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Ryan Bridge: Labour lost the country's trust, can they get it back? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Politics is largely about trust. When you break it down
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  Speaker 1: to its most simple terms, it's about trust. If you
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  Speaker 1: see a bloke or a woman on the tally trying
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  Speaker 1: to get your vote, you try and work out what
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  Speaker 1: sort of person they are. Do they think like me?
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  Speaker 1: Are they smart? Are they thick? Can I trust that
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  Speaker 1: they'll make a good decision in an important time. It's
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  Speaker 1: a magic thing that takes a lifetime to earn, in
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  Speaker 1: a second to plunder. And so as the Labor Party
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  Speaker 1: faithful filed in for their annual conference, gearing up for
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  Speaker 1: another year and then probably another term and opposition, you'd
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  Speaker 1: have to stay on balance. Voters will be thinking about well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: voters mon't be thinking about anything to do with politics
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  Speaker 1: right now, because we're mid cycle. It's way too early.
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  Speaker 1: It's like freshing over a birth before you're even pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just way too in the future. But
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  Speaker 1: when they do, they will ask whether they can trust
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  Speaker 1: Chippy Like a sugar daddy Santa. He was doling out
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  Speaker 1: the cash quicker than you could wake it in at
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, a full new hospital into need. And how
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  Speaker 1: much exactly will it cost, Well, we don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't care. They're getting it, saying what goes with
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  Speaker 1: the rail enabled fairies, They're on their way. The price
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  Speaker 1: was in the billions for the landside parts of that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's happening. How are you going to pay
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  Speaker 1: for all of that is the question when, as we
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  Speaker 1: learned last week, our growth outlooks have been downgraded. Nikolas
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  Speaker 1: is hinted at a when we find out finally, when
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  Speaker 1: we get the Hayfu numbers, that we'll probably be looking
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  Speaker 1: at at pushing the surplus even further out into the future,
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  Speaker 1: which makes you wonder whether it's ever even going to happen. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who's in government, it's that bad. So how
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  Speaker 1: do you spend all that money, commit to spending all
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  Speaker 1: that money, commit to reversing all the cuts that nationals
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  Speaker 1: made as well, and then still balance the books. It's
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  Speaker 1: like wizardry, and that's where trust comes into it. After
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  Speaker 1: six years, labor lost the country's trust on many issues because,
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  Speaker 1: as many people have said, they couldn't deliver a pizza,
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  Speaker 1: or run a bath or pick here, you know, pick
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  Speaker 1: your number of metaphors. They've been quiet on tax for now,
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  Speaker 1: but the remit did pass at the election so the
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  Speaker 1: question is where the labor should at this point be
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  Speaker 1: promising much in the way of anything to anyone when
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  Speaker 1: they've lost so much capital on delivery. For more from
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