Pollies: National's Mark Mitchell and Labour's Ginny Andersen on election campaigning and policy announcements, emergency declarations
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Has election campaigning started too early?
It's time for Politics Wednesday, and we find to join us this morning, Ginny Anderson, Mark Mitchell. Good morning to you both. Morning, Mike. Morning, Ginny. Morning, Mark. Morning, Mike. I'm sorry, what were you saying, Ginny?
I just said good morning to you, Mike. How are you?
Thank you, Ginny. I'm really well.
I had a bottle of wine to give you this morning, and I had to turn around and come back. Oh, I know. I'm living with the pain of getting up early for no reason.
Well, there's no reason... Getting up for no reason. No one gets up for no reason, Ginny. You're in an election campaign. You're on the pathway to electoral victory, potentially, to run this country and become a minister of some sort.
Can I quote you on that? Can I quote you on that?
No, I'm just talking theoretically. That's your reason for getting out of bed in the morning.
Oh, right, right. Sorry, sorry. I thought you were prophesying or something like that. No, can I just... But I did have a bottle of wine to give you. I had a very nice bottle of Pellicer Pino. And I had a bottle of Mark as well.
Ring, um... Who do you ring? FedEx? DHL? Ring DHL. Courier it to me. DHL. DHL. Put it on.
Come and pick it up. Put it on the one hour. Get it on the one hour and see if I can take it home with me.
I am. We should have, but we should. The reason for this is Jenny was coming in this morning, as was Mark. But Mark, once again, we've been trying to arrange this for 17 different times. Every time, Mark, you insist on calling a state of emergency, and you've got to stop it.
It keeps getting in the way, doesn't it? No, we'll make it work. We'll definitely make it work.
Now, what it was, to be fair, a group of people paid money to come and watch this show and to watch this segment. Now, at what point, Mark, do they have a legal case that says we gave a lot of money to a charity and we've never seen the prize?
Well, the prize also is that I'm taking them out for breakfast, so we can still do that, but they're huge fans of yours. I know, I'm not going to tell you, your head will be too big, it won't fit through the door, but you know that you're pretty popular in the country, so when I do fundraisers and things like that, you'd be surprised how many people say, hey, can you take us into the studio to meet Mike Hoskin? I said, I don't even go into the studio myself.
You're like trading Mike. Mark's trading Mike. He's using me. That's exactly what I said, Jenny. He's using me. I wouldn't be that bold. I don't know if I would do that.
It's very bold. It is. Anyway, we'll get there eventually. A couple of quick ones for you, Jenny, so let's not bog us down in a detailed answer, but just broadly speaking, that thing that National announced on Sunday, more trade, more partners, roughly speaking, you're not against that, are you?
Not at all, not at all. It seems like a good idea. But it seems a bit light on you. They're all good things to go off and try and do. Yes, we agree. And I look forward to seeing the fruition of that. So, yeah, we're totally supportive of increasing trading partners. It's a good idea.
I understand this morning that you guys have also been briefed by National on their social media regulation and you've rejected it. Is that true?
No, I don't think that's true. I think Reuben Davidson has seen a paper saying It seems like there is division within the government on that in terms of who is supporting it and who's not. So I think the paper's been withdrawn from the last that I saw.
OK, yeah, I understand that because, of course, that'll be sort of a free speech thing for somebody like ACT.
What concerns do voters have over political policies?
But broadly speaking, you're not against the idea of some sort of ban on social media, I take it?
No, we're in favour. And in fact, it's looking like one of those ones where the government will need Labour if they want to pass legislation because both ACT and New Zealand First don't seem like they're supportive.
Yeah, that's a good thing because it's about kids and keeping them safe. So that's quite good to hear.
Do you worry though, Mark, and I talked to Erica a little bit about this, but I mean, you've seen what's happened in Australia.
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