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Andrew Dickens: The quiet war between David Seymour and Winston Peters · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now, don't you hate it when the kids fight. There's
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  Speaker 1: a quiet war happening right now between David Seymour and
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  Speaker 1: Winston Peters, the coalition partners. It's kicked up a little lately,
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  Speaker 1: both boys playing games as they try to win the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of the public and then win votes, which will
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  Speaker 1: be all important when we finally go back to the
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  Speaker 1: polls in twenty twenty six. This, of course, is the
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  Speaker 1: problem when you're a minor party. You need to make
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  Speaker 1: noise to be noticed. You can get swamped so very
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  Speaker 1: very easily. And the big noise for a while has
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  Speaker 1: been David Seymour, who took conversations by the throat with
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  Speaker 1: his treaty principles act love it or hate it, you're
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  Speaker 1: all talking about it, which is all a politician wants.
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  Speaker 1: Last week I said, when I was doing the Drive show,
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  Speaker 1: I did an editorial that said that Winston's been a
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  Speaker 1: good boy while he's held the deputy prime minister job,
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  Speaker 1: but that's coming to an end in a few months.
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  Speaker 1: He does a swap seat with David Seymour. That will
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  Speaker 1: free Winston's hand. You're going to hear a lot more
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  Speaker 1: from him. And look at that he started this week.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he's taken over the railways. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: be seen as a savior and a solver. The Herald
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  Speaker 1: editorial this morning calls the move a Peter's power play.
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  Speaker 1: Seymour and Peters have very different views of the railways.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Winston blames past privatizations. David wants to
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  Speaker 1: privatize forty nine percent of it. Winston, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: also has a treaty principal strategy. Just like David. He's
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  Speaker 1: looking to cancel the legislation that already exists that prescribes
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  Speaker 1: how the treaty veigels its way into our legislation. It's
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  Speaker 1: got a much better chance of success than Seymour's Act
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  Speaker 1: and referendum, but so far it's flowed under the radar
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  Speaker 1: since the election. That hacks Winston off. And it's coming
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to be free to promote it. So
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hear a lot more about that soon.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got to remember the difference between Winston and David.
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  Speaker 1: Winston is an old school conservative and closer really to
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  Speaker 1: those old fashioned socialists we used to know that cared
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  Speaker 1: about the working class, but it didn't have much truck
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  Speaker 1: with all that sort of liberal stuff. You know those guys.
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  Speaker 1: David Seymour, though he's part of the New Conservatism and
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  Speaker 1: believes in capitalism, markets and winner takes all, Winston doesn't
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  Speaker 1: believe that they are not naturally compatible. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a good thing that they're starting to fight, even
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  Speaker 1: if they are fighting in public. The next eighteen months
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  Speaker 1: looks to be increasingly entertaining, and that is also a
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  Speaker 1: good thing, because you know, what are we about here?
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  Speaker 1: A contest of ideas. For more from Early Edition with
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