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Speaker 1: I've been wondering when the penny would drop, and yesterday

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Speaker 1: just might have been at two stories, no less, two

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Speaker 1: stories just yesterday on Chris Hopkins's problems with the Maori Party.

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Speaker 1: You see, for all the energy the media wants to

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Speaker 1: put into Christopher Luxen and his future, the very obvious

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Speaker 1: other side of the coin, if they ever wanted to

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Speaker 1: explore it, lies in the very real issue for Labour

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Speaker 1: in the even coming close to putting together the numbers

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Speaker 1: to form a government. Now, the genesis of the coverage

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Speaker 1: came out of the fairest posts on all the Asians

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Speaker 1: and the Blacks and the other races to byerly managed

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Speaker 1: to pedal in the lead up to last Saturdays to

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Speaker 1: barkle up a by election. The Maori Party had to apologize,

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Speaker 1: and obviously Hepkins had to face the growing reality. But

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Speaker 1: these folks are crazies and not remotely interested in being helpful,

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Speaker 1: useful or part of a coalition. Why this hasn't occurred

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Speaker 1: to more in the media before now, I've got no

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Speaker 1: idea other than to offer the suggestion it may just

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Speaker 1: be a bit inconvenient for them and their agendas and

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Speaker 1: it's far easier to help build on the so called

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Speaker 1: demise of the Prime Minister. But yesterday we got there

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Speaker 1: at last simple questions, how does Labor even begin to

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Speaker 1: form a deal with the Marray Party? And this is

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Speaker 1: one for the coverage of the polls as well. See

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Speaker 1: you will note in polls and the way they're presented,

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Speaker 1: they're presented as a simple center left, center right number

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Speaker 1: collection right, a collection of parties added up, and the

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Speaker 1: headline is formed from the result of the maths. And

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Speaker 1: this week's curiopole, for example, there was to be apparently

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Speaker 1: a change of government, but it involves each time the assumption,

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Speaker 1: and what an assumption it is that Labor and the

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Speaker 1: Greens in the Maory Party are one group and no

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Speaker 1: such thing has ever happened. And let me make this

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Speaker 1: prediction for you right now this morning. It never will.

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Speaker 1: So add the numbers of likely groupings and you are

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Speaker 1: left with Labor and maybe the Greens. Do they get

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Speaker 1: to government? No they don't. So Hipkins, given it's his issue,

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Speaker 1: not the Marray parties, has to answer the very simple

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Speaker 1: question will you work with the Marray Party? And if so, how,

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Speaker 1: what jobs do they get? What policies are theirs? Are

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Speaker 1: you implementing and given he can't answer that, and dare

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Speaker 1: I suggest won't, he needs to grow as party support

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Speaker 1: to about forty percent, which he can't and you won't either,

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Speaker 1: which is why he's not winning the election next year.

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