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Speaker 1: Do you ever want an example why Chris Hipkins is

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Speaker 1: not going to be the next Prime Minister to watch

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Speaker 1: Question Time Yesterday he made a twofold mistake. Mistake one

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Speaker 1: is being a labor MP obsessed with esoteric wonky subjects

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Speaker 1: like United Nations treaties and charters, and two being obsessed

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Speaker 1: with making a global issue all about New Zealand when

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Speaker 1: in reality we've got nothing to do with it. The

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister has kind of got trapped in this as well.

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Speaker 1: The reality is the attack in Iran will affect us all, yes,

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Speaker 1: whether through petrol prices, possibly some inflationary issues, and our

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Speaker 1: ability to travel Europe through Dubai. Outside of that, it

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Speaker 1: is not our war. We did not start it, We

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Speaker 1: are not participating in it. We are a world away

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Speaker 1: from it. The Prime Minister and the Government can answer

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Speaker 1: questions as far as anyone can answer questions on what

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Speaker 1: it might mean for our economy or our travel or

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Speaker 1: our petrol bille. But what they can't do, and yet

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Speaker 1: are being asked to do, is explain why the Americans

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Speaker 1: did what they did, how they may or may not

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Speaker 1: tie into the United Nations and various charters. Luxeon got

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Speaker 1: bogged down and the legalities of it. In a Monday

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Speaker 1: walked it back or some of his comments back yesterday

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Speaker 1: about all the actions to eliminate orasim being good actions.

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Speaker 1: But then Hipkins started binging on about the UN as

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Speaker 1: though New Zealand is the boss of the UN. New

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Speaker 1: Zealand was exclusively given details of the material the United

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Speaker 1: States acted on and has insight that no other country

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Speaker 1: has as to whether there is a so called eminent

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Speaker 1: threat labour. Hopkins and the media do this every time.

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Speaker 1: They try and place New Zealand, a tiny, insignificant country

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the world, into the center of

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Speaker 1: all global action, as though we somehow affect it, can

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Speaker 1: change it, or explain it, participate in it, or even

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Speaker 1: stop it. Esoteric international law is of little interest to

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Speaker 1: most of us on a daily basis. Arguing over United

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Speaker 1: Nations charters is the stuff of Chardonnay and Thornden and

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Speaker 1: people far removed from regular New Zealanders lives and thought patterns.

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Speaker 1: It's a dumb game trying to trap a government into

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Speaker 1: saying random stuff in the hope they get a headline

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Speaker 1: or an apologia scalp. This has nothing to do with us.

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Speaker 1: Like the weather it will affect us, but we don't

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Speaker 1: drive it, influence it, or even know a lot about it. Also,

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Speaker 1: for what it's worth, by arguing the way labor does,

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Speaker 1: they are hopelessly out of step with your average New

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Speaker 1: Zealander who I suspect. If you ask the simple question,

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Speaker 1: is getting rid of the crazies and Iran a good idea,

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Speaker 1: the answer would be yes. For more from the Mic

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