Mike Hosking
speaker
126,038 appearances
910 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard yesterday
Mike Hosking’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If I was generous, I would let him off, given he's got more portfolios than anyone else.
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But Paul Goldsmith has delivered to the Parliament the bit of legislation that will finally finish off the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
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He did it with a flourish of slightly embarrassing bonhomie.
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He said its delivery as being the delivery of a promise.
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The promise being we would get legislation in the House before the election.
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Technically, of course, then, he is correct.
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More realistically, it means nothing, given Parliament is finishing today and the legislation goes nowhere.
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Under a different set of circumstances, at a different time, in a different election campaign, this sort of thing might have mattered, the same way the Waitangi
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Tribunal review that will go nowhere would have mattered.
or the Mappas Medical School Review that will go nowhere would have mattered.
Saying stuff and delivering on it should matter
and this government's weakness has been talking up big games all over town and not quite getting them across the line.
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Reality though, it won't matter because in the grand scheme of things these issues are not in play
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for a majority of voters this time around.
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This time around, it is merely about the hole the government has been digging us out of.
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Did they do enough?
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Is the Labour damage repaired enough for you to believe that the current collective should be allowed to carry on?
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That is the beginning, the middle and the end of this election.
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Whether we have a BSA or not, we'll not shift one vote, not even mine.
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And I'm one of the more exercised on this particular issue.
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