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Speaker 1: These polls that keep showing laborhead a National a sign

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Speaker 1: of well, how crap the economy is really up. Until

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, though, I was sort of ignoring

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Speaker 1: the polls because Labor didn't have any policy, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: this is a protest vote. People are pissed at National

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Speaker 1: for not fixing the mess that Labor left behind. The

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Speaker 1: voters aren't stupid. Voters are never stupid, and they're voting

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Speaker 1: for a no policy party as a protest, not because

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Speaker 1: they'd actually vote for them. Now, Labor has some policies,

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Speaker 1: albeit three, but they include the contentious one, the capital

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Speaker 1: gains tax, and they will love how this has played

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Speaker 1: for them so far, because so far it actually hasn't

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Speaker 1: been a terrible mess. So now that Labor has policies

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Speaker 1: confirming they are indeed a party of more tax and

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Speaker 1: more spend, the numbers should, in theory, be turning, but

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Speaker 1: they're not. The latest IPSOS poll shows voters trust Labor

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Speaker 1: more on the economy and cost of living than National.

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Speaker 1: Basically everything except foreign affairs and law and order and

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Speaker 1: foreign AFA is Winston Peters. So not great for the coalition,

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Speaker 1: We're not great for National, I should say the economy

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Speaker 1: should turn around, green shoots next year, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: How many times have we been told that? But people

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Speaker 1: just aren't feeling it yet. So national strategy for weight

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Speaker 1: and hope till November next year, which is likely when

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Speaker 1: they're going to go to the polls, is looking riskier

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Speaker 1: by the day. As for the leadership question, Jacinda didn't

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Speaker 1: teach us much about leadership, but we did learn something

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Speaker 1: important from her, and that is you can switch leaders

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Speaker 1: really close to an election day and not crash your vote.

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Speaker 1: In fact, you can actually increase it. So and eleventh

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Speaker 1: hour switch to Stanford or Bish or whoever will remain

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Speaker 1: a live option, I think, right up until D Day.

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