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Ryan Bridge: Can we rule out a NZ First/Labour coalition? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Can you trust Winston Peters not to go with Labor
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  Speaker 1: next year? That is the question on everybody's lips, and
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  Speaker 1: the answer is no, you can't. He hasn't ruled it out.
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  Speaker 1: And remember you will remember that he went with Desinda
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, even though National got a high proportion
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  Speaker 1: of the vote. Labour has not ruled Winston out. Winston
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  Speaker 1: has not ruled Labor out. Winston has ruled Chippy out.
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  Speaker 1: So all that means is we could see a leadership
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  Speaker 1: swap in the last seven weeks of the campaign, bug
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  Speaker 1: of the unions and even during negotiations. All these things
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  Speaker 1: are possible. Hopkins is a party man and if the
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  Speaker 1: choice was opposition for his caucus or the Treasury benches,
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  Speaker 1: he would fall on his sword. So it's a live scenario.
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  Speaker 1: Is Labor and New Zealand first? If they, I should
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  Speaker 1: say Labor and New Zealand first get enough to form
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  Speaker 1: a coalition together, wouldn't Winston prefer that to another threesome
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  Speaker 1: on the right. He hates Chippy because of COVID and
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  Speaker 1: what is a woman malfunction at that press conference. But
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  Speaker 1: the party's been working hard to shake the overly wokey
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  Speaker 1: dopey vibe since then. Also, Winston doesn't like Seymour, and
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  Speaker 1: if there was a chance for him to extract big
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  Speaker 1: spending policies, some regional funding, you know they love that
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  Speaker 1: at New Zealand first manufacturing energy deals, more gold card benefits,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be, I reckon he would go for it.
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  Speaker 1: The scenario becomes much less likely if the Greens and
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  Speaker 1: whatever might be left of Tapati Mardi needing to prop
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  Speaker 1: them up. He hates them much more than he hates
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  Speaker 1: Seymour and would look stupid going into government with a
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  Speaker 1: green handshake and a hongy. The rule with Winston is
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  Speaker 1: pretty simple. All options are on the table, and this
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  Speaker 1: time next year, as summer approaches in the weather warms,
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  Speaker 1: will be staking out his beach house and the Crowbar
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