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Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, don't you think that

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Speaker 1: Labour's first policy has been a flop. It's been panned

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Speaker 1: by pretty much everybody worth listening to or worth reading.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I see Mikey Sherman over over at TVNZ

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Speaker 1: liked it last night. She called it a solid first

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Speaker 1: hat on tally, But I think everyone else seems to

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Speaker 1: have seen through what Chippy's trying to do here. Let

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Speaker 1: me quote you some Tom pull A Strekker at The

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Speaker 1: Post Labour's Future Fund hits the buzzwords, but the rationale

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Speaker 1: is hard to follow. Patrick Smelley at Business Desk. This

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Speaker 1: suggests either that labor is economically illiterate or that its

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Speaker 1: target audience is presumed to be Radio New Zealand. The

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Speaker 1: distinct lack of detail has left Labour somewhat exposed, evoking

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Speaker 1: echoes of other ambitious projects that fizzled, like Key We

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Speaker 1: Build All the Green Investment Fund. Gina Tibscherany at The

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Speaker 1: Herald says this is actually less about making New Zealand

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Speaker 1: wealthy and really more about having a crack at national

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Speaker 1: impossible asset sales at the next election. Henry Cook at

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Speaker 1: The Post Labour's Future Fund promises everything and nothing. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to know what to really make of this. And

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Speaker 1: then Patrick Smelley again, because his piece is just so

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Speaker 1: a viscerated Labor will have to do a whole lot

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Speaker 1: better than this. Now, basically what you could take from

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Speaker 1: that is that no one serious is convinced by it,

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Speaker 1: because Labour has taken a great idea, which is Singapore's Temrsek,

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Speaker 1: and then taken all all the taken away all the

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Speaker 1: things that make tamask successful. Tamasik sells assets, this lot

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Speaker 1: is not allowed. Tamasik invests overseas, this lot is not allowed.

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Speaker 1: That's just a couple of the problems here. I mean

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Speaker 1: the list, honestly, the list of problems in this policy

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Speaker 1: announcement is so long we could do an entire show

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Speaker 1: about it. I suspect Labor knows this. I think they

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Speaker 1: know it's a bad idea. They just think we're too

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Speaker 1: stupid to realize how bad an idea it is. They

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Speaker 1: think that we're going to be hoodwinked by all of

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Speaker 1: the feel good slogans about investing in New Zealand's future

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Speaker 1: and cutting out the foreign investors and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But I'm happy to report that judging by the media

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Speaker 1: around up, I just read you when we're not at

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Speaker 1: all as stupid as Labour thinks we are. We can

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Speaker 1: see a dog policy when we're presented by Worth one

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