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National’s mouthpiece on manufacturing doesn’t like details
Written By: - Date published: 2:10 pm, June 12th, 2014 - 116 comments
David Farrar in his usual burst of hypocrisy and curious selectiveness about detailed numbers is proclaiming a headline rise in manufacturing. As is usual he is only interested in the top level numbers and doesn’t provide a link to even the summary data. I guess that is because they are rather depressing for his 9th floor of the Beehive view of employment and wage packets, which is what most voters expect from growth. There has been a slight decline in manufacturing jobs while we have a 11% growth in “manufacturing”.
Murders out west
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, June 12th, 2014 - 204 comments
Four alleged murders out west in the past month have caused a great deal of soul searching. What is going wrong? What can we do to prevent any further tragic loss of life?
Farrar lies again
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, June 9th, 2014 - 61 comments
For the second time in as many weeks, David Farrar has lied to his readers over at kiwiblog.
David Farrar badly needs night school
Written By: - Date published: 3:08 pm, June 6th, 2014 - 45 comments
In Kiwiblog this morning, David Farrar appeared to be running a 9th floor pre-pump for John Banks to resign. But I was rather incredulous when I read this “I don’t think the Judge has actually helped the Government by delaying the decision on entering a conviction. Now that it is the Judge’s role to care about the impact on the Government.”. Huh? DPF badly needs to go back to do some adult education. Perhaps to night school?
Farrar, TV3, coat tails and MMP
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 pm, June 4th, 2014 - 196 comments
David Farrar and then TV3 today get their analysis of Labour’s position on electoral law reform horribly wrong. Are we going to have to put up with this during election year?
Why does David Farrar hate Winston Peters so much?
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 pm, May 29th, 2014 - 207 comments
David Farrar has quite a thing for Winston Peters…
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