoring them and their concerns for decades now that they just want to blow things up.
They'll vote for whoever they think is going to blow it up.
Break up the supermarket duopoly, break up the gen tailors, buy back BNZ, stop the immigration, whatever the idea.
Doesn't matter how kooky, it's interesting now.
For voters on the right, New Zealand First is their blow it up party.
For voters on the left, their blow it up party is Opportunity.
Because Opportunity is the party for voters who are frustrated by Labour, who never do anything, never brave enough to do anything.
and voters who are frustrated by the Greens who are just too weird really to be taken seriously.
Opportunity is a radical left-wing party with a land tax and a UBI fronted by a nice lady from Auckland.
Now, if they can play this right, if that polling can hold up close to 5%, 2026 might just, to coin a phrase on this show, be their year.
News of the world in 90 seconds.
Protests have erupted in the UK near the site where the teenager Henry Novak was stabbed and killed.
Two people were arrested, 11 police officers and a police dog were injured and Starmer has called for calm.
The attacks directed towards police officers in Southampton last night were disgraceful and completely unacceptable.
This is a time for serious work, not rage.
Nigel Farage, though, isn't one to waste an opportunity.