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Speaker 1: So Chris Hidkins needs help as far as I can

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Speaker 1: work out for the life of me. As I said

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Speaker 1: to due of the moment, Ago got no idea why

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Speaker 1: he's wasting his time defending the Marory Party. He says

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Speaker 1: their punishments too harsh. Problem one? Is he doing it

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Speaker 1: because it is seen as anti government? In other words,

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Speaker 1: despite him saying he wasn't going to bark at any

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Speaker 1: passing car, he barks at any parssing car. Problem two.

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Speaker 1: This reinforces the general view that the Labour Party are

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Speaker 1: soft on people who break rules. Consequences should always be

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Speaker 1: watered down. Problem three. He is the leader of a

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Speaker 1: major party and the major parties represent You would have

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Speaker 1: hoped a bipartisan view that behavior and rules and etiquette

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Speaker 1: are to be adhered to in a place of national leadership.

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Speaker 1: Problem four. The Marory Party are nothing but trouble and

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Speaker 1: you want as a centrist to stay well clear of them.

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Speaker 1: They don't like parliament, they don't even believe it should exist,

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Speaker 1: and if it does exist, they should have a separate

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Speaker 1: one for themselves. Hipkins is like some tragic legal aid

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Speaker 1: boot lawyer who defends the hopeless for the sake of it.

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Speaker 1: There is no upside for him, and yet in budget

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Speaker 1: week he has brought himTo the narrative yet again that

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Speaker 1: some poor SAPs have been hard done by and it's

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Speaker 1: all not fair and he somehow has to be on

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Speaker 1: the side of the victim. Problem five. So whatever you

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Speaker 1: want about the Privileges Committee, but it is the Parliament's

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Speaker 1: long standing court and his party is part of it.

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Speaker 1: Seems odd and undermining that you're willing to partake in

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Speaker 1: the process. Then bag it when it reaches a conclusion.

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Speaker 1: Problem six. A few of his own members, of course,

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Speaker 1: were part of the original crime that infamous day when

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Speaker 1: things went dramatically to the pack, So maybe he feels

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Speaker 1: like a hypocrite, given Penny Heneray fell on his sword

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Speaker 1: and the others were too belligerent to do so either way.

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Speaker 1: Problem seven. New Zealanders want like and demand standards, so

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Speaker 1: he's on the wrong side of this. And problem eight.

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Speaker 1: When we aren't wanting improve behavior, we wouldn't mind the

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Speaker 1: big players and the political game concentrating on the big issues,

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Speaker 1: like the mess economically we're currently and as engineered by

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Speaker 1: the bloke who's busy barking at passing cars. The Greens

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Speaker 1: and the Marray Party are minor players and not serious people.

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Speaker 1: Labour are supposed to be serious, so how about giving

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