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Ryan Bridge: It's three strikes for Chippy · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Three strikes for Old Chippy in the last seven days.
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  Speaker 1: Politics is all about perception, as everyone keeps saying, and
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  Speaker 1: the perception of his last time on the ninth floor
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  Speaker 1: was bad for three reasons. Crime they were too soft, spending,
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  Speaker 1: too much waste and debts, too much of that with
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  Speaker 1: nothing to show for it. All of this fed into
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  Speaker 1: the cost of living crisis right basically, labor was too
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  Speaker 1: loose on the purse strings and the gang's too heart
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  Speaker 1: on business and Middle New Zealand. Yesterday, Hipkins stood up
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  Speaker 1: in Parliament argued for shortest sentences. For some MPs, this
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  Speaker 1: is the gun gesture Gate, the Hucker sideshow, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it. Arguing for a reduced sentence from
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  Speaker 1: twenty one days to one was probably ill advised no
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  Speaker 1: matter where you sit on the actual debate. Politically, for Chippy,
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of your average voter, it was a
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  Speaker 1: bad move. Arguing for a ninety five percent discount on
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  Speaker 1: sentencing just plays into a narrative they ought to avoid,
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  Speaker 1: like the plague that was Strike three. Strike two, who
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  Speaker 1: came earlier in the day. On debt, he refused to
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  Speaker 1: commit to the debt ceiling of fifty percent of GDP.
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  Speaker 1: It's the sacred threshold that Treasury warns we just shouldn't cross.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same threshold even Grant Robertson said we shouldn't cross,
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  Speaker 1: the same threshold even Barbed from Accounts said we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: cross a day earlier. So now National can run around
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  Speaker 1: till the elections screaming debt monster till they're blue in
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  Speaker 1: the face, and they won't be wrong until he commits otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Strike one, of course, came courtesy of the Greens last week,
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  Speaker 1: the Mad Hatter alternative Budget, the plan so toxic it
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  Speaker 1: had killed growth like round up on your weeds. Chippy
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  Speaker 1: first said he hadn't read it, which no one believed.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said he'd read it and wouldn't rule anything out,
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  Speaker 1: so he might allow some or all of the roundup
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  Speaker 1: to be sprayed on our economic prosperity. Then he says
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  Speaker 1: some of the stuff was bad, some of it was okay,
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  Speaker 1: but still not committing to anything. Obviously, this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the high time mark on a Green Party
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  Speaker 1: negotiation position post election, and most of it will never
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  Speaker 1: see the light of day and actually happen in the
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  Speaker 1: same way the Privileges Committee thing is not that big
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  Speaker 1: of a deal to most voters and doesn't reflect their
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice policies. But if politics is about perception
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  Speaker 1: and perception is reality, it's three own goals in a week,
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  Speaker 1: three strikes for Chippy. For more from Early Edition with
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