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Speaker 1: Mumblings around the future of priss Hipkins as leader have

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Speaker 1: started a labour. Have added to their problems this week

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Speaker 1: with a social media post from David Parker, wittering on

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Speaker 1: about his tax dream, capital gains tax, get all those

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Speaker 1: rich bastards lined up and ragged their pockets. It's a

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Speaker 1: sorry old state they find themselves in. The power crisis

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Speaker 1: of courses and the dea of sorts. The cold hard

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Speaker 1: reality of their policies have come home to roost for

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Speaker 1: us and haunt them. I mean, you can argue the

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Speaker 1: same around the economy. I suppose in general, their COVID

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Speaker 1: approach three recessions and two years, a record unmatched by

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Speaker 1: anyone I can find, is pretty damning for a government

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Speaker 1: that spent six years basically wrecking the place. But the

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Speaker 1: power is indisputable. We have no gas because we haven't

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Speaker 1: looked for any because they closed it down. The lack

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Speaker 1: of rain or wind isn't their fault, but the frigility

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Speaker 1: of the system is. And all the stuff they said

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Speaker 1: would happen to close the gap hasn't, and the onslow

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Speaker 1: idea went nowhere. And the simple, irrefutable truth is as

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Speaker 1: a result of a lack of supply, the price is

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Speaker 1: up and some people can't pay it, and people are

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Speaker 1: out of work. It's a series of very clear, simple

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Speaker 1: dots that can be laid directly at their doorstep. It

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Speaker 1: goes to credibility they have none, and now tax if

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Speaker 1: labor go to the next election, let me tell you

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Speaker 1: this for nothing. If they go to the next election

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Speaker 1: with a package of new taxes like capital gains, they

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Speaker 1: may as well not campaign. They will have a twofold problem.

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Speaker 1: One the recent memory of their performance and government still

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Speaker 1: fresh in voters minds, and two a new idea being

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Speaker 1: we will tax you some more for good measure. They

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Speaker 1: will of course be facing a government that has cut

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Speaker 1: taxes and may well, if they're lucky, have an economy

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Speaker 1: with some real esteam driving it. If Hipkins makes it

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Speaker 1: that far, his vision will seem so weird, so out

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Speaker 1: of touch, so ideologically mad. He will not only lose,

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Speaker 1: but quite possibly lose badly. So you can't hide your past.

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Speaker 1: You can hope that people forget, and time does help that.

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Speaker 1: But if more taxes their calling card for twenty six

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Speaker 1: it's game over before it's even started. For more from

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