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Speaker 1: There is a real risk to the government's reputation. I

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Speaker 1: mean of every government is thinking ahead to when they

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Speaker 1: next need to be re elected. There's a risk here

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Speaker 1: that the government is taking when it goes for sanctions

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Speaker 1: on beneficiaries, when it goes for tougher requirements and criteria

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Speaker 1: when it comes to social housing, for example. And you're

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Speaker 1: starting to see some kickback already in response to some

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Speaker 1: of these changes. Now, if you're a centrist voter, you

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Speaker 1: might think, well, I think that those are reasonable expectations

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Speaker 1: to put on social housing providers, to put on emergency

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Speaker 1: accommodation criteria, to put onto benefit beneficiaries through sanctions or

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Speaker 1: through obligations. You might think those things are reasonable. On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, you might think that seems a bit cruel,

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Speaker 1: and actually, in an economy like this, where jobs are

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Speaker 1: hard to come by, I might find myself in that position.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to have those types of obligations. I

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Speaker 1: don't understand what those obligations are. So there is a

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Speaker 1: political risk to doing this stuff. But it's bread and

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Speaker 1: butter for national and it's bread and butter for act

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Speaker 1: This is exactly what their base want, what their supporters want,

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Speaker 1: and so they are doing it, but it does come

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Speaker 1: with a risk. It does come with some political risk.

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Speaker 1: One thing that they need to get on top of

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Speaker 1: their government is retail crime. The Dairy Owners Group, this

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Speaker 1: is based on police data, have released new information this morning.

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Speaker 1: So they say that retail crime is up seventeen percent

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Speaker 1: under national seventeen percent. This is the government. Remember the

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Speaker 1: coalition government said we're going to crack down on retail crime.

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Speaker 1: The first five months of this year versus last year,

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Speaker 1: theft was up, robberies were down interestingly five percent, burglaries

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Speaker 1: down ten percent. But here's the one you need to

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Speaker 1: worry about. Acts intended to cause injury. We're up four percent.

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Speaker 1: That is very bad and you're seeing it with hammers

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Speaker 1: and all sorts of things being used as weapons and

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Speaker 1: shops that the government needs to get on top of

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Speaker 1: because they made a big promise. Mark Mitchell has talked

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Speaker 1: the big talk. The numbers so far aren't tracking in

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Speaker 1: their direction and they need to turn them around. For

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