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The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All
the best, but's from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on News
Talk zed BE and a Sillier package I am Glenhart today. Yes,
we're left wondering about the state of the labor leadership again.
Andrew Costa speaking of sort of political personalities, he's changing
jobs Trump. There are any more personality based personalities than
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Trump and Tony Armstrong. He's not in New Zealand personality,
He's an Australian personality and he's haiding up as well.
But before any of that, Tory Fano, Yes, another personality
who's centainly been in the gun lately.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So for what I think is the fourth time in
a week we've heard from Torri far Now, which is
a problem in itself because in the third interview or
possibly the fourth she was given as she reveals that
originally she thought MIAs flew below the radar, so in
her ongoing quest not to fly below the radar, she
also reveals in her third possibly fourth interview that the
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advice she has been getting about all the trouble she's
found herself in has come from her friends, many of
whom worked for Are you ready for it? Just cinda
a dern say no more now. The original interview was
with z B that was her I Sold my Car interview.
Her next interview was with Stuff that was the Stuff interview,
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Stuff claiming it was an exclusive, despite the fact it
wasn't and we knew it wasn't because they asked about
her car and they couldn't have known about the car
without the ZB interview, which was, as far as I
can tell, not an exclusive either, because she does a
fairly regulus lot on ZB and Wellington. The third interview
was on The Telly, where she confessed the sold car
story was in fact made up but taken out of context,
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despite the fact she had raised it or by herself
having done the Telly. She seems to have wandered off
and done a podcast, which is where she raised the
fact she had done the tally but the tally hadn't
gone so well. The podcast and the Telly, by the way,
were at no times claimed to be exclusives, but she
did raise the bit where she seems to get her
advice from Jessinda's mates. Of course, much earlier than this,
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she should have stopped digging and basically tried to get
back down below the radar, because I'm not sure if
j Cinda's friends have told her this, but she's making
a spectacular dick of herself and dragging the city's reputation
down with her. Now it's a very very good lesson
and why some people simply are not suited for one
public life and two leadership. Now, without being too unkind,
it would appear she struggles to run her own life
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far less a whole city's, and she's also has that
suspect skill in choosing friends clearly. So four interviews down,
we now know more about Tory than anyone ever would
have wanted. And I'm not sure even stuff now would
want to follow up to call it another exclusive. And
if we have learned anything, it's that it's not hard
to see why the capital is in the state it's in.
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It's not hard to sympathize whether fellow council is either.
Must be a nightmare dealing with this. And if the
central government woke up today and decided that Diane Kelviot
was right, and an administrator might be a good idea.
I don't know how many people would be left objecting
to that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I think didn't we all agree ages ago that
that's the best way to run councils. We should start
doing the whole vote for them thing and just have
people who actually know what they're doing be in charge
of them. Rewrapped, Can labor find somebody who knows what
they're doing to be in charge of them for all?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Chris Hipkins, of course, suffering the fate of many a
leader who's lost an election. At the moment, he's stuck
in that no man's land where a lot of what
you say is irrelevant people don't want to hear from you.
And now the polls are turning, of course, the government
is getting popular based on the simple trick that what
you were handed was a mess and a lot of
stuff needs to be changed. And the stuff that needs
to be changed was of course delivered to them by
Chris Hipkins, who can't hide from the calamity that it's
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turned out to be. Mind you. Peter Dutton in Australia
not so long ago, he was seen by many as
unelectable and yet checked the polls. He's not only in
the race, but if in an early vote was called today,
which it won't be for obvious reasons, he could well win. Anyway,
Old chippies in London at the moment, we're in Britain
at least looking for tips from the British Labor Party.
Now here's the problem with the British Labor Party. They
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didn't win. The Conservatives lost because they've been in power
for years, got lazy and complacent in time kills or governments.
Labour weren't clever or original or strategic. They just basically
weren't the incumbents. They've also turned out to be sleazy,
having taken money from donors for clothing and glasses and
apartments in New York. But if there's a lesson for
the chipster it might be in their tax policies. They
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are of course looking to tax people more. One of
the changes is the so called non dom regime. Now
it's those sort of changes that Knight Frank this week
have found in their latest report are putting the ultra
wealthy off Britain. The ultra wealthy in sixty three percent
of them are now looking to leave the country. There
are seventy four thousand ultra wealthy in Britain, up from
sixty eight thousand last year. Not only do a lot
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of them want to leave, many more claim they would
never have come to Britain in the first place if
they had known they were going to be targeted by tax.
The places they're looking to head to are Monaco, Italy,
Switzerland and Dubai. And that's the lesson for hipkins. The
wealthy are mobile, but the wealthier needed and needed, especially
in places like New Zealand. So the hoper is the
visit might see the penny drop. His own plans for
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more tax are dead on arrival. Capital gains and wealth
taxes are the lazy man's approach to economic policy. Good
leaders work that out. He shouldn't need a trip to
the other side of the world to stumble over the obvious.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But at least he can say that he was there
when Sekirestano said that they need to return the sausages
and gaza. So it's pretty great day to say that, yes,
I was there on sausage day. Right. So it's a
goodbye to Andrew cost As Police Commissioner, but hello to
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Andrew cast As the head of Social Investment. I don't
know what that means.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Micup soften thoughts on cost a difficult role in difficult times.
