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Speaker 1: Now, don't you hate it when the kids fight. There's

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Speaker 1: a quiet war happening right now between David Seymour and

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Speaker 1: Winston Peters, the coalition partners. It's kicked up a little lately,

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Speaker 1: both boys playing games as they try to win the

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Speaker 1: hearts of the public and then win votes, which will

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Speaker 1: be all important when we finally go back to the

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Speaker 1: polls in twenty twenty six. This, of course, is the

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Speaker 1: problem when you're a minor party. You need to make

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Speaker 1: noise to be noticed. You can get swamped so very

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Speaker 1: very easily. And the big noise for a while has

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Speaker 1: been David Seymour, who took conversations by the throat with

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Speaker 1: his treaty principles act love it or hate it, you're

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Speaker 1: all talking about it, which is all a politician wants.

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Speaker 1: Last week I said, when I was doing the Drive show,

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Speaker 1: I did an editorial that said that Winston's been a

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Speaker 1: good boy while he's held the deputy prime minister job,

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Speaker 1: but that's coming to an end in a few months.

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Speaker 1: He does a swap seat with David Seymour. That will

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Speaker 1: free Winston's hand. You're going to hear a lot more

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Speaker 1: from him. And look at that he started this week.

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Speaker 1: That's why he's taken over the railways. He wants to

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Speaker 1: be seen as a savior and a solver. The Herald

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Speaker 1: editorial this morning calls the move a Peter's power play.

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Speaker 1: Seymour and Peters have very different views of the railways.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Winston blames past privatizations. David wants to

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Speaker 1: privatize forty nine percent of it. Winston, by the way,

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Speaker 1: also has a treaty principal strategy. Just like David. He's

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Speaker 1: looking to cancel the legislation that already exists that prescribes

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Speaker 1: how the treaty veigels its way into our legislation. It's

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Speaker 1: got a much better chance of success than Seymour's Act

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Speaker 1: and referendum, but so far it's flowed under the radar

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Speaker 1: since the election. That hacks Winston off. And it's coming

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Speaker 1: and he's going to be free to promote it. So

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Speaker 1: you're going to hear a lot more about that soon.

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Speaker 1: And you've got to remember the difference between Winston and David.

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Speaker 1: Winston is an old school conservative and closer really to

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Speaker 1: those old fashioned socialists we used to know that cared

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Speaker 1: about the working class, but it didn't have much truck

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Speaker 1: with all that sort of liberal stuff. You know those guys.

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Speaker 1: David Seymour, though he's part of the New Conservatism and

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Speaker 1: believes in capitalism, markets and winner takes all, Winston doesn't

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Speaker 1: believe that they are not naturally compatible. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's a good thing that they're starting to fight, even

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Speaker 1: if they are fighting in public. The next eighteen months

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Speaker 1: looks to be increasingly entertaining, and that is also a

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Speaker 1: good thing, because you know, what are we about here?

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Speaker 1: A contest of ideas. For more from Early Edition with

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge, listen live to News Talks it be from

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