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Speaker 1: Like most things in life, there's nuanced and subtlety that's

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Speaker 1: lost along the way. Sir David Seymour is of a

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Speaker 1: personality that undoubtedly gets up the noses of some. He

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Speaker 1: might even bother the Prime Minister periodically, But as Landrover,

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Speaker 1: escapade is not a sackable offense. Neither is his letter

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Speaker 1: written not as a minister for Polkinghorn sackable either. And

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Speaker 1: even even if you wanted to combine them and throw

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Speaker 1: in the Principal's bill because he's agitated people with it,

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Speaker 1: he is still not in sackable territory, nor indeed anywhere close.

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Speaker 1: And here is the simple truth about MMP. Why do

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Speaker 1: we still report it like FPP and that they're all

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Speaker 1: in the same party. I mean, could the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: sack David Seymour from cabinet? I guess, But then what

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Speaker 1: would happen the end of the government. So is he

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Speaker 1: going to do that? No, he isn't. When companies take

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Speaker 1: over other companies, there's often a clean out of talent

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Speaker 1: when a new CEO arrives. Same thing applies the business

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Speaker 1: of running a country, though in an MMP environment is unique.

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Speaker 1: You don't merge or take over you coalesce. You are

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Speaker 1: individual entities who agree on a series of ideas and

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Speaker 1: a level of cooperation. It won't go perfectly. It might

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Speaker 1: even go swimmingly, because at no stage did you ever

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Speaker 1: merge into one. You always remained. In this case three,

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Speaker 1: when Chris Hipkins calls yet again for a sacking and

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Speaker 1: surely we're bored witless with that tactic by now, he

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Speaker 1: tells us that not since the eighties and LONGI in

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Speaker 1: Preble have we seen in fighting like this. He is,

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Speaker 1: of course wrong. He forgets Peters and Shipley and Peter's

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Speaker 1: and Bolger and Anderton and Clarke and Copu and Shipley

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Speaker 1: in the First New Zealand, First Type five. He forgets

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Speaker 1: a vast sway of our local and recent history. And

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Speaker 1: not just that, he forgets Prebble and Longey. We're in

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Speaker 1: the same party. Seymour and Luxen are not. In many respects.

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Speaker 1: We're lucky with this current lineup in a small country coalition.

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Speaker 1: Choice is limited in places like Spain and Germany recently,

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Speaker 1: when they've stretched the bounds of credibility in forming deals

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Speaker 1: that collapsed. This deal won't collapse the majority of the time.

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Speaker 1: There is cordiality, respect and productivity, but reportage doesn't appear

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Speaker 1: to feature those aspects. The great frustration I have with

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Speaker 1: the Hepkins approach and the coverage of this frippery is

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Speaker 1: this is a time of tremendous importance on serious matter.

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Speaker 1: This country is a mess and it's in desperate need

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Speaker 1: of addressing. The sideshow game increasingly looks from another age

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Speaker 1: and also childish. If Seymour or Peter's or Luxon gets

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Speaker 1: on the phone to the GG to dissolve arrangements, come

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Speaker 1: back to me, but stunts in a bit of personality,

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Speaker 1: back and forward as a day at the office, not

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Speaker 1: a lead story and certainly not a crisis. For more

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