You can't knock his commitment to the profession great into
your questions. Thank you very much, Mike. The damaged cost
are allowed to happen with the acceptance of the entitlement
some sectors of society believe they had. We'll take generations
to unpick Mike. Andrew Cost is just another victim left
bobbing in the wake of battleship destroyer hms Adern. Yeah,
more to say on that after what I did find
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interesting yesterday. He was a fusive lux and was effusive
and once again got arced up with the media, which
I think in to defend the media just briefly they did.
I mean, there's a lot of people who criticized, including
myself criticized Coster. But what I've never really understood, and
I maybe it's just I'm not that sort of person,
is how you can be one person to somebody and
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somebody completely different to somebody else. Because in a job
of being the police commissioner and having that many years experience,
you must know what works and what doesn't and when
somebody comes to you and goes, hey, I want to
try this. You know in your heart that it's not
going to work, and yet you still hang out in
the job and deliberatey each day, and it's the weirdest thing.
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You go home at the end of the day and
you go, how is your daying, Well, it's another crap
day because I'm being instructed to do the wrong thing
by idiots that don't know what they're doing. And then
you go back next day for more. How do you
explain that?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Q just hundreds of people texting and to say that
most of us go to jobs that and do things
that we'd rather not do. But that's why it's a
job and not just fun times, and that Mike isn't
a position where what he does is fun times. Not
that I'm saying I'm not having fun times.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It's all rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Now. It's hard to know sometimes whether Trump is having
a fun time or a terrible time, or what kind
of time he's having. It's also sometimes it's hard to
know exactly what it is that he's talking about and
what he was supposed to be talking about.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Trump is out in Georgia today, made us through it yesterday.
I'll come to that in a second. But unfortunately in
Georgia today he had a chart with them. You know
my all time favorite chart in history, right, I haven't chart.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That's is my all time favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I love that. Is it around?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Is it around? I love that chart. I sleep with
that chart every night.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I kiss it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I love it because that chart saved my life.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I looked at the right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
If I didn't look to the right, I wouldn't be
here with you today. I guarantee you that.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yesterday, he said, John d you're thinking of moving some
of their production to Mexico. He said of John Dea
moved to Mexico, and I put a two hundred percent tarafon,
just like that, instant policy. But the funny thing was,
yesterday I was reading some analysis and here's what makes
this race so interesting. Cn N no Less said, when
he's cogent and he argues on the economy, which that
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wasn't an example of. But when he's cogent and he
argues on the econom me he's winning. And when CNN
can see that a lot more people.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Today he said he was going to ban sale steel
sales to Japan, whereas yesterday he was saying he was
going to revitalize US, the U S Steel industry, Which
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
When I quote seeing n the words were when he's cogent,
he cuts through.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Sorry, that was my fault. A faithful Texter once again
came to the party to correct me on that I
had read the headline Trump wants to stop in Z's steel.
Sorry a US steel sale to Japan. But he wasn't
talking about selling steel to Japan. He was talking about
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US steel the entity. He didn't want to sell that
to Japan. You can see how as easy it is
to get confused, so I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, it's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Right. Let's finish up with a little bit of Australian media.
Watch why because the host of the show watches Australian media.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Now listen just briefly, Guy Yesterday in Australia does breakfast
television for the ABC. One of the guys who hosted
the ABC's Ago we have in the program periodically Michael Roland.
Nice guy anyway is a guy read his sports guy
called Tony Armstrong. Tony Armstrong sort of came out of
nowhere three or four years ago. They thought he was
quite cool. They hired and he reads the sport. Three
and a half years in, he's quit. And this is
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what this is everything that's wrong with the media these days.
It's not hard to be successful. And I'm a living,
breathing example that all you gotta do is turn up.
You don't have to be that good. I'm not that good.
I'm not that brilliant, I'm not that exceptional. All I
do is turn up every morning. And I've been doing
it for a long time. And after a while, you going, ah,
good old Mike. You don't like me any more than
you used to like me, but you go, good old Mike.
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At least he turns up. This guy Tony Armstrong, he
was in the job for three and a half years.
I mean, for God's sake, three and a half years.
Any quote unquote feels like a zombie. It's the early
morning els oh, really gets to you. After a while,
I mean, what's the matter with you? And if you
if you don't believe me after sixteen years, look at Glenn.
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Glenn's been here for forty seven years, getting up in
the early hours of the morning since just after the war,
and every morning, and no one likes Glenn. But we
go good old Glenn. He's still turning up every morning
and that's the key to success. So all of these
people in the media these days who think they've been
serving the long time for three and a half years
or four, who's been on the job for six years, Now,
that's not a thing.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's like a familiar smell, isn't it. It doesn't have
to be a nice smell. But okay, I mean I
wasn't talking about me specifically, then maybe I am.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But I mean it's what happened to people who actually
want to come to work and enjoy what they do,
and the hours aren't really the hour. I mean, who
cares what the hours are? And you don't after three
and a half years them if you like zombie so
I'll have to quit. Then what's he going to do?
The well working for the ABC immediately that said, that's
fine of another job. But that's you know, just what
happened to a bit of stoicism, a bit of determination,
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a bit of professionalism, a bit of consistency, a bit
of loyalty, a bit of get off your ass and
do something half decent, for that's how you get enjoyment.
See how Mike Seas I think people just.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Get themselves into trouble if they think about things too much.
I've always made my business and never think about anything
too hard and just be happy with my life, and
that's how Gleam sees it. I'll see some more stuff
right here with you again tomorrow.
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