1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: How what do you reckon happen? You know at the 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: Button meeting Willison, Hurrel, Nikola and Miles. Is it a 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: meeting that took on a hopeless amount of hype or 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: was it a sign that at times this government and 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: Willison particular, says stuff that makes them look like they're 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: onto it when perhaps they're not. Are the reality in 7 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: these well they meet regularly Fonterra plays an outside's role 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: in our economy, and therefore it would be odd if 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: they didn't. But Nicola has this ponchean don't you think 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: of saying stuff that might lead you to believe she 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: could produce an oozy out of a handbag and blitz 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: the room. She has the banks, who she keeps telling 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: us of people we should not be locked in a 14 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: dark room with. She has the supermarkets, who, in her 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: Cluseau type way, suggest she's been ferreting about the aisles 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: and has found dastardly deeds. Jacinda had the same predilection 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: when she told us the petrol companies were quote unquote 18 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: fleecing us. It's all good stuff for headlines and attention. 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: Of course, it's very good, good guy, bad guy stuff. 20 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: If hot air were rocket fuel. She could have fled 21 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: under the moon and back six times. But is your 22 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: butter anymore affordable? Of course not, And in that is 23 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: the problem, not with the price, but with Nicola. Wouldn't 24 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: it be fantastic if there was a scandal or a 25 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: ripoff or some highway robbery. Wouldn't it be awesome if 26 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: she could tie a butter producer to a chair and 27 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: water board them until they screamed yes, yes, yes, it's true. 28 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: The real price is only three seventy six, not eight fifty. Sadly, 29 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: you know what, it's not gonna happen. And presumably as 30 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: if she needed it, Miles worked her through the calculations 31 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: at last night's meeting. We pay for butter the global 32 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: price the iron being. In this case, that's actually good 33 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: news because dairy in general is booming, and we need 34 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: something to boom for goodness sake. What we would like 35 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: to do versus what we have to do for good 36 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: reason are two separate things. That's why butter is the 37 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: price it is. The real question for Niccola is how 38 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: many meetings, threats and finger waggles does she have to 39 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: produce for no change before someone calls her out for 40 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: being a lot of mouth and not a lot of trouser. 41 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 42 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or follow 43 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.