Raw Politics: Winston’s late insurance policy?

First revealed OCT 6, 2023
Up to date 5 hours in the past

Election 2023

This week on the Uncooked Politics podcast: We ask if Covid and isolation has sucked the life out of Labour and Chris Hipkins’ marketing campaign, we surprise if fringe events may do a deal to ship their voters to NZ First and ask what’s been consuming Nationwide marketing campaign chair Chris Bishop.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins was caught in a resort room all week, watching the marketing campaign swirl round with out him. And NZ First was everybody’s focus – the Nationwide Celebration olive department, the wild TV interview and polling at 6 p.c.

Everybody’s assuming NZ First will get there now, above the 5 p.c threshold. However does it, too, want to succeed in out to smaller events? The panel debates whether or not a late deal is on the playing cards for the perimeter anti-vax, anti-mandate, pro-‘freedom’ events to ship their votes the way in which of Winston Peters’ get together to ensure no less than one automobile for his or her causes will get over the road?

We additionally talk about Peters’ traditionally off-form TV interview – with him desperately sending off warmth flares to distract Jack Tame’s query missiles – and scratch our heads on the unhinged-ness of the Nationwide Celebration marketing campaign chief’s response to Labour’s taunts over a cancelled leaders’ debate. 

That Q+A interview options on this week’s suggestions so that you can watch, learn or take heed to, in addition to an RNZ fact-check of nonsense figures utilized by Peters when speaking at public conferences about local weather change, and a Newsroom piece setting out a efficiency overview for Christopher Luxon.

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Suggestions:

Jo: Jack Tame’s peerless interview with Winston Peters on Q+A

Tim: Anneke Smith’s reality test on Winston Peters’ use of figures in discussing local weather change at public conferences

Marc: Tim Murphy’s model of a Nationwide Celebration efficiency overview for Christopher Luxon