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Speaker 1: I was going to suggest we're a bit petty in

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Speaker 1: this country, but I've been saved, fortunately by the bricks.

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Speaker 1: They're having a couple of debates over money at the moment.

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Speaker 1: One's involving a woman called Sue Gray who's quit, and

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Speaker 1: the other is over the role of Cabinet Secretary, which

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Speaker 1: is the country's top civil servant, a job which is

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Speaker 1: currently vacant given the incumbent step down for health reason.

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Speaker 1: Sue Gray, as it turns out, was earning more than

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, which, for reasons I'm not entirely sure about,

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Speaker 1: needed to be turned into a scrap. There are plenty

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Speaker 1: of civil servants here, of course, who earn more than

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Speaker 1: the Prime minister. We don't seem to have a problem

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Speaker 1: with that, but we don't like it. It appears that

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Speaker 1: the pms are a little bit wealthy. But I'll come

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Speaker 1: back to that. The Cabinet Secretary in Britain has paid

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Speaker 1: a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year, and a

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Speaker 1: bloke called Lord O'Donnell who used to do it, is

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Speaker 1: busy running a campaign arguing it's grossly underpaid. As for

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Speaker 1: Miss Gray, she was on one hundred and seventy thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year the prime minister's one hundred and sixty six.

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Speaker 1: When this was revealed, she became a distraction. So quit. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: she's got a new job that no one seems to

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Speaker 1: understand what it means, which is one of the ironies

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Speaker 1: of this whole jealousy driven nonsense. Would you rather a

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Speaker 1: person in a high performance role get more in a

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Speaker 1: job that you understand, or they get less than a

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Speaker 1: job that you've got no idea just what it is

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Speaker 1: they do. But because it isn't more than the Prime minister,

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Speaker 1: that then looks okay. The fact that they may or

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Speaker 1: may not do anything is beside the point, which brings

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Speaker 1: us back to the current Prime minister here, who, because

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Speaker 1: he sold a couple of rentals, is clearly far too wealthy,

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Speaker 1: so we need a good bitch about that as well.

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Speaker 1: The fact the National Party Prime minister before the current

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Speaker 1: one was a mile more wealthy again never really seem

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Speaker 1: to bother anybody. So maybe it's this post COVID cost

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Speaker 1: of living anks that's got so many people upset at

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Speaker 1: the moment. If you want something to exercise yourself with,

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Speaker 1: how about the prime minister who ran the country into

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Speaker 1: the ground, then scarpe it to write a book and

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Speaker 1: wander around the speaking circuit, creaming it by making money

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Speaker 1: from her ineptitude and subsequent economic misfortune. What's worse a

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Speaker 1: civil servant working god knows how many hours for two

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year, a prime minister in New

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Speaker 1: Zealand on four hundred and eighty four thousand dollars a year,

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Speaker 1: but a couple of what is he made money on?

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Speaker 1: Or or a fly by nighter who came second in

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Speaker 1: one election locked us down for the second bucketed up

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Speaker 1: in record fashion, fled to make a fortune telling people

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Speaker 1: how kind she is. See, some people in jobs are

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Speaker 1: worth the money, some aren't. But jealousy is a waste

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