Hutt South

What do you see when you see the Labour's financial plans? What do you think?

Yeah, so, I mean, I am running Chris Bishop's campaign out in Hutt South, so obviously that comes with, you know, that's clearly my political view.

I think the thing with Labour's finances that I look for is I think they've dug themselves a bit of a hole because they have, they know, and, you know, Hipkins was very clear on it early in the year, that one of the bits of feedback they got, you know, after their loss in 2023 is that they weren't trusted on spending.

And so they made a big deal about we're not sort of putting numbers out until the budget.

Friday face-off, Justin Lester, Bridget Morton.

Justin, I want to start with you on this.

Hutt South poll shows Ginny Anderson leading Chris Bishop by 42 to 30.

This is the latest poll.

They've got five extra list MPs on top of that.

So, so you, you're really in trouble, um, if they start, if they, if they hold on, it's this sort of perverse situation where they, they actually want to lose some electorates, um, if they're gonna get in their, their list MPs, and we're talking about Nicola Willis, we're talking about Paul Goldsmith, Jerry Brownlee, possibly Chris Bishop if he loses Hutt South.

So these are heavy hitters.

National does not want to lose that talent, which is why we're hearing Sir John Key come out and say, "Don't do this," and Christopher Luxon calling it insanely stupid because they are, I think, really worried about the strategy, um, sinking into the wider electorate and people getting hold of it and thinking, "Actually, we're being clever here," a- and this could help tip the, tip the balance and, and mean a right-wing government, which it would.

That would be a huge thing to happen, and it would mean that there were no sort of, uh, MPs like Nicola Willis or Paul Goldsmith, for example, who are di- uh, elected directly off the list.

And possibly even Chris Bishop if he doesn't win his quite marginal Hutt South seat, right?

Correct.

So I think, I mean, this is, this is something to test with, uh, listeners.

if they're going to get in their list MPs.

And we're talking about Nicola Willis, we're talking about Paul Goldsmith, Gerry Brownlee, possibly Chris Bishop if he loses Hutt South.

So these are heavy hitters.

National does not want to lose that talent, which is why we're hearing Sir John Key come out and say, don't do this, and Christopher Luxon calling it insanely stupid, because they are, I think, really worried about the strategy sinking into the wider electorate and people getting hold of it and thinking, actually, we're being clever here.

And have a chat to Ginny Anderson, Labour candidate.

She's in the running for Hutt South.

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Just before, because we're going to have a chat to Ginny Anderson, the candidate for Hutt South very shortly, but we did get a knock on the door from one of the candidates for our local electorate, Mount Albert, had a knock on the door from Kule Wong from the Opportunity Party.

Did you? So her and her husband and her dog were doing the rounds on our street and around Mount Albert, and it seems like she is going pretty hard in that particular electorate.

Nice to have you in the studio.

And Chris Bishop, National's Hutt South MP, Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure.

Chris, good morning.

Good morning.

So being able to speak to people about Labour's practical solutions to bring down their power bills, their grocery bills, health care costs, public transport costs, you know, I'm enjoying that.

But what's the vibe? People are apprehensive, apprehensive about further job cuts, apprehensive about the young people leaving our city, and I see my job as trying to engender a bit of hope that a change of government could address those things.

Chris Bishop, you've got a latest poll result that didn't look too rosy for you on the Hutt South poll.

Ginny Anderson, 42%.