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Speaker 1: Some simple observations on the COVID report Part two. One

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Speaker 1: it's cheaper than the British equivalent finished last week that

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Speaker 1: cost over half a billion. Two it says pretty much

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Speaker 1: what you thought it would. Three. I'm convinced it's a

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Speaker 1: waste of time because a pandemic response is about the

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Speaker 1: ideology and government of the day, not medical process. Four

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Speaker 1: Why do I say that? Read the report. It says

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Speaker 1: numerous times good advice was ignored. Five did the Labour

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Speaker 1: government broadly cock it up? Yes? Six badly? Yes. Seven.

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Speaker 1: The report says, at its heart people tried hard. They

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Speaker 1: wanted to do the right thing. Eight is that acceptable answer?

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Speaker 1: Sort of? But wanting to do well isn't the same

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Speaker 1: as actually doing well. Nine It's hard to work out

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Speaker 1: what's worse. The medical cockups are the financial ones. Ten.

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Speaker 1: Robinson and his economic vandalism came out of it, probably

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Speaker 1: as bad as Adirn in her megalomania. Eleven They were

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Speaker 1: too slow, I would argue, because they were lazy. They

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Speaker 1: sat in opposition for nine years, not expecting to get

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Speaker 1: to government. They weren't sharp already, So not only did

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Speaker 1: Winston hand them a lifeline, they got a pandemic to

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Speaker 1: boot they never stood a chance. They weren't match Fit

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Speaker 1: twelve as much our fault as anyone. A party that

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Speaker 1: gets about thirty percent support in any given MMP election

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty got fifty. Too many of us love

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Speaker 1: being told how to wipe our bums, and too many

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Speaker 1: of us were too lazy to think and work out

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Speaker 1: whether this was all Heading thirteen, the tide turned, and

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Speaker 1: given any response pandemic or war or just playing policy

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Speaker 1: is reliant on public goodwill. Once it did turn labor,

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Speaker 1: we're done for fourteen. The factor dourn can't live in

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Speaker 1: the country tells you very clearly how badly the tide

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Speaker 1: turned fifteen. I'm no more confident today we are any

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Speaker 1: more ready for a pandemic, although if we can take

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Speaker 1: anything from the report sixteen, it's the recommendation that public

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Speaker 1: debt needs to drop so we can be more ready

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Speaker 1: for an unpredictable world war anyone seventeen the reports, neither

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Speaker 1: of them were really needed. We are the experts. We

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Speaker 1: lived through it. Some of us still bear the scars.

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