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Speaker 1: I was going to ask I wrote this intro earlier

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Speaker 1: this morning, was there anyone yesterday who didn't feel for Crusipkins.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was an appropriate thing to write at

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Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning. Obviously I didn't read your

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Speaker 1: text since then, because you're a bunch of hard asses anyway.

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Speaker 1: Grant Duncan political commentators with us Grant morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Are you surprise I did a lot of feedback this

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Speaker 1: morning saying he's a pratt, he's a big baby for crying,

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Speaker 1: it serves him right, blah blah, like there's no sympathy

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Speaker 1: here at all. Do you have any sympathy.

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Speaker 2: I do have sympathy, yes, because I think we have

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Speaker 2: to realize that everyone goes through difficult times and we

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Speaker 2: have strong feelings about it. But of course he is

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Speaker 2: a contender for prime minister, and so that puts society

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Speaker 2: different perspective on it, doesn't it?

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Speaker 1: It does. Do you suspect the people who have no

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Speaker 1: time for it would say that about him anyway, and

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Speaker 1: they were looking for something to beat him up on.

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Speaker 1: Is there an element of that to it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Totally, there is an element of that to it.

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Speaker 2: And on the other toe, and if a person happens

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Speaker 2: to be a diet in the world labor supporter, where

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Speaker 2: then they're going to rally around him and say that

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Speaker 2: you know, he's a decent guy and he's gone through

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Speaker 2: a difficult time and therefore he's still good enough to

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Speaker 2: run for office.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your assessment if you came at this neutrally,

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Speaker 1: if there is any such thing anymore, if you came

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Speaker 1: at this neutrally you didn't mind whether he's Prime minister

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Speaker 1: or not. You saw the allegations, would it move a vote?

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Speaker 2: Well, it depends really, because some people will say, look,

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Speaker 2: that's private, let's just separate it out. That doesn't affect

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Speaker 2: how I assess him as Prime minister. And of course

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Speaker 2: if you're a really staunched labor supporter, you will rally

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Speaker 2: around him. But on the other hand, there are people

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Speaker 2: who do fairly directly draw a line between a person's

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Speaker 2: private life and their conduct, and private life and their

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Speaker 2: suitability for public office. And that's the question of the trust,

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Speaker 2: their trustworthiness, and the consistency between their party values and

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Speaker 2: what they do in private.

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Speaker 1: Storm in a teacup or has this got legs?

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Speaker 2: I do think it has legs. I think the question

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Speaker 2: won't go away. This is the thing, and as I say,

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Speaker 2: there are many people who particularly women voters, who will

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Speaker 2: have the question in their minds now, and these things

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Speaker 2: don't get forgotten. Interestingly enough, we've seen this in the past.

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Speaker 1: Now interesting, all right, Grant, appreciate it very much. Any

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Speaker 1: family lawyer, for what it's worth. By the way, would

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Speaker 1: tell the ex wife not to do what she's done

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Speaker 1: once you involve the kids, of course, so that's a

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