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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about this political poll. National as

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Speaker 1: behind Labor. Nationals on thirty two, Labours on thirty four. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is not the first time that National has fallen

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Speaker 1: behind Labor since the since the last election. The first

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Speaker 1: time it happened was November last year. Then it happened

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Speaker 1: again in January twice. Then it happened again in March twice.

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Speaker 1: Then it happened in May, then it happened twice in June,

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Speaker 1: and then it happened twice just in the last month.

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Speaker 1: Now it is becoming more and more frequent that this

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Speaker 1: is happening, and if you see it in its graph form,

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Speaker 1: it's actually quite arresting what's going on here. This is

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Speaker 1: not an aberration. This is a trend of National consistently

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Speaker 1: losing ground and Labour consistently making up ground. And this

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Speaker 1: has been happening since the election, but it really started

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Speaker 1: to gather steam at the start of this year. Now.

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Speaker 1: I do not think that Labor will win the next

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Speaker 1: election because I think their bedfellows in the Greens and

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Speaker 1: the Mardi Party are just way too nutty. I don't

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Speaker 1: think enough people will want to vote for Labor. But

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Speaker 1: National should be worried because these polls show that enough

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Speaker 1: voters don't want to vote for National either, because right

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Speaker 1: now they are foundly disappointing, aren't they. I mean, answer

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Speaker 1: me this question, what has this government done to help

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Speaker 1: the economy? Apart from the investment tax boost incentive in

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Speaker 1: the budget in mate, what have they actually done? I

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Speaker 1: feel like the answer is nothing. Yes, this economy was

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Speaker 1: shot when they took it over. It's not their fault,

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Speaker 1: but their election promise was to get it back on track.

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Speaker 1: But in order to get it back on track, you

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Speaker 1: actually have to do something, and they've done nothing. They're

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Speaker 1: spending more than grant, they're running deficits from here until

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Speaker 1: basically the end of their possible term, and they're making

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Speaker 1: announcements of things that they might want to do sometime

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Speaker 1: in the future, but they're not doing it just yet.

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Speaker 1: If there is a vibe in this country right now,

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Speaker 1: especially in places like Auckland and Wellington, it's a vibe

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Speaker 1: that I Reckon kicked in about five or six weeks ago, properly,

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Speaker 1: just after the halfway mark of this government's electoral term,

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Speaker 1: when people realized, you know what, we're halfway through and

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Speaker 1: they've done nothing. And this economy still sucks. And that

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Speaker 1: I think is what you're seeing in this poll, just

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Speaker 1: a lot of disappointment. For more from Hither to Do

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