Tuesday, 18 April 2017 10:14

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It must be election year, because the Hound notes wiley old Winston is cranking up his usual anti-Chinese crap.

Justly recently, the member for North Korea – sorry Northland – was invited to speak to North Canterbury Fed Farmers and couldn’t spew out enough anti-Chinese claims – bagging Fonterra, Silver Fern Farms, Synlait, Yashili and Oceania Dairies, to name just a few. Your old mate reckons Peters must have been ‘tired and emotional’, again, as any of the thousands of NZ farmers who supply his hit-list of companies will tell you how greatly this Chinese investment benefits their bottom line. Not to worry, Peters is such an economic genius (not) he still refuses to support our FTA with China that has seen NZ’s exports there rise from $3 billion to $12 billion in the eight years since it was signed – and rising daily.

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