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Speaker 1: Now Benjamin Doyle, the Green MP, is quitting Parliament. Benjamin

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Speaker 1: says they've decided to leave after an onslaught of hate,

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Speaker 1: vitriol and violent threats ever since their Bible belt bussy

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Speaker 1: Instagram account hit the headlines earlier this year. Peter Dunn

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Speaker 1: as a former leader of the United Future Party and

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Speaker 1: a political commentator and with us Hi Peter Hi Heaver,

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Speaker 1: do you reckon this resignation was inevitable?

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Speaker 2: I think it probably was, and I think it's probably

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Speaker 2: the best thing for Benjamin Doyle and the best thing

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Speaker 2: for Parliament. Actually, it removes a distraction, It removes Benjamin

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Speaker 2: Doyor from an environment in which he was clearly uncomfortable

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Speaker 2: and didn't fit, and I think it's just the best

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Speaker 2: outcome all round.

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Speaker 1: Really, do you reckon that it is as Benjamin has

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Speaker 1: framed it, that they've decided to leave or is it

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Speaker 1: more likely that the Green parties told them to leave.

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Speaker 2: I suspect it's a bit of both. I suspect they

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Speaker 2: would have been not unhappy at his decision when it

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Speaker 2: was revealed to them. But as I say, best all around.

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Speaker 2: Having said that, what it does, of course is put

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Speaker 2: the onus back on the Green Party, they selected this

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Speaker 2: person in the first please, they're responsible really for determining

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Speaker 2: their suitability to be in parliament, and they clearly failed.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's part one more of a sort

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Speaker 2: of a litany of failures really that they've had during

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Speaker 2: this parliamentary term in that respect. So I think the

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Speaker 2: Green Party will need to do some pretty serious soul

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Speaker 2: searching about who it selects as candidates in the future,

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Speaker 2: the process by which it does that, and the sort

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Speaker 2: of the support it gives those people once they do

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Speaker 2: get into parliament.

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Speaker 1: Peter, can you think of another party that's had like

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Speaker 1: this many MPs just filter through in a short period

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Speaker 1: of time.

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Speaker 2: No, No, this is unprecedented, and I think it goes

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Speaker 2: back to what I was just saying. I think people

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Speaker 2: were selected, I think for the Green Party list more

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Speaker 2: by the sort of the interest group that they represented

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Speaker 2: or the potential voter base that they appealed to, rather

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Speaker 2: than their suitability to serve as members of Parliament. And

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Speaker 2: I think you know, from the Goali's Government incident, Darning Tana,

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Speaker 2: now the Benjamin Doyle incident, it's just been one thing

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Speaker 2: after another for them, and it's not coincidence.

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Speaker 1: No, it's completely bonkers. Peter, Thank you as always enjoy

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Speaker 1: your weekend. Peter Dunn, former United Future leader and political commentator.

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