1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Just quickly back to the Treaty Principles Bill. Now, despite 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: David Semore's best efforts to pretend earlier on in the 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: show that there's absolutely nothing to see here, there is 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: no doubt. Don't buy it. There is no doubt in 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: my mind that the government is planning to introduce the 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: Treaty Principle's Bill tomorrow pretty much to try to hide 7 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: it because they know full well we're all going to 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: be completely obsessed and distracted by the US election, and 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: they know that if they get it out on Thursday tomorrow, 10 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: it's before the planned Heki even sets off on Monday. 11 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: So the he coy against the bill, and so I 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: think that indicates that they're trying to kind of bury 13 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: the thing and get ahead of everything, and it shows 14 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: how much the hating the heat that they're getting for this. Look, 15 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: it's politics, right, I mean, it feels slightly underhand, it 16 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: feels a little bit cowardly, but it's politics, and it's 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: an option available to them, and you can't really begrudge 18 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: him for doing it. But I don't even think that's 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 1: the most interesting thing that's going on here. I think 20 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: the most interesting thing is it the White Toungui Tribunal 21 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: leaked the fact that the government was going to do this, 22 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: apparently within an hour of getting a heads up, a 23 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: friendly little heads up from the government. They heard it 24 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: and they were like, better tell everybody, what are these 25 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: guys doing? How naive can you possibly be? They are 26 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: pretty much at the White Tonguey Tribunal or by themselves 27 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: making a case for why they should be reformed, like 28 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: New Zealand first wants to do. What they've done here 29 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: is that they have demonstrated just how unbelievably political they 30 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: now are. They are not a neutral body, right, They're 31 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: not just a neutral body sitting there doing their job 32 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: making decisions. They are actively taking on the government of 33 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: the day because they do not like the government of 34 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: the day. Now, that is weird to me, especially when 35 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: it comes to the Treaty Principal's Bill, because this is 36 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: a bill that's going nowhere. I mean, the Prime Minister 37 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: has already said the thing is gonna die, He's going 38 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: to kill it. So why is the White Tonguey tri 39 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: Tribunal even wasting what credibility they have trying to kill 40 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: a bill that's already gonna die. It feels like a 41 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: really weird hill to die on. And if they carry 42 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: on like this, they are going to die on a 43 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: hill because they will get reformed by New Zealand first, 44 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: because there will be a point of which we're all 45 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: completely convinced that too political. Yeah, it's about time. They 46 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: have already shown their political hand by doing weird things 47 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: like taking cases to adjudicate on government policy, which is 48 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: kind of outside their remit that they're having a crack 49 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: at the government over the spill before even seeing the spill. 50 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: But I think that this particular leak takes the cake 51 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: because there are a few things more political than a 52 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: political leak, and by doing this, they have convinced me 53 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: that they actually do need to be reformed to put 54 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: them back in their lane. 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