Labour’s Rural Collapse: A Nation Built on the Land Has Shut Its Gate

Federated Farmers survey reveals more than discontent. It exposes a political party increasingly irrelevant outside the echo chambers of Wellington and Ponsonby

The latest Federated Farmers survey, released as part of the Fieldays event, ought to be sounding alarm bells from Auckland to Wellington. Yet one suspects the Labour Party is too busy listening to its own echo chamber to notice.