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Andrew Dickens: Winston should know better · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So Winston Peters Winston Peter's escaped censure yesterday from the
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  Speaker 1: speaker after his little outburst against a Green MP, who
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  Speaker 1: let's face it, that green MP was a y happy
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  Speaker 1: little interrupter in the house and he obviously got Winston's
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  Speaker 1: goat in. Winston then led his mouth off, but his
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  Speaker 1: escaped censer from the speaker. However, he's still being judged
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  Speaker 1: in the court of public opinion. We had carmel Sepaloni
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  Speaker 1: from Labor jumping up and down demanding he resigned or
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  Speaker 1: be sacrigo, to go away, which is not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: He's just playing the politics. And then we had China
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  Speaker 1: complaining to m Fat. You got to hand it to China.
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  Speaker 1: They play a subtle ball. They know how to do
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  Speaker 1: this sort of you know this, you know this conversation
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  Speaker 1: between nations. They never mentioned Winston by name. They called
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  Speaker 1: him a certain politician in their talks with m Fat
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  Speaker 1: and on social media, and then the ambassador gave this
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  Speaker 1: little zinger on the social media. The ambassador said about Winston,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a statement says more about the person than makes it,
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  Speaker 1: That makes it than anything or anybody else. That was
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  Speaker 1: subtle dig wasn't it. All of this did not deter Winston,
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  Speaker 1: who doubled out and said he was defending democracy, which
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  Speaker 1: is fine. As I said before, the Green MP was
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  Speaker 1: being very interrupted in the House and you can do
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  Speaker 1: that without that, you can actually defend democracy, though Winston,
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  Speaker 1: without sounding like an ignorant, grumpy old man. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what I think Winston should be most ashamed of. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a clue about this MP. He didn't know
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  Speaker 1: this MP has been in New Zealand's since he was eight,
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  Speaker 1: that he's grown up in New Zealand, he's been educated
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  Speaker 1: in New Zealand. He knows in New Zealand all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. He doesn't want to go back to where
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  Speaker 1: he came from because as far as he's concerned, he
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  Speaker 1: comes from here. So that was just an ignorant dig
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  Speaker 1: and it's up there with Paul Henry who asked for
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  Speaker 1: a more New Zealand Governor General when the Governor General
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  Speaker 1: he was talking about, Onion such Anan was born and
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  Speaker 1: raised here, had the most amazing broad Kiwi accent and
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  Speaker 1: had even been the president of Rugby League. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get more New Zealand than that, Paul, And for both
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  Speaker 1: of these men. All they did was look at the
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  Speaker 1: color of the face and make a terrible assumption. And
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  Speaker 1: there is a word for that which I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to use. And the thing is, they should have been
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  Speaker 1: better prepped before they opened their big mouth and then
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  Speaker 1: stuck their foot in it. For more from Early Edition
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