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Speaker 1: Is exercised, as some people have been this week about

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Speaker 1: social media, the Greens and their behavior. The bigger issue,

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Speaker 1: I thought, is not the Greens but Labour and all

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Speaker 1: who might support them into government. See as much as

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Speaker 1: we may froth and hyper ventilate about any given issue

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Speaker 1: on any given day or small fire storm, who runs

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Speaker 1: the country and how is what we all ultimately should

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Speaker 1: be focused on. Given we will not be going back

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Speaker 1: to a single large party ever again. Won because COVID

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Speaker 1: is not repeating, and even if it did, I doubt

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Speaker 1: we would panic again electorally the way we did. And two,

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Speaker 1: given Labour left their own devices literally destroyed the place,

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Speaker 1: most of us, for good or bad, have come to

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Speaker 1: the conclusion that a mix of parties under this MMP

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Speaker 1: system we seem to have voted for is accepted and

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Speaker 1: here to stay. So National need at least one player,

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Speaker 1: probably two, and the same applies to Labor now. For now,

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Speaker 1: National seems to have got lucky and or well organized.

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Speaker 1: When whether you're supported or not, broadly speaking, National act

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand first get along fine. Media tries to

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Speaker 1: stir up bits of trouble around mind and matters periodically,

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Speaker 1: and we yet to see. I guess a full blown

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Speaker 1: campaign post their first term, where the gloves might come

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Speaker 1: off you, punches might get thrown, but overall things accordial

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Speaker 1: and well managed. Labour, on the other hand, need certainly

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Speaker 1: the Greens, possibly the Marory Party. Both are increasingly ropey,

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Speaker 1: Both are increasingly belligerent, Both are increasingly fringe. Both are

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Speaker 1: an electoral nightmare for a so called mainstream left wing party.

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Speaker 1: The Greens of James shaw, Rod Donald and Jeanette fitz

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Speaker 1: Simon's they are long gone. The Marray Party of Peter

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Speaker 1: Sharpele's and Tarriana Turia long gone. Both the current Greens

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Speaker 1: and the Murray Party your anti establishment disruptors who revel

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Speaker 1: in a type of anarchy, almost as though they're outside

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Speaker 1: the system. All of which is fine if you like

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Speaker 1: that and want to vote for it, but it's completely

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Speaker 1: incompatible to running a country, even for a Labor party

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Speaker 1: that's become increasingly left leaning and socialist. If you don't

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Speaker 1: need or want to be in power, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think Arthur Greens will married party actually do. You can

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Speaker 1: say whatever you want, but Labour do want to be

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Speaker 1: in power, and their problem is they're going to end

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Speaker 1: up having to answer for an increasingly un hinge rabble,

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Speaker 1: or at least try to dress it up as something

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Speaker 1: they can handle. And that's their problem, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think they have the wherewithal to even come close to

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Speaker 1: pulling that particular truck off. For more from The Mic

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