Ryan Bridge: It's three strikes for Chippy

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 20, 2025 · 2m · transcript

Politics is all about perception and the perception of his last time on the ninth floor was bad for three reasons.

Crime - they were too soft.

Spending - too much waste.

And debt - too much with nothing to show for it.

All of this fed into the cost-of-living crisis.

Basically, Labour was too loose on the purse strings and the gangs, too harsh on businesses and middle New Zealand.

Yesterday, Hipkins stood up in the Parliament and argued for shorter sentences for some MPs after gun-gesture-gate.

Arguing for a reduced sentence from 21 days to 1 day was ill-advised.

No matter where you sit on the…