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Chris Hipkins got schooled during Question Time by Winston Peters. It was an object lesson which showed Chris Hipkins that no matter how smart he thinks he is