MVT, wasn't it the National blogging team who discovered files with a bit of IT digging on Labour servers, and they pulled those through for analysis, rather than alert the Labour IT team. This included credit card details. When I'm feeling more energetic, I'll write a list of probable scurrilous activity by Crosby/Textor around the world. When you employ a team like that, you are saying to your opposition that the gloves are off.
Cam Slater, the provider of the "best gossip", does this partly by having a hot line to the beehive in some form or another. When National Party candidates want the inside running on the nomination for safe electorates, they often pay an agent, who in turn pays Cam Slater and others, for favourable treatment on the WOBH website. He's also paid to run favourable commentary for the liquor and tobacco industries.
Meanwhile the Dairy Cheque will probably not cover up National's mismanagement of our economy in the next financial year.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/1057...-plummet-again
As you have such experience in economics, MVT, can you show us in which metrics National has surpassed the Labour record achieved over nine years? I've already posted several graphs that show disturbing negative trends since 2008. Someone with your skills should be able to demonstrate where I've gone wrong. No waffling text, just the data and a commentary please.