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July 7, 2024 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) You Have To Park Them Somewhere Too/Nobody Knows What the Speed Limit Is Anyway/Worrying Economic Signs/Tories Left Out In the Cold/So Where Was the Break Dancing?

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hi, good over there and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday.
All the best that's from the Mike Husking Breakfast on
Newstalks ed B in a sillier package, I am Glenn
Hart and today Andrew Dickens will guide us through the week.
Mike's on holiday, and Andrew wants a word about the
Auckland speed limit situation. The government says, put them up,
Council says no, there staying where they are. So we've

(00:48):
got a bit of a stash on our hands there.
Andrew's also a bit worried about all the upticking mortgage sales.
He has a little look at the UK election result
and I look back at the All Blacks game. It
was a big weekend all around. Really did the cook straight
fairies go anywhere?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now to the fairies? The fairy cancelation thing goes on straight.
In z the private operators of Bluebridge says demand is
up for their service since the grounding of the Outer Telly,
and in an interview with Business Test, they want to
know what's happening with Kiwi Row because they need to
know what's happening for their business. They need to know
whether perhaps they can pick up the sack of buy
more boats they do recoon there's a couple of secondhand
ships around the world that might be suitable for the run,

(01:30):
which of course we've been told there aren't, but there
we are. Meanwhile, I felt called Brendan Harday at Interest
dot co dot nz has been looking at various opinions
from interested parties, and he says, it ain't the ferries
that's the problem. It's the port. Remember the ferries are
the Ferraris and what we really needed was Corollas. But
a number of articles looked at the cost and found
that in fact, the ferries are a hell of a
bargain from Korea. At five hundred and fifty mil the

(01:52):
cost per toon of these boats is more than half
the cost per ton of land construction in this country.
And they float. You know, the Koreans really sharpen their
pencils for us. The plans also show the fairies were
only twenty percent of the cost of the project. It's
these ports that make up eighty percent. It's the port's

(02:13):
costs that are madly escalating, just like all construction in
this country. The port side upgrade escalated in priced to
two point five billion dollars. That is double the cost
of the Transmission Gully motorway, which is twenty seven k
of road. Why because the project ires said you had
to have one hundred year resiliency. That meant that the

(02:36):
port at Kaifaraphara was going to be extended huge amounts
of land reclamation seventy meter deep piling to make a
cope with a shake. The plans also combined the Blue
Bridge Kiwi rail operations and all the terminals were gold
plated as well. And in fact they're suggesting that the
wiser course was to cancel the ports until better times
and not to cancel the ferries, because no one can

(02:58):
find anyone who really believes we're going to get a
better ferry deal than the one we had. But we
can sharpen our pencils on the ports.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now, I know. I mentioned last week that I've recently
been in bar and I took a faery in Bali
from Bali to New Zealem Long and they've got a
new ferry terminals in and it's so cool. It sort
of looks like a dragony thing. It's a I think
it's a dragon, got a big dragon looking head at
one end and a big tail at the other end.

(03:26):
This is a big building I'm talking about. I feel like,
although it is gold, it's not actually gold plated. I
feel like the probably didn't cost as much as ours
are going to. But yeah, maybe maybe I'm wrong. Maybe
I'm talking through a hole in my head wrap. So
the Auckland's Council divided over putting the speed limits back
up in spite of what the government wants them to do.

(03:49):
They've eventually said, nah, so.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I big, I'd keep your nose out of our business.
From the Orcland Council on Friday to the government, as
they voted by eighteen to three to reject the government's
policy on blanket speed limits, and it caused some to
wonder whether the Auckland Council were all left loving Wokesters
with rocks in their heads now. The three who sided
with the government were Wiamson, Walker and Stuart and they
have always been loyal National Party foot soldiers, particularly Marris Williamson.

(04:15):
But the government's argument was rejected by a fair number
of center right, non rational people like the mayor or
the deputy mayor, Desley and Christine Fletcher. You wouldn't call
any of them lefties. And there's a whole heap of
reasons they came to that decision, not least of which
it's their roads. If central government wants to tell councils
what to do with the roads that they've made the
ratepayers pay for, then perhaps the government might want to

(04:36):
help pay for them. The government can do what they
want with state highways. But the other big thing is
that the government is providing no evidence for the change
of policy. So they called the labor policy blanket speed limits,
which suggests it affects every speed limit in the land.
So I phoned some high up members of the NZTA
on Friday and said, is it a blanket speed limit thing?

