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I’m not sure what Chris Hipkins was trying to prove, other than trying to show that he’s all that and a bag of chips, but he got schooled and as a result he sat back down none the wiser, and neither was anyone else.
This was an example of kindergarten-level questioning and ended predictably.
Marama Davidson was similarly schooled:
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Marama Davidson was just as inept as Chris Hipkins. Marama Davidson set herself up to get slammed and that is exactly what happened. Of course, Davidson was quoting a report compiled by a bunch of politically active academics who have been strangely silent for six years but have now started caterwauling over everything including school lunches.
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This was an example of kindergarten-level questioning and ended predictably.
Marama Davidson was similarly schooled:
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Marama Davidson was just as inept as Chris Hipkins. Marama Davidson set herself up to get slammed and that is exactly what happened. Of course, Davidson was quoting a report compiled by a bunch of politically active academics who have been strangely silent for six years but have now started caterwauling over everything including school lunches.
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Then we can look at the huge waste, where I happen to know that something in the region of 40%–50% of the lunches are binned because the kids neither like them, nor want them. The company that provided them did surveys.
The problem with Chris Hipkins and Marama Davidson is they think the best metric to measure success is how much money they’ve spent. In this case millions upon millions to a multinational company that expatriates its profits to Australia while welching on contracts and deals, and shuttering those same New Zealand operations that performed their contracts.
A quick look into one particular company and the MSM would swiftly discover alarming practices, all subsidised or funded by the taxpayer.
If Boyd Swinburn and Lisa Te Morenga think the school lunches programme provides brilliant nutritious lunches cost effectively then I challenge them to eat these lunches every day for a month and report back on their findings.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
The problem with Chris Hipkins and Marama Davidson is they think the best metric to measure success is how much money they’ve spent. In this case millions upon millions to a multinational company that expatriates its profits to Australia while welching on contracts and deals, and shuttering those same New Zealand operations that performed their contracts.
A quick look into one particular company and the MSM would swiftly discover alarming practices, all subsidised or funded by the taxpayer.
If Boyd Swinburn and Lisa Te Morenga think the school lunches programme provides brilliant nutritious lunches cost effectively then I challenge them to eat these lunches every day for a month and report back on their findings.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
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A classic case of "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open speak up and remove all doubt." A lesson for each of the opposition leaders/co-leaders.
I'm puzzled why free lunch should be considered an important education support for children who are sent to school unfed. By lunchtime (12:00?) more than half the school day has already elapsed. Surely a free breakfast for those children who need it, such as the non-Government program already in place, is far more valuable in helping children get educational benefit from the entire school day?
We clearly have a problem with poor nutrition in this country. Children are being raised on chippies and sugary drinks and since these are addictive kids won't eat healthier food provided for them.
The medical profession are partially responsible for this in their appalling ignorance of basic nutrition. Look into that Boyd instead of imagining providing healthy food alone is the answer.
You only need to watch overweight school children queuing up at diaries and other fast food outlets to despair about our societies eating habits.
Refer to treaty of Waitangi for profound and meaningful answers to all above questions.
After watching as much of each of those clips as I could bear, my overwhelming thought was "is this what our tax dollars are being spent on?". What an inane, useless series of questions and answers. Just trying to score points rather than actually accomplish anything worthwhile. Surely there should be a process of vetting questions to make sure they have a relevant purpose and clear wording, and requiring the responder to actually address the subject matter and intent of the question.
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