Chris Hipkins

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455 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #47 Chris Hipkins · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

And that just simply wasn't true.

That inflation happened all the way around the world.

And so now they're so keen to stick with that story that they created, they're not willing to do things in New Zealand that support people through this next spike in inflation that we're seeing.

And a lot of that is driven offshore.

But the current government are wedded to the view that it's all down to New Zealand government decisions.

And that's going to inflict a lot of pain on a lot of people.

I totally agree with that.

Look, I, I still like to go and do my own shopping and I do it at Pack and Save in Upper Hutt.

And I've noticed a difference in the last two or three years.

There's always been families who have lived pretty close to the edge in terms of being able to balance their budgets.

Then I've watched them in the supermarket and they'll get to the checkout and they might put back a bottle of wine that they had for a Friday night treat, or they might put back some chocolate or some ice cream or whatever.

Now they're putting back stuff that's pretty basic.

You know, they'll be putting back a packet of Weet-Bix in order to make things add up on the grocery tally or a block of cheese or a block of butter.

And that's a real sign for me that things have changed even more in the last few years.

So, yep, people were getting to the checkout and being really careful, you know, about making sure that it stacked up.

But there's more people now.

It's not that they're not being careful.

It's just that they, even just for the basics, they can't make that stack up.

So I still try and get out and about to see as much of that firsthand as I can, because I realize as a politician, you can live in a little bit of a bubble.

You can be removed from that.

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