1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Now, listening to Chris Hopkins's State of the Nation's speech today, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: it was really hard to take him seriously because the 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: speech was mostly just a list of the things that 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: are wrong with the country at the moment, most of 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: which anyone who can remember back five, six, seven years 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: knows was caused by him. Grant, Jusinda and Adrian or like. 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: Listen to this line. I see young New Zealanders, smart, 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: hard working, full of potential, making calculations that no young 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: person should have to do. I stay in the country 10 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: I love, or do I leave to build the life 11 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: I've worked for. It breaks my heart. Well, it shouldn't 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: break his heart because he was warned about it. When 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: he and j Cinder and Grant were contemplating long lockdowns 14 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: for Auckland at the tail end of the pandemic, they 15 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: were explicitly warned by Treasury that young people would suffer 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: the most. I quote. The negative consequences are that low 17 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: employment and income rates are shown to persist for young 18 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: people well after recessions have waned. Treasury Advice, thirteenth of 19 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: May twenty one. Now we've already spent long enough debating 20 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: whether the lockdowns should have happened we don't have to 21 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: do that again. But the consequence of those lockdowns there 22 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: in black and white. Young people bear the consequences mostly 23 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: so he can hardly complain now that young people are 24 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: the ones who are leaving the country. It was predicted. 25 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: He's complaining about affordability. It was during his government that 26 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: inflation spiked at seven point three percent. Some of it, yes, 27 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: was global, a lot of it was Grant Robertson allowing 28 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: Adrian order print billions of dollars. Again, right or wrong, 29 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: we can debate that, but it was his government actions 30 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: that led to the affordability that he's complaining about. He 31 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: complains about unemployment. Unemployment is there because of the recession 32 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: that Adrian all engineered to bring down the inflation that was, 33 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: as I just said, created by him and Grant. Now, 34 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm not defending the National led government. That's not my job. Frankly, 35 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: I think they could have done a lot more to 36 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: tidy up the government's books. That's woeful, but they did 37 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: not create the mess that Chippy is complaining about it 38 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: and is beyond ironic to have him standing there saying, 39 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: oh look what a mess this is and proposing to 40 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: be the man to fix the mess when he was 41 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: part of the team. Nay, right up there in the 42 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: top three of the team that created the mess. For 43 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: more from Hither Duplessy, Allen Drive, listen live to news 44 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the 45 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio.