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Speaker 1: Federated Farmers as part of Field Days have done the

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Speaker 1: most interesting survey. Now it's like all surveys, it's a snapshot,

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Speaker 1: but the numbers for one lot are so stark alarm

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Speaker 1: bell should be ringing. Now, who would a farmer vote for?

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Speaker 1: Do you think? Now? You'd say, oh, probably national, and

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Speaker 1: you'd be right. Broadly. The farming community is conservative, always

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Speaker 1: has been, and that is partly because they are their

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Speaker 1: own masters. They're hard workers, their self reliant, They're at

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Speaker 1: the cutting edge of the economy. They know how life works.

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Speaker 1: So national in this poll get fifty four percent. Act

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Speaker 1: get nineteen. Here is where it gets interesting and or alarming.

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Speaker 1: New Zealand first, get eight. Only party with farmers at

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Speaker 1: about the same level that they are nationally Labor three

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Speaker 1: ding ding ding, Ding, ding, ding ding ding. How bad

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Speaker 1: is that, even with a margin of era, even with

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Speaker 1: a massive margin of era. Labour should be shocked at

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Speaker 1: that figure. Every party, of course, has their sweet spot.

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Speaker 1: I mean some parties more overtly say so the Greens,

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Speaker 1: who would vote for the Greens, while the ants as

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Speaker 1: environmentalists or communists act serm up market urban liberals. A

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Speaker 1: New Zealand first, a provincial number might be higher than

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Speaker 1: a city number for New Zealand first, but labor national,

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Speaker 1: as major parties, should be by their very nature broad based.

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Speaker 1: After all, it is labor national and labor national alone

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Speaker 1: that will lead any given government on any given day.

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Speaker 1: You have to at least have a half decent level

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Speaker 1: of support, even in your weakest areas, don't you. Farming

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Speaker 1: is particularly important given where a farming nation, given the

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Speaker 1: foreign receipts we get from land, given the value of

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Speaker 1: our free trade deals. To have a major party so

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Speaker 1: out of touch with such a large sector strikes me

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Speaker 1: as being astonishing, if not embarrassing, if not in fact

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Speaker 1: unheard of. My suspicion is the current version of labor

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Speaker 1: is particularly unpalatable, and this is going to be their

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Speaker 1: major issue next year for all voters, in fact, not

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Speaker 1: just farmers. The damage done to this country is still

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Speaker 1: fresh in most of our minds, no more so than

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Speaker 1: farmers climate obsession, special land area designation three waters with

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Speaker 1: mari overreached, no gas, more paperwork. Farmers hated it, a

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Speaker 1: lot of us hated it. But in generals, of course,

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Speaker 1: labor is still competitive on the land. They seem according

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Speaker 1: to this to be Pariah's at three percent. Think about it.

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Speaker 1: That is a massive hill for Hipkins and Cold to

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Speaker 1: climb between now and October next year. For more from

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