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Speaker 1: To another poll, a couple of them, actually the Taxpayer

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Speaker 1: Courier poll. We also got research from Horizon and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff just says we're not happy with the country

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Speaker 1: right now. Therefore we're not happy with the government. No kidding.

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Speaker 1: Things have not been good for a while now, no

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Speaker 1: matter who was in power, a correction was needed. Economically,

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Speaker 1: we swamped the nation with cash at the start of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic unnecessarily, we can now say with hindsight, and

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Speaker 1: then of course we paid the price. It's not be nice.

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Speaker 1: So the government is going to be on the back

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Speaker 1: foot no matter who they are. I actually think the

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Speaker 1: surprising thing about this poll is how well the coalition

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Speaker 1: support is holding up. Sure Luxon has his problem, Sure,

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Speaker 1: Seymour and Peters say the most triggering things, knowing that

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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of people who love it. But are

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Speaker 1: the opposition talking any sense at all? Are they acting

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Speaker 1: like they do any better? I went searching for policy

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Speaker 1: from labor. Chris Hipkins over the weekend played cage with

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Speaker 1: his party's positions. When asked about the capital gains tax,

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Speaker 1: he prevaricated and then talked cryptically about tax reforms. What

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Speaker 1: does this mean? Is that what you're voting for. That's

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Speaker 1: about all the policy talk I can wrestle up from Labor.

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Speaker 1: The Greens at the Boundary Party appear to still be

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Speaker 1: on holiday. So all this poll says is that our

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Speaker 1: blocks are evenly matched in tribal terms, and the trick

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Speaker 1: will be the swinging voters who vote, of course for

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Speaker 1: self interest, and they'll do that in eighteen months time,

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Speaker 1: So let's see what things are like in eighteen months time.

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Speaker 1: A poll at this time is like some small talk

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Speaker 1: at a party, but the party hasn't even started yet.

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