(04:57):
And their reply was no, it's actually a very targeted
and specific set of speed limit rules and not a
blanket ruling at all. One former board member told me
he was on a dozen or so dangerous regional roads
that really need costs the repairs and realignments, but they
don't have the money. So until then, the cheapest remediation
is lowering the speed limit. The other three hundred or
so remaining scheduled speed limit reductions were outside schools normally

(05:20):
when the schools asked for them, and particularly rural schools
outside of town limits that were beside eighty or one
hundred K roads. They are dangerous. The schools us are
very specific, not a blanket speed limit reduction on all schools.
Many schools went in this, so the word blanket was
used to give the impression of some overreaching nanny states
slowing us all down. And that's called politics. Now the

(05:42):
question is we're slowing these speed downs reduced productivity? Well,
the average CBD speed in Auckland was nineteen k before
the changes. After the changes, it's still nineteen k, so
probably not. Now, you know what, I don't care. I
don't care about the speed limit changes. It barely affects
behavior who's had a ticket. We don't have enough cops

(06:04):
to keep the streets safe from real crime, let alone
policing people going thirty five in a thirty zone. And
what I do know is that it costs a lot
of money from the labor government to put new signs up,
and it will cost a lot of money to take
those new signs down and replace them with old new signs.
And in a time of austerity, it seems like a
bit of a wasteful use of taxpayers money for something

(06:27):
that really affects no one but makes for some good
talkback arguments. And dare I say it sounds a little
bit like virtue signaling.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, I mean it's not true that it doesn't affect anyone.
I mean, good luck to you. If you know what
you're speedling it, you're supposed to be keeping too. If
you're driving in Central Auckland these days, when I come
off the motorway, I've got to go forty, then I
turn a corner at two blocks down the road, and
then I've got to go thirty. Apparently this is and

(06:57):
remember this is at twenty four in the morning, not
that num bitter rewrapatively a bit of taste left in
the mouth of some people. Is the mortgage e sales
start to bite.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
So I mentioned the Morgan g sales. They're rising, market
expects are protecting their numbers will get worse from here
on out, because you know, the interest rates are not
getting any lower, and people are starting to hit what
I called earlier squeaky bum time We've got a Wellington
mortgage broker who has not to be named. This is
all one Roof said. The high cost of living, combined
with the thousands of job losses, particularly in Wellington and
the public sector, is resulting in forced sales. He says

(07:34):
it's likely people would still owe money to their lender
even after their house was sold. An uptick in forced
sales has not happened yet, but calls from people under
pressure to mortgage brokers and real estate agents had So
here's the funny odd thing. In a way, there's some
bargains out there which might be good for a first
home buyer, but at the same time their bargains on

(07:55):
top of heartache, which is not a nice thing either.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, and this is the real impact of the economic
strife we're in at the moment, isn't it. And I
rather ture or surely last week said that I'm immune
to it because I hadn't been taking any notice of it,
been on holiday for two weeks and didn't hear about
any of this stuff, so it wasn't affecting me. But
if I'd come back to discover that, you know, my
house was having to be sold out from under because

(08:19):
I can't make payments. Then that's a real effect of
hard times, isn't it. That didn't happen to me, but
it sounds like it might be happening to some people.
Rewrap right, it was real, Come up, it's time for
the Tories. On Friday, of course, as as the day,
the night progressed. Yeah, basically it was about as exactly

(08:42):
as bad as everybody said it was going to be.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
So the big headlines on Saturday morning after the British
election were all in bold type, were they not? Labor
landslide the worst Tory defeat in history, collapse everywhere, The
Dems revived, best result for third party since nineteen twenty three.
Labor dominant in Scotland. So yes, the Labor Party in
the UK will be dominant in the next parliament. Starma
will be the most powerful prime minister since Blair. The

