So we can't help but wonder; was Happy Feet a member of the new breed mentioned yesterday by the Right Honorable Winston Peters in the video that follows?
Perhaps David "Happy Feet" Farrar, Emperor Penguin of the Blogosphere will have the answer to this question that so puzzles us at the moment...
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Stupid National.
Yesterday, Labour got the goods on John Key and his illegal "PM's hour" election broadcast, showing that Key's office had its grubby paws all over it. They had arranged the guests, they had instructed RadioLive on the brief for the show, and they'd even written RadioLive's inquiry to the Electoral Commission. Key's response to this was to say that he had no knowledge of any of this, and in followup questions today he claimed that he had first learned of it in Question Time yesterday
Stupid National.
The High Court has ruled in the Crafar Farms case, found that the Ministers of Finance and Land Information erred in their decision to let foreign buyers buy the farms, and told them to go back and do it again. This won't necessarily stop the sale - the Ministers new decision may be the same as the old one, with better reasoning - but it delays it somewhat. More importantly, it has nailed down the interpretation of the Overseas Investment Act, requiring Ministers to assess the benefits of proposed investment against what would happen were it not made, not the status quo. In this case, where most of the "benefits" would happen regardless of who bought the farms, it significantly undermines the case for overseas purchase.
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