The Bullshit

National up, NZ Labour down, Greens dead? Really!?

Hickey on surpluses and Key’s bullshit

Bernard Hickey: “It is extraordinary for the Prime Minister to call the Treasury’s short and long term forecasts a “load of nonsense” and yet rely on the medium term ones to promise all manner of riches to voters on the eve of an election.”

Hooton spouting nonsense

Matthew Hooton is spinning like mad to talk up the economy. Unfortunately his spin sometimes bends the truth beyond breaking point, and there were three examples of that yesterday.

Labour billboard campaign

Labour have been running a competition to crowd source their billboard design.  Here is the winner, which (see Red Alert) will be going up around Wellington shortly.  It’s going to provoke some controversy.

Keith Ng: Nat bullshit on inflation and earnings

National have been running some fine lines of bullshit lately.  Keith Ng’s recent post at Public Address calls them out on two of them.  The first, National is trying to claim credit for low inflation.  The Second, National is trying to claim that recent wage increases have been better than the previous 9 years.  Keith takes the bullshit apart – dirty work, but someone has to do it.