1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: I have Luxon one, Media zero after no small effort 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: on the media's part to drum up this crisis on 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: a bad pole. So two important points and we can 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: put this whole stupid thing to bed. One, Luxon doesn't 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: have a coup brewing. Despite all the all the conspiratorialists' 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: best efforts. There is no one counting numbers. The nearest 7 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: they managed to get as Christopher Bishop it was more 8 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: interested in being India over the weekend than lining up 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: a new job. Also, we don't vote for prime ministers, 10 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: they are not presidents. We vote for parties and policies 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: and results. If you like National, you don't not vote 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: National because the leader isn't to your taste. And two, 13 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: the revelation from the Courier pole that on one hand 14 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: they tried to tell you yesterday how unpopular Luxon was 15 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: with his net negative rating of minus nineteen, turns out 16 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: bishops about as bad at minus fourteen. Erica Stanford's minus sixteen. 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: Everyone's underwater, Winston Seemore Hopkins. No one's in positive territory. 18 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: And that tells you a couple of things as well. 19 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: We live in an era where likability is irrelevant because 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: we hate everyone post COVID. We've never got over the funk. 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: So as much as you want to bang on about 22 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Lucky and not connecting, according to the numbers, no one connects. 23 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: It's all over the world. Trump's underwater Starmer's underwater Albanese 24 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: is underwater. Macron's underwater mens who runs New South Wales 25 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: is popular currently because of his handling a Bondai. Apart 26 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: from that pickup politician, we hate them all in the 27 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: likeability numbers, the likes of which we see on the 28 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: tv I Poles. If Hepkins was fifty and Luckxon was twenty, 29 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: that's an issue, but they're not. They're both stuck at 30 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: about twenty and have been forever, and all the others 31 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: are below that. That's why none of this matters. In 32 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: the past, the Poles have shown an answer, a suitor, 33 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: a name that drives a bit of fizz. We have 34 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: no such names. Now. You can debate the merits or 35 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: otherwise of great leaders with great personalities or lack of them, 36 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: but we are where we are. None of the current 37 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: lot will go down as Churchill's to paraphrase Trump and Churchill. 38 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: By the way, for a lot of the time wasn't 39 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: popular either irony of ironies. So let's see this nonsense 40 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: for what it is. We're voting on the economy, not showmen. 41 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: There is no coup. This is but one pole, mountain, molehill, 42 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: waste of time. Let's all try and do a lot better. 43 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: There's too much at stake. For more from The Mic 44 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talk Set B from 45 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.