(09:05):
vote was distributed right across the country. It's the biggest
party in England, Scotland and Wales. Which is the trick
to win an FPP elections. I forgot about that. It's
fun to have an FPP and figure out you've got
to get your votes everywhere. Four of the five Tory
prime minister's seats of the last fourteen years got lost,
Whitney made and headox Bridge Southwest and Norfolk. The Conservatives

(09:26):
have never been so marginal. The Conservatives have never been
more unimportant to British politics as they are right now.
It's a result that shouldn't have the New Zealand Labor
Party thinking oh, we might have a chance. But not
so fast there. Choppee Labor barely put on any vote
share at all. It went up by one to two

(09:46):
percent from lefty old Jeremy Corbyn back in twenty nineteen.
They didn't get new voters. No, this is just a
story about a Conservative collapse, and this is the story
of punishment for incompetence. And that's the same story that
wrecked the last Labor League government of New Zealand. They
got punished for incompetence. But look, it's also wanting to
conservatives like the National Party because you know, just because

(10:10):
you're the center right, it does not automatically mean you're
the best stewards of the economy. The Conservative Party in
Ingram proved that the Conservative Party's combination of austerity and
tax cuts at the wrong time and incompetence during COVID
and cronyism wrecked any support they had, so warnings for

(10:32):
all ps. By the way, Posy Parker Ramber Posy, she's
still for election. She got one hundred and ninety six
votes in her electorate. You'd think should probably get a
better result in his head, wouldn't you.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
You hear that in one hundred and ninety six? Do
you think he's going to say hundred nine six thousand, No,
one hundred ninety six couldn't happen to a nice.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Appusement the rerap.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Right, we're going to finish up here with the game. Well,
I didn't see any games of anything in the in
the weekend, but yeah, I didn't watch the All Blacks either.
It sounds like Andrew did.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
How about that All Black test day. I'm not really
a sports journalist, but it's such a story I suppose
I should comments. Well, look after it very long and
fevered debate and then a wait, we had Scott Robertson
finally as our coach, and so did the sun come out?
And did the Angels sing? And where we mireculs see
a better team than recent iterations? No, I think we'll
say we weren't. It was really tense. It was really nervy.

(11:24):
The English are quite good, aren't they strong at the breakdown?
They're able to run these days too. But we were
good too. We were good at the scrum and Talaya
and Savu Reese are so slippery that I've decided to
call them the eel twins. They appear to have soap
for skin. You just can't catch them. There were more
than a few mistakes where we'd line out throws, aimless
kicking and Damian McKenzie completely lost track of time, which

(11:47):
was interesting. There was the time on an excuse of rust.
But we've had four months of Super rugby, two weeks
of prep for the English. They've had one game against Japan,
it's the middle of their summer. They haven't played for
a while, so they could have been rusty as well.
And there were a few people on the old social
media who said, you can't help but think that if
Ian Foster was still in charge, will be moaning that

(12:09):
the Jungle drums would start there beat again. But poor
ov Fozzy had a very rough ride in his tenure,
despite the fact he took the all Backs to just
one point short of a World Cup title, and Scott
Hansen was saying just that this the other week, and
so I think the whole thing is a reminder that,
you know, coaches and managers are very, very important people,
but at the end of the day, it's the twenty
three players on the pitch that have to run around

(12:30):
and throw the ball that have to stand up to
be counted. This is a team sport and Razor is very,
very good and a breath of fresh air. But he
didn't prove to be the messiah. But his breath of
fresh air was his openness and frankness in the postmatch
interview on the field. Have you seen that? I have
not heard an all back coach be so open about

(12:51):
it for a long time, if ever, And I welcome that.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
But tell me, because I didn't see it and nobody's
mentioned it. I can't believe nobody's mentioned it because it's
the only thing I really wanted to know out of
the game if we won, which we did. Did did
Razor breakdance after the game or not? I feel like

(13:15):
he didn't because I haven't heard that he did, So
that's disappointing. That's a poor start to the season from Razor.
I mean, I know he won't but I thought you
did breakdancing. Maybe if he wins, the whole series have
to wait till next week. I'm billion hat you won't
catch me breakdancing, but then you won't catch me coaching

(13:39):
you know an important rugby team either, bring Jack any
rugby team, but I will coach you through another episode
of the Rewrap tomorrow. I'll see you then.

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