Tuesday, 24 November 2015 11:47

Misery guts politician

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Winston Peters' office loves to bag the dairy industry and Fonterra, mostly for all the wrong reasons.

Last week, three days before the GDT auction, the party issued a statement predicting the GDT price index would drop 10%; it dropped by 7%.

We wonder what Peters' crowd is trying to do, but we're certain that inaccurate predictions about GDT and heaping more misery on farmers are helping no one.

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