Up the pole has various meanings including the literal, climbing on a pole, crazy and in difficulty.
Up the poll (Updates highlighted)
There's something amiss in the reporting of the latest Kantar Political Poll. 1News cites a statistic that does not appear in the Kantar report: How well or how poorly those polled thought the PM and Christopher Luxon did their joh. Where did 1News get its information? I wonder why is it not in Kantar's full report? Here are the results: