The podcast features a critique of National and Labour's budget proposals, highlighting a lack of cost of living relief, while defending New Zealand's nuclear-free stance and dismissing debates on unelected council voting as irrelevant to public concerns.
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I regretted coming to your budget drinks, can I tell you this? I haven't even told you this in person, and now I'm telling you this on air. So what happened, Ginny? What happened? Was I did a circuit of budget drinks, so I went to the Act Party's budget drinks, and they were actually very classy. They had a gin bar and quite a large room. It was quite a normal temperature. And then I went up to Mark Mitchell's drinks, and um it was a small room because I've forgotten how low the ceilings are in the beehive. And so it's just sounding like a joke, and then I went to the second one. This is like a good uh and I was immediately disappointed because it was hot in there. Really hot. Very hot. And there was no gin bar. No, and it had a five eleven. No, it was like a the student party vibe because when I arrived, they were like, Oh, I hear the yeah, yeah, let me get you a drink here. Oh, we've only got tequila left.
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satirical commentary on political hospitality
Pollies: National's Mark Mitchell and Labour's Ginny Andersen on Budget 2026, NZ's nuclear stance, and the ban on non-elected council members votingSpotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
