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Ryan Bridge: Buckle up; Luxon's going rogue · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Buckle up. New Zealand Christopher Luxen is officially going rogue.
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  Speaker 1: The risk when making constitutional policy pronouncements ninety two days
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  Speaker 1: out from an election, blindsiding your colleagues and diverting attention
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  Speaker 1: from your key messaging is that you might look erratic
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  Speaker 1: at best. Voters might see this as a distraction play.
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  Speaker 1: They might see this as a means to regain the oxygen,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not something that anyone's actually asking for. The
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  Speaker 1: top seven things voters care about in the Lates Hipsos
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  Speaker 1: poll aris follows in order one inflation sixty two percent,
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  Speaker 1: two health thirty eight percent, Three economy thirty four percent, Housing, unemployment, poverty, petrol.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what's not in the top twenty mmp The twentieth
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  Speaker 1: line item is defense slash foreign affairs slash terrorism at
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  Speaker 1: two percent, so two fits of bugger all people want
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  Speaker 1: them to be talking about the electoral system. It's like
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  Speaker 1: somebody putting creed on the jukebox and wondering why everyone's
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  Speaker 1: stops dancing. It's a big call. It's risky business. The
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  Speaker 1: problems are twofold one. It'll never happen because it's not
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  Speaker 1: even national policy. And even if it was won't get
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  Speaker 1: support from other parties to pass now. Not being able
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  Speaker 1: to do what you say you want to do when
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  Speaker 1: you're the Prime minister could be seen as weakness. Two
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  Speaker 1: and most importantly, you risk pissing off your co workers.
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  Speaker 1: They looked a mixed of confused, bewildered and frustrated yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: They've now spent an entire week walking back and explaining
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  Speaker 1: things their boss is saying in public. There are about
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  Speaker 1: twelve weeks now until advance voting opens. The polling companies
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  Speaker 1: will be on the blower today and if there's no
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  Speaker 1: MMP bump or even a dip, the rogue agent may
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  Speaker 1: yet be put out in the cold. For more from
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