Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:03

The Roundup touch!

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The Roundup touch!

FEDS’ SO-CALLED news mag National Farming Review is out, looking like a compendium of junior-high school essays – written by every Feds’ policy analyst.

The Hound also notes a front-page photo depicts the hapless former Labour Party leader David Shearer shaking hands with Feds president Bruce Wills. A mate of your canine crusader claims it was not Shearer’s dead fish stunt in Parliament that ended his feckless attempt to be PM, but instead his appearance in this turgid publication: the final nail in his political coffin. 

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