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Ryan Bridge: National's week of law and order announcements · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The award for most press releases and announcements on a
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  Speaker 1: single issue. This week must go to National Law and
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  Speaker 1: order was front and center. We had announcements about everything
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  Speaker 1: from first responders to coward punches. It was an assault
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  Speaker 1: of announcements. Now, announcements don't make streets safer. Announcements don't
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  Speaker 1: fix problems on their own. We've learnt this. This was
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  Speaker 1: a targeted campaign to reinforce the idea that they're tough
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  Speaker 1: on crime, that they're on the side of the victim.
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  Speaker 1: Why are they doing this well, because it's now one
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  Speaker 1: of the minority of issues on which they outpoll Labor.
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  Speaker 1: This is from the last IPSOS survey, so they've been
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  Speaker 1: going healthilyather on law and order. Meanwhile, and the upside
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  Speaker 1: down world we live in, Labour's overtaken the right for
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  Speaker 1: the party most trusted to fix cost of living. I know,
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of you listening, this is laughable. They
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  Speaker 1: got us into this mess, et cetera, et cetera. And
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you, but I think it's like a
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  Speaker 1: protest vote against the incumbent. When costed living is high,
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  Speaker 1: Would you actually go and vote for that person tomorrow?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you just sending a signal of general unhappiness.
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  Speaker 1: You never truly know, but Nationals clearly alive to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's becoming an achilles hell for them. The
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  Speaker 1: actual numbers are in range the oc A nearly neutral
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  Speaker 1: at three point twenty five percent, inflation at two and
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  Speaker 1: a half percent, that's inside range two. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a politically painful time lag between numbers getting into band
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  Speaker 1: and voters felling it in their pockets. Luxon's team have
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  Speaker 1: identified this problem. Their short term solution appears to me
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  Speaker 1: to be bashed the supermarkets hard and repeatedly ram raid them.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like they've finished with the mongrel mob, so
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  Speaker 1: now they're taking on the other gangsters, Woolworths an incumbent on. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: an announcement is coming on next steps. We heard from
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister yesterday. This is months out from the
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  Speaker 1: announcement being made. We're hearing it's going to come. So
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  Speaker 1: Aber bashes National on cost of living and Nashville will
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  Speaker 1: bash the supermarkets and guess what, here's the kicker. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: will happen to the prices we pay at our weekly
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  Speaker 1: grocery shop. For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge,
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