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Prime Minister’s office apologises for misleading comments about New Zealand’s child poverty figures
The Prime Minister’s office has apologised for misleading comments about New Zealand’s child poverty figures.
Jacinda Ardern has claimed poverty figures are improving but incorrectly suggested the data included children living in non-private dwellings.
TDB’s own Professor Susan St John critiqued MSDs ridiculous poverty survey first here on TDB 10 days ago and pointed out MSD were leaving out the poorest children so that the stats looked good.
The AM Show picked the story up and Jacinda was caught flat footed.
Folks you can read it here first or wait for the mainstream media to catch up.
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ah huh…look, if any parliamentarians are caught bullshitting, hold them to account, but really Jacinda is an absolute amateur compared to a previous PM…
John Keys lies list
John Keys lies list, fuck for every lie he told I’d be 1000 years old.
As soon as I saw the news clip I said to my spouse, “Jacinda is lying again”. It would be charitable to say she didn’t know she was giving out misinformation but this is her portfolio and child “poverdy” is her number one concern remember! Well done Susan and Bomber. I never expected an apology from the PM’s office but the social media focus required action to stem the attention the lying/misleading by the PM was getting.
There aint many scholars amongst the right wing and especially the Natz and their Tory ZB radio the “Tory am” TV show and the ignorance displayed by Ryan and melissa. The Tory am show should engage technical experts to explain when numbers are numbers are mentioned. Melissa and Ryan have shown their ignorance about ‘the margin of error” and their general view that all those (4000) children in Motels etc were in poverty – the families came from poverty into those motels, that was pure ignorance.
Tory am show is an embarrassment when they bring some disgruntled ignorant Tory to interview and the they cant ask the technical questions. Jacinda was correct and Government had no reason to apologise.
WTF is this from the Chief Press Sec? “Accidentally told her it does?” How did he get this wrong?
“The Prime Minister asked me to clarify if the Material Hardship Survey picked up people in non-private dwellings which I checked with officials who confirmed it ‘doesn’t’ however when relaying this to the Prime Minister… I accidentally relayed it as ‘it does.'”
And this is the Jacinda you want us to return to power nek year…
Adern, if she has any self-reflection and decency, should have resigned by now. And not just for her child poverty failure.