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Speaker 1: People have been looking at the polls, and that was

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Speaker 1: at home yesterday looking at all the stories about the polls.

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Speaker 1: I don't think people are telling pollsters that they would

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Speaker 1: vote for labor because they would actually vote for labor.

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Speaker 1: Labour hasn't got any policies. They are an empty vessel.

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Speaker 1: It's captain still, according to most recent polling, less popular

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Speaker 1: than Luxon. This is a protest vote. They're telling the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, hey, hurry up and do something else to

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Speaker 1: rescue the economy that the last lot and the trade

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Speaker 1: will have suppressed. You don't throw the baby out with

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Speaker 1: the bathwater and back a team that has no plan.

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Speaker 1: That clown, literally a clown that's running in the Wellington

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Speaker 1: Meryal race, has more policies than hipkins right now. He

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Speaker 1: wants to turn the base and Reserve into a swamp.

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Speaker 1: Sure it's mad, but at least it's a policy. Late

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Speaker 1: last year and earlier this year, the recovery was on track.

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Speaker 1: It was heading in the right direction. They got hit

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Speaker 1: by Trump's Liberation Day. Confidence and investment took a massive hit.

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Speaker 1: The markets were in free fall. Remember that long ago,

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Speaker 1: but you do forget it's throwing everything. Of course now

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Speaker 1: You can argue that National went too hard and fast

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Speaker 1: on cutting the spending and stopping infrastructure projects, but at

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Speaker 1: the same time they were voted in to stop wasteful

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Speaker 1: spending on dumb stuff. That's what we asked them to do.

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Speaker 1: Many think that hasn't actually gone far enough. Just yesterday

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Speaker 1: we learn of one hundred jobs going at the Reserve Bank,

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Speaker 1: which under Adrian Or wanted a budget of more than

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars and to keep twice the number of

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Speaker 1: staff that they started the pandemic with. Does that sound

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Speaker 1: reasonable to you? This comes down to a question of

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Speaker 1: who is best place to invest in this country, the

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Speaker 1: private sector or the state. The answer of courses a

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Speaker 1: bit of both, But it's chicken or egg stuff right now.

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Speaker 1: One thing is for sure. If the only thing capable

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Speaker 1: of keeping this country afloat is government borrowing like the

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Speaker 1: last lot did, then we'll only ever end up back

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Speaker 1: in this same position over and over again. The medicine

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Speaker 1: needed to dig us out of this hole is nasty, tastes, disgusting,

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Speaker 1: completely unpalatable, but the disease it's treating was worse. For

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