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March 17th, 2011 at 3:00 pm by David FarrarAndrea Fox at Stuff reports:
Kedgley says the report failed to address the central issue of lack of competition in the domestic market.
“It doesn’t tell us how the price of milk is set. Farmers say they receive less than 30 per cent of the price of milk, but it fails to shed any light on what makes up the other 60 per cent,” she says.
Maybe this is why the Greens are against national standards in numeracy and literacy?
March 17th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Nah, the other 10% is “don’t know”
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
She always was ten cents short of a dollar.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Brilliant!
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Hang on, aren’t the Greens the ones that *want* monopolies – lest we waste our precious resources duplicating infrastructure?
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
With the state of journalism in New Zealand, how do we know it is Kedgley’s mistake and not Andrea Fox’s?
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Luddite’s mathematics, no doubt! She is so wise and pretty.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Typical greens, the issue is not milk prices per se, but rather how the Supermarket duopoly is impacting fresh goods prices in NZ, milk is but one part, fruit/vegetables are just as much affected.
Vote:Partially it’s a global trend of supermarkets leveraging the prices of those goods & that’s tough to go against, but it’d be interesting to know how much of a factor the duopoly is, certainly it’d be a far smarter idea to try & understand the underlying problem rather than remove GST from core food products goods which is stupidity on a scale only Labour could consider.
March 17th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Jesus christ it isn’t rocket surgery.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
we have a aim of plus or minus 10% on orders so she just makes it ………………. nah, she is the weakest link, goodbye
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
DPF, I’ve just checked the Green website and this was not taken from a Green media release, because they are all published there and nothing about this appears.
It was presumably from a phone or in-person interview Andrea Fox did with Sue Kedgley. So Andrea Fox is just as likely to be the one who made the mistake in reporting what Sue Kedgley said as Sue is to have made the mistake in what she said.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Like any good Religion, the Greens demand a tithe of 10% of your income to the party. That’s my Sue Kedgley natually assumes that everyone else is making the same contribution to the Green fairies.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Definitely a few shades beyond blonde.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Oh dear. Not what they used to be.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
“So Andrea Fox is just as likely to be the one who made the mistake in reporting what Sue Kedgley said as Sue is to have made the mistake in what she said.”
No, the mistake is more likely to have been made by Kedgley as that sort of mistake is more common than the one you claim Fox made.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/4774494/Commerce-Commission-urged-to-probe-milk-prices
Seems to be a direct quote. Blonde moment. We all have them. Not much to see here. Move on.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
So Andrea Fox is just as likely to be the one who made the mistake in reporting what Sue Kedgley said as Sue is to have made the mistake in what she said.
The would require Andrea Fox to be one of those old hat (read over 70 in age) reporters who disdain the use of a recording device in interviews…..
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
The missing 10% is dihydrogen monoxide. This is something Sue never mentions
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
So Andrea Fox is just as likely to be the one who made the mistake in reporting what Sue Kedgley said as Sue is to have made the mistake in what she said.
I’m gonna put my hand up and say that I read that and didn’t see the mistake myself.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Maybe she’d already included GST in her calculation – less than 30% + 15% leaves just under 60%…
Nah, who am I kidding?
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Daffy old dear that she is.
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Im no Kedgley fan but I wonder if Spoon is right.
Vote:GST makes up 13% of a product’s cost, and Sue said “less than 30%” for the farmers. I dont know what farmers get but if its say 28% then Sue’s basically correct (and obviously if its 27% then she’s bang on).
So instead……… maybe this is why National are so keen on national standards in literacy and numeracy
March 17th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Who cares who made the mistake. Who cares that a mistake was made. I’m more concerned about why I’m paying so much for f**king food to feed my family!
Vote:March 17th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
English isn’t too hot with figures for a finance minister. The bogus statistics he churns out every week are an insult to the intelligence of New Zealanders.
Vote:March 18th, 2011 at 1:22 am
Isn’t this the woman who tried to ban the fundraising ‘sausage sizzle’?
Vote:March 18th, 2011 at 7:49 am
It doesn’t really matter if she made a math mistake in an interview she’s a fucking moron. This type of bullshit “the farmers arent getting 100% of the retail price so something bad is happening” thinking is beyong mindlessly dumb, it is plain evilly intended.
Vote:March 18th, 2011 at 8:33 am
Have you got fucking ADD or something magic? You can never say anything about thats on topic can you. We get socialism good everyone evil.
You just a bloody lefist yap parrot with one message so why not just cut and paste a single “sommie wank message of the day” and just repost that on every one of DPF’s posts and save us time skipping your usual red heerings and off topic drivel.
And for gods sake get some professional help with your mental disorder.
Vote:March 18th, 2011 at 10:16 am
“It doesn’t tell us how the price of milk is set. Farmers say they receive less than 30 per cent of the price of milk, but it fails to shed any light on what makes up the other 60 per cent,” she says.
It could be the GST plus rounding.
30 + 15 = 45
100-45 = 55, rounded up is 60
Maybe she thinks parliamentarians can only deal with numbers with one significant figure.
Vote:March 18th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
At a candidates meeting in 2008 I’m sure I heard Sue Kedgely say to some of the other candidates ” You three are a right pair” . I should have realised her innumeracy then.
Vote:March 18th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Why the fuck are so many trying to justify Sue Kedgley’s math problem? The variable arithmetic some use is something Sue would never understand. She fucked it up in the first place, so the GST content on or off is empty space to her.
Oh I get it, a few people want to show us how smart they are.
Vote:S.M.A.T, S.M.A.T, S.M.A.T, I mean S.M.A.R.T.
Appologies to Homer Simpson
March 18th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Well there we go
One reporter or one MP making a slip of the tongue mistake justifies the imposition of a programme that could have been invented by Stalin upon all our kids.
Ah, DPF, you’ve done it again!
Now, if it’s Maths you want, try this. Bill English complains of borrowing 300 million bucks per week, but he instituted tax cuts costing 70 million smackeroos per week of borrowed money. So we are paying interest to overseas investors to fund tax cuts for largely high income earners who can easily afford to pay the former tax rates.
Ergo, reverse those tax cuts, our borrowings drop back to 230 mil overnight.
I bet the National Party fanatics can’t work that one out!
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