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Andrew Dickens: Why don't National and ACT face the same pressures as Labour? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Labour finally released their fiscal plan on the weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to say it was much anticipated. Commentator after
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  Speaker 1: commentator for weeks now have been demanding it. Come on, Labour,
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  Speaker 1: where's your numbers? Where's your numbers? And now it's being dissected,
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  Speaker 1: and mostly, of course, by the current coalition parties, etc.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Where's Nationals' numbers? Why don't they
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  Speaker 1: get the same sort of pressure about this sort of stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I know they're in government, so we kind of know
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing anyway, but they don't get the same pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And how about ACT? Where's ACT's number? Yesterday, I was
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  Speaker 1: talking to David Seymour on the show, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: what spending are you going to have to cut to
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  Speaker 1: afford the loss of revenue from the KiwiSaver tax exemption?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, well, enough. And don't worry, my fiscal
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  Speaker 1: plan is forthcoming. We'll bring it on. What's source for
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  Speaker 1: the goose is source for the gander. I would like
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  Speaker 1: to see these fiscal plans, please. Meanwhile, I bumped into
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  Speaker 1: Jenny Marcroft at a Sunday market in the weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to her about all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 1: I asked her, where are you going to be on
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  Speaker 1: the list? She has no idea. She's waiting. We're waiting.
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  Speaker 1: I say this because it's only 32 days until the election.
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  Speaker 1: Advanced voting in New Zealand begins in 21 days. Overseas
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  Speaker 1: voting begins in 16 days. We don't have nationals fiscal plan.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have acts fiscal plan. And remember, part of
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  Speaker 1: those days are weekends and rugby tests and all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of stuff when we're not thinking about it. I just
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  Speaker 1: feel I felt like this election campaign has been going forever.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, a whole lot of vital
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  Speaker 1: information is being withheld as the election becomes ever closer.
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