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Speaker 1: Unhappy to report to you that it looks like some

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Speaker 1: of us want to play the old should luxe and

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Speaker 1: be rolled game. In the wake of the not so

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Speaker 1: great polls that came out yesterday, there is a column

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Speaker 1: by andre E Vants, who I am name checking because

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Speaker 1: she's good and credible and not just some junior reporter

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Speaker 1: with an opinion. In her column, she predicts that Luxin

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Speaker 1: is in trouble, that his caucus is getting impatient, that

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Speaker 1: speculation about his leadership has reached fever pitch, and that

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't improve, she is not sure that he's

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Speaker 1: going to be the one leading the National Party at

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Speaker 1: the election time at election this time next year. Now,

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Speaker 1: if this is really what National MPs are considering, they

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Speaker 1: should ditch that idea immediately because Luxein's is not their problem.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he is a problem, there's no debate that,

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Speaker 1: with personal popularity setting at about twenty percent, he is

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Speaker 1: a drag on the National Party. But he is not

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Speaker 1: their actual problem. Their actual problem is that the economy

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Speaker 1: is stuffed and that they haven't yet figured out what

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Speaker 1: to do to fix it, even though they've had eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: And it really doesn't matter who the leader is whether

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Speaker 1: it's Nikola or Chris Buship or Erica or Mark Mitchell

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Speaker 1: or Golden Balls, it doesn't matter. They still will not

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Speaker 1: have a plan for the economy. Now. If they're worried

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Speaker 1: about their polling right now, they should try playing the

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Speaker 1: game of musical leadership Leadership musical chairs and see what

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Speaker 1: happens to their polling then, because they're still not going

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Speaker 1: to have a plan for the economy. But then they'll

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Speaker 1: also have votes feeling like it's the shambles up the

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Speaker 1: top of the beehive and not sure what's going on there.

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Speaker 1: Yes they have a problem, Yes you can see it

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Speaker 1: in the polls, So fix it. Come up with a solution,

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Speaker 1: Come up with a credible plan for fixing the economy

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Speaker 1: now and into the future. That is where the NATS

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Speaker 1: should be directing their energy, not into undermining Chris Luxen.

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