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Speaker 1: I suppose the ultimate question is what do you want

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Speaker 1: in a leader, or more specifically, the prime minister. Chris

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Speaker 1: Hopkins is immersed in this growing mess around social media

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Speaker 1: and an angry ex wife hand on heart before all

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Speaker 1: this happened, hand on heart. If this information hadn't been

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Speaker 1: sent to me, I would not have asked, because I

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Speaker 1: genuinely don't care. I still subscribe to the broad idea

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Speaker 1: that personal lives are off limits unless you decide that

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Speaker 1: they are fair game. Now social media has changed all

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Speaker 1: the rules. Of course, did the post of me at

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Speaker 1: a pab or a charity run give you clearance control

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Speaker 1: through every detail of my life? Does a political figure

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Speaker 1: asking for your vote entitle you to know everything about them?

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Speaker 1: And if so, where's the line? And the line surely

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Speaker 1: is different for each and every one of us. Equally,

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Speaker 1: it has a chilling effect for everything that maybe could

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Speaker 1: be said about you that isn't true, or is said

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Speaker 1: with malice, with a bit of added spice, that isn't

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Speaker 1: strictly true, but designed to damage you. It must put

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Speaker 1: people off public office, mustn't it there? There but for

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Speaker 1: the grace of God? I mean, who needs that grief?

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Speaker 1: No one squeaky clean. But if the parliament is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be representative, I suppose you could argue Hipkins in

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Speaker 1: his ex represent a large slice of the New Zealand countryside. Married, divorced,

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Speaker 1: things got messy, that's life experience. You could argue she's toxic.

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Speaker 1: You could argue he's a prick. You could argue a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff, which is why it is probably best

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Speaker 1: left given that doesn't cross the threshold of requiring the authorities.

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Speaker 1: In other words, it's domestic, it's not illegal. It's not

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Speaker 1: involving police or authorities or courts or charges or investigations.

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Speaker 1: It's she said, he said. I would love to know,

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Speaker 1: and AI will tell us this one day, But I

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Speaker 1: would love to know. How many have reacted to the

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Speaker 1: allegations strongly because they hate Hipkins and they want to

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Speaker 1: take him down, versus how many have reacted strongly because

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Speaker 1: of the accusations in isolation, versus how many haven't reacted

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Speaker 1: at all, Versus how many have reacted against her for

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Speaker 1: seeking revenge, Versus how many have gone out of their

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Speaker 1: way to track down the comments because they're nosy. What

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Speaker 1: a mix say public life, social media, gossip, in nuendo, anger,

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Speaker 1: broken hearts, re venge toxicity, and sticky beakery. It would

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