pn809. Covid Up, Labour Down. Misinformation and Fatigue Rule

Curia and Talbot Mills both released poll results last week.    Most of the results were not statistically significant but there has been a very definite trend downwards for Labour and Jacinda Ardern over the past three months. 

Curia is the right-wing poll run by National party activist David Farrar who also publishes Kiwiblog. The poll was for the Taxpayers' Union, another right-wing group.   Its results were a little less flattering to Labour than the less politically-bound Talbot Mills poll but both polls showed the similar trends: 

While Labour and Jacinda are still by far the most preferred, both were down on previous polls; National and Judith were up a little; ACT and David Seymour were indeterminate; the Greens were up a litle. 

pn807. The Sharp Increase in Misinformation and Disinformation on Covid: the threat to our social cohesion, freedom of expression, inclusion, and safety.

The 3000-odd protesters who blocked Wellington streets yesterday are but one sign of the spread of false information on Covid which has allowed a range of right-wing groups to attach their anti-Māori, anti-immigrant, pseudo-Christian,  anti-gay, anti-media and anti-Jacinda agenda banners to the anti-vaxx and so-called "freedom" movement.