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Speaker 1: So it is the week of White Tonguey, and this

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Speaker 1: week it's been the perennial should he or shouldn't he

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Speaker 1: go debate about the Prime Minister. Now, personally, I've always

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Speaker 1: said this, I'd always go to White Tonguey if I

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Speaker 1: were the PM, even if it was just for one

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Speaker 1: of the days of the ceremonies. I mean, the air

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Speaker 1: force is not the strongest, but the air force is

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Speaker 1: perfectly capable of getting him to both White Tonguy and

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Speaker 1: Akhoror if he really wanted to. And it's said that

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Speaker 1: his non attendance is a snub of Maldi, but I

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Speaker 1: think there's another way of looking at it. He could

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Speaker 1: be staying away because he doesn't want to ruffle Maori feathers.

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Speaker 1: He has publicly said repeatedly that the Treaty Principal's actor

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Speaker 1: is going nowhere, So why go somewhere where he'll get

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Speaker 1: the heat for something he's never intended to do. David

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Speaker 1: Seymour can go and he is. It's David's baby, and

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Speaker 1: he's more than happy to stand to it. He'll take

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Speaker 1: the heat and he'll give it back. But our Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister doesn't want to go somewhere where he'll be yelled

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Speaker 1: at for something he will not do. So maybe this

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Speaker 1: isn't a snub of Maori as such, but perhaps one

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Speaker 1: of his right wing supporters and don't suit the messenger.

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Speaker 1: I've been looking at right wing discussion groups and chet groups.

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Speaker 1: They are getting increasingly vocal that they've been sold a

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Speaker 1: damp squib, that the Prime Minister is no different to

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Speaker 1: the other mob, that he's a liberal, and he's a

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Speaker 1: globalist and a mari apologist and worst of all, a

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Speaker 1: man without a plan. His weekly media round is becoming

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Speaker 1: increasingly fractious, all sides demanding that he actually do something

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Speaker 1: more than cutting all the spending. Just take a listen

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Speaker 1: to the Mike Hosking podcast from yesterday and see if

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Speaker 1: he answers stuff. Questions about policy is being answered repeatedly

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Speaker 1: with we're looking at that down the track, which is

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Speaker 1: this year's version of working groups and announcements of announcements.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, hopefully Christopher Luxson has a pleasant time at

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Speaker 1: Akaroa Harbor because that's the way he likes it. He

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Speaker 1: likes a nice, quiet, deferential crowd who loves a prime

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Speaker 1: minister because he's just the prime Minister for more from

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