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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I can't blame you if your assessment of

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Speaker 1: Parliament today is that it's become a circus, because what

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Speaker 1: happened today is kind of hard to defend or we

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Speaker 1: even explain. Chloe was kicked out. Brownly suspended her for

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Speaker 1: a week. All of the government parties voted for that punishment,

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Speaker 1: and that includes New Zealand first before Winston Peters then

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Speaker 1: got up to tell Jerry Brownly that the punishment wasn't fair,

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Speaker 1: even though he just voted for the punishment, and then

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Speaker 1: Debbie got up and said the C word again. Now

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Speaker 1: Chloe did actually break the rules. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: another one of those seemingly arbitrary or hard to explain

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Speaker 1: rules in Parliament that MPs can't accuse each other of

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Speaker 1: being cowards. Nick Smith did it in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 1: He accused MPs of not across the House of not

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Speaker 1: having the spine to debate a vote. He withdrew and apologized.

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Speaker 1: Steve Chadwick did it in two thousand and seven. She

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Speaker 1: accused the Opposition of being absolutely gutless and spineless. She

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Speaker 1: withdrew and apologized. John Key did it in twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: quite famously when he yelled at Labor to get some

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Speaker 1: guts over the war, but he got away with it

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Speaker 1: and actually probably shouldn't have. So Chloe did break the rules.

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Speaker 1: But then Debbie got up and said the sea word

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Speaker 1: and she didn't break the rules. So explain that. How

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Speaker 1: is accusing other MPs of being spineless worse than dropping

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Speaker 1: the sea bomb in the House of Representatives. I mean,

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Speaker 1: sure one is aimed at someone, the other one is

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Speaker 1: just a swear word that's been dropped. But when you

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Speaker 1: get into explaining that level of nuance on offensiveness, I

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Speaker 1: think you've lost the audience. Plus, why is Jerry Brownly

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden the tough cop. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is the guy who was wringing his hands over the

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Speaker 1: Maldi Party getting kicked out of Parliament for three weeks

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Speaker 1: for the hucker in David Seymour's face and for refusing

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Speaker 1: to turn up to the Privileges Committee, and for then

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Speaker 1: leaking the recommended punishment from the Privileges Committee. But when

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Speaker 1: Chloe says basically the same thing that John Key once

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Speaker 1: said without punishment, Jerry comes down on her like a

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Speaker 1: ton of bricks. Frankly, none of this makes sense anymore.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it does on a level of detail and minutia, sure,

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Speaker 1: but explaining it to a normal person no sense whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: But guess who's loving this. Chloe's loving this because Chloe's

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Speaker 1: learned from Tapatsimhardi and the Hucker that there's one sure

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Speaker 1: fire away to get attention and that's to break the

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Speaker 1: rules of Parliament and not be sorry. What a circus.

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