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Speaker 1: Is it one all. PM dug himself a hole over Iran.

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Speaker 1: Barbara Edmonds dug herself a hole in the Herald. As

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Speaker 1: far as holes go, I regard the luxe and hole

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Speaker 1: is slightly less problematic, given the war is not in

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Speaker 1: our direct purview and there is nothing we can do

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Speaker 1: about it. But it does display the ongoing issue the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister appears to have with many New Zealanders. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't look like he's confident. He doesn't tell it like

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Speaker 1: it is. In a world where people who do tell

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Speaker 1: it like it is generally succeed. He's still playing mister

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Speaker 1: nice guy and getting trapped by a media pack you love.

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Speaker 1: The smell of blood. Edmunds is a real worry. She

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Speaker 1: too is nice, so nice, she told us quite openly,

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Speaker 1: getting a surplus isn't happening anytime soon, and she doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a clue how to pay for the most expensive

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Speaker 1: promise they've made, which is restoring pay equity. Now you

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Speaker 1: can argue around the dual mandate for the Reserve Bank,

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Speaker 1: but that's Wonk's territory. Dollars and sense are real, and

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Speaker 1: it's our back pocket that's going to be affected in

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Speaker 1: paying for all of this a sad outworking of MMP.

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Speaker 1: I've observed is we have an increasing number of inexperienced

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Speaker 1: players in the game. Basically, they don't know how to

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Speaker 1: run the joint. Luxon knows business, which ties in with

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Speaker 1: the economy, which is why things are star to turn

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Speaker 1: for us. This government has done a decent job on that,

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Speaker 1: but he's an amateur on foreign policy. You only had

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Speaker 1: to listen to Winston Peters yesterday on this program to

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Speaker 1: know that people who have been there, done that, have

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Speaker 1: seen the world change, therefore can explain it. And he

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Speaker 1: doesn't take crap from juniors, which is what too much

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Speaker 1: of the press gallery is made up of these days.

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Speaker 1: The nuance and sophistication of reporting is largely gone and

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Speaker 1: replaced by clickbaits, and Luxeon, being too nice a guy

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Speaker 1: and too inexperienced in certain areas, walks right into it. Barbara,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, is entitled to her views, of course,

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Speaker 1: but this is why Labour won't win the election. She

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Speaker 1: has clearly learned nothing from watching Robertson torch the place,

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Speaker 1: and because that was only three years ago, the memories

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Speaker 1: in the voter's minds still very sharp. So in a

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Speaker 1: Gun's at Dawn Lux and wins because foreign policy Gibba

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Speaker 1: Jebba isn't as serious as economic sabotage and in competence,

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Speaker 1: but neither should have become the issue. They have for

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