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Speaker 1: Yesterday was MMP in action. It was exhibit a of

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Speaker 1: a coalition government without a single party with a clear mandate,

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Speaker 1: you end up with piecemeal positions. You get a report done,

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Speaker 1: then your cherry pick which options are palatable to everybody

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Speaker 1: and effective for nobody. In this case, they picked just

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Speaker 1: two of the ten options in the report, which they

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Speaker 1: ordered two. Imagine ordering a pizza and eating two slices.

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Speaker 1: Waste of money. Seewar would have liked, of course, the

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Speaker 1: option of flogging off the fifty one percent of the

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Speaker 1: energy companies that we do own. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: Martua Shane wanted to buy the rest back. It's what

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Speaker 1: we call a political halfway house. Critics on this side

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Speaker 1: say we needed more intervention. Critics on that side say

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Speaker 1: we need less. What we voters need to decide is

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Speaker 1: whether this country needs bold action or incrementalism. Do we

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Speaker 1: need radical or do we want compromise. In twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: Jacinda Adjourns scored the first single party majority since nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three, first under MMP and then burn the reputation

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Speaker 1: of absolute power. Basically, let's be real, nobody's going to

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Speaker 1: give national carte blanche come twenty twenty six. So if

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Speaker 1: the polls and the moods of the board rooms and

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Speaker 1: the talk on the streets actually reflect reality, then we

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Speaker 1: need to decide which side we want national pull towards

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Speaker 1: economic nationalism in New Zealand first, or free market libertarianism

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Speaker 1: and act. And until then we'll get more reports firing

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Speaker 1: out blank recommendations, more decisions that appease everyone but fix nothing.

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Speaker 1: This decision basically went down like any three way messy,

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Speaker 1: hard work took ages, and no one really leaves completely satisfied.

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