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Ryan Bridge: Do people care about the suspended Te Pati Māori MPs? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Government debt is the worst it's been since the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: But today, two days out from a budget designed to
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  Speaker 1: fix it, our parliamentarians will be debating a hacker. The public,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think largely cares about this stuff. Pocketbook book
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  Speaker 1: politics always trumps theatrics, except if you're to Party Mardy.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how today's debate over the Privileges Committee report goes,
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  Speaker 1: and it could go on for a long time, to
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  Speaker 1: Party Marti wins a loss for them. In our Westminster system,
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  Speaker 1: what we might think of as a sanction or a
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  Speaker 1: punishment is to them a badge of honor. Already, they're
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  Speaker 1: well followed. Social media accounts are beating the drum of discontent.
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  Speaker 1: There are some who say that twenty one days is
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  Speaker 1: too harsh. People are comparing the hacker's and Debbie's gun
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  Speaker 1: thing to Brooks sea bomb, for example, They miss an
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  Speaker 1: important point. Both the sea bomb and the hacker were
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  Speaker 1: pre planned, choreographed stunts. The difference between the two is
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  Speaker 1: Brooke asked the clerk in advance of her stunt if
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  Speaker 1: she was allowed to use the word. The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 1: To Pati Marti did not. Brooks stunt did not disrupt
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  Speaker 1: a vote being taken in the House. The Mardi parties did.
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  Speaker 1: Voting is the essence of democracy, where the elected expressed
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  Speaker 1: the views of the electors us. It's Parliament's holy communion,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody has yet said sorry. That does not mean
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  Speaker 1: the punishment which a slim majority of government members voted for,
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  Speaker 1: is not overly harsh. The clerk reckons it is brownly
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  Speaker 1: clearly reckons it is. The opposition reckons it is. Does
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  Speaker 1: the punishment really fit the crime? That's the question? Or
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  Speaker 1: have standards slipped so badly? The House is such a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess that a precedent and a message needs to
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  Speaker 1: be sent to our parliamentarians. As I said, I think
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  Speaker 1: on the whole the public largely doesn't really care about
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. The question today is how long will national
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  Speaker 1: let this debate drag on with amendments and filibustering before
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  Speaker 1: a promise is reached. Winston and Seymour, they're your hardliners,
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  Speaker 1: of course, to Party Mali, your Greens, the your opposing
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  Speaker 1: hard liners of course. But for the bigger parties the
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  Speaker 1: risk is if you play politics over policy for too long,
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  Speaker 1: you look childish. The only winners from today's sideshow will
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  Speaker 1: be the minnos and of course well the losers, I
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  Speaker 1: should say, with the minnos will be the winners. The
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  Speaker 1: losers really will be the bigger parties and the rest
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