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Ryan Bridge: Another MP struggling to grasp the realities of running a small business · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A wild, bizarre and highly entertaining media scrum in Wellington yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: culminating with an MP saying he didn't mind swimming in
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  Speaker 1: other people's sewage. Yes, human waste. I'm talking here about
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  Speaker 1: the chaotic caucus run of one labor MP for Ohard,
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  Speaker 1: Greg O'Connor. He was asked, first of all, why Wellington's dying.
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  Speaker 1: You know you've seeing that in the news, with the
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  Speaker 1: cafes closing down, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Why when you walk along the waterfront there's not enough
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  Speaker 2: to do along that waterfront. I mean there's been stopping
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  Speaker 2: things from happening. I mean you can walk a long
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  Speaker 2: way there. There's no cafe. There's no way to actually
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  Speaker 2: get a coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Greg, Greg, Greg, why don't they just put more cafes in?
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  Speaker 1: He says, Well, these things require business investment and profit
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  Speaker 1: to be had, don't they could? The reason that there
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  Speaker 1: aren't enough flat whites down at Queen's Wharf be because
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  Speaker 1: one labor height the minimum wage beyond affordability. Too, they
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  Speaker 1: help drive up inflation with unrestrained government spending. And three
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  Speaker 1: they told everyone to stay home and out of the CBD,
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  Speaker 1: out of the office. So far, so normally I guess
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  Speaker 1: and MP struggling to grasp the realities of running a
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  Speaker 1: small business. Here's where it all gets a bit messy,
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  Speaker 1: though literally, he says. The solution is to get more
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  Speaker 1: people terroists, residents whoever, get them down to the waterfront.
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  Speaker 1: Get them down to Queen's Wharf, he says, And a
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  Speaker 1: reporter kindly points out that the water is often not
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  Speaker 1: safe for swimming because of human waste. Are you talking
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  Speaker 1: about the same harbor that gets polluted when there's heavy
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  Speaker 1: rain due to the bed plash?
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't stop people swimming? And there does. Hey, that's a typical.
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  Speaker 2: So why you look at the where else can you
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  Speaker 2: swim off or into bay Beach?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they don't advise you to swim in there because
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  Speaker 1: the sewage in the harbor, And we're.
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  Speaker 2: Rising people not to do that for years, so people
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  Speaker 2: have done it.
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  Speaker 1: Look, would would you swim in the harbor of the
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  Speaker 1: sewageon there? Don't worry about it, just jump in, don't
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  Speaker 1: wry about the feces. Then here's the best part. Let's
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  Speaker 1: blame the generalists for reporting on the waste water in
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  Speaker 1: the first place.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a warning at the moment? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: you guys, is there a warning you are earlier? So
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  Speaker 2: what bringing this up there? So it's Wellington positive? Is
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  Speaker 2: that you can go swimming Wellington Harbor today? Is that
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  Speaker 2: what I'm hearing from you? Good report? That gold on guys.
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  Speaker 1: The world. According to Greg O'Connor, you can't beat Wellington
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  Speaker 1: on a good day. A good day being one with
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  Speaker 1: no wind and no rain, no pooh in your harbor,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps a coffee cart down at the waterfront. I
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  Speaker 1: think there should be a new slogan, Wellington take a
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