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The eru­dite David Far­rar has refused to buckle in the face of lefist lies and spin.

Mal­lard has attacked Westpac’s analy­sis as “extrem­ist and scaremongering”.

Well, Mr Mal­lard as least they both­ered to do some actual sums, not pull fig­ures out of their ass.

As I have said before Labour has more spin­ners than an Indian cricket team and defi­nately more cheek than a fat mans bum.

Show us the fig­ures!!!! or F R O

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Prime Min­is­ter Mrs Peter Davis has risen to num­ber 24 on a list of the world’s most pow­er­ful women, above Hillary Clin­ton, Laura Bush and the Queen, but behind impris­oned Myan­mar politi­cian Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Mal­lard has today found evi­dence of Nation­als financ­ing and at the same time has also dis­cov­ered the cost­ing esti­mates for the Stu­dent Loans BRIBE.

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In an highly unusual move today West­pac Chief econ­o­mist Bren­don O’Donovan has slayed the Labour Party Stu­dent Loans Bribe.

They have cal­cu­lated that this BRIBE would cost not $100 mil­lion – $300 mil­lion as Labour has fibbed. In actual fact it will cost over $1,100 Mil­lion or ONE POINT ONE BILLION DOLLARS each and every year.

Labour has sim­ply devel­oped this pol­icy on the hoof and it is so bad that a major bank has seen fit to enter the fray. This is almost unprecedented.

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The Her­ald poll this morn­ing shows Labour ahead by 6%, largely as a result of it’s scur­rilous spin attack. Cer­tainly it can­not be based on any­thing of substance.

Per­ti­nent results are;

Labour 43.9
National 37.5
NZ First 7.1

Now to the but wait, theres more sec­tion.

The Her­ald also ran a poll that found 53.1 per cent of peo­ple believed the cost of vis­it­ing a GP had increased and only 12 per cent believed it had decreased. A quar­ter of the peo­ple polled found no change.

Fur­ther, Forty-nine per cent said elec­tive surgery had become harder to get and 27 per cent said access remained the same.

Watch for a vicious spin attack on Health closer to the next poll.

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Tv3 has a new poll out. Result are as follows;

Labour is down 1 to 39 from the poll in June. (49 seats)
National is up 3 to 39. (49 seats)
NZ First is down 4 to 7 (9 seats)
Greens are steady on 6 (7 seats)
ACT on 1.6% – no seats
United on 1.4% (2 seats)
Maori Party on 2.2% (4 seats)

This poll con­tin­ues the trend for Labour of down and the trend for National of up. Lets see what tomor­row brings with a new Her­ald poll.

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In the face of clever blog­ging evi­dence and the over­whelm­ing assault of the truth Mal­lard has had to admit that it has exag­ger­ated the sav­ings to stu­dents from its interest-free loans policy.

I think he means lied, fibbed, rorted and deceived, but hey!! lets accept “exaggerated”

I sup­posed he “exag­ger­ated” his scur­rilous accu­sa­tions about National’s funding….still wait­ing for the evi­dence Trev.

I sup­pose Kyotos ben­e­fits were “exaggerated”.

I bet the Mrs Peter Davis will now say she “exag­ger­ated” her actual input into the paint­ing and her pho­tos are only a slight “exag­ger­a­tion” to the essen­tial Mrs Peter Davis.

I also won­der if per­haps the Sur­plus that isn’t there was “exag­ger­ated” as well.

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One won­ders how blun­ders like Kyoto occur…the answer is now before us if you hadn’t already guessed.

Peo­ple who have never run a busi­ness, employed peo­ple from their own pocket, and have only ever been to school or in a Union should never, ever, ever be given con­trol of the gov­ern­ment. Espe­cially if you are a failed His­tory professor.

David Far­rar has shown the stu­dent loan pol­icy of Labour to be what most of us sus­pected all along…..based on lies, sup­po­si­tion and deceit.

Labour must go they shown again why they can­npt be trusted with the economy.

Lets do some math;

Kyoto $1,000,000,000 – $3,000,000,000
Loans scam $1,000,000,000

Total cock-ups thus far $2,000,000,000 – $4,000,000,000.

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The Her­ald edi­to­r­ial this morn­ing shows that the MSM may have woken up to Labours BS express train.

I am gob-smacked by their brutality.

Cyn­i­cism and des­per­a­tion abound in equal mea­sure in the Labour Party’s $300 million-a-year pledge to abol­ish inter­est on stu­dent loans. This is polit­i­cal bribery at its most base. It bodes ill for what is to come dur­ing this elec­tion campaign.

Only two months ago, New Zealan­ders were told that, despite a higher-than-expected sur­plus of $7.4 bil­lion, eco­nomic cir­cum­stance did not per­mit the lav­ish­ness of across-the-board tax cuts and the like. “The mes­sage of Bud­get 2005,” said Michael Cullen, “is that such large one-off pack­ages [as Work­ing for Fam­i­lies] will be rare over the fore­see­able future unless accom­pa­nied by expen­di­ture cuts or effi­ciency gains else­where within the state sector.”

Bribes are, of course, part of the land­scape of every elec­tion cam­paign. Few, how­ever, are so obvi­ously cal­cu­lated to buy votes, or deliv­ered so early in the piece. Democ­racy will be poorly served if this is a har­bin­ger of poli­cies to come.

One won­ders if Labour has bro­ken the Fis­cal Respon­si­bil­ity Act and cooked the books, just like they did in 1990.

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A spokes­woman for Cullen said that Labour, if re-elected, would ini­tially take the money from a $1.9b con­tin­gency fund Cullen had allowed for new spend­ing promises.

What!!!

Where was that in the bud­get?
Where is this com­ing from if there is no room for tax cuts?
Is this the BNZ all over again?

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Fran O’Sullivan lashes Labour in this morn­ings Her­ald call­ing their fund­ing attack a “big lie” and pre­dict­ing that more vic­tims will be lined up before the cam­paign is fin­ished.

In real­ity, Clark con­trols Labour’s game and it is clear she will trade off any short-term dam­age to this country’s rela­tion­ship with the US to stay in power.

How­ever, the big lie has helped Clark rein­vent her­self as the poster-girl against US bullying.

Clark needs to show she can put New Zealand’s wider inter­ests above her own.

I pre­dict we will see more lies, more bribes and more dirt before this cam­paign is out.

Labour has more cheek than a fat ladies bum to pre­tend the elec­tion is all about integrity and honesty.

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