Election 2020: Judith Collins says freshwater regulations will be 'gone by lunchtime' and Government is 'destroying this country'

It will certainly slow the current loss of rural voters. The main reason Labour historically struggles to get rural voters is that they are hard on farmers. However they had taken a break from going after farmers due to the death of tourism.

Also generally I would say that the Green's biggest weakest is their approach never really incentivises better farming practises. The strategy is normally a blanket tax which encourages more cost cutting to stay in business or regulations that just equal a bunch more paperwork. There is no talk of encouraging practises that build up topsoil (trapping CO2) or tube wrapping (uses half the plastic per bale).

/r/newzealand Thread Parent Link - stuff.co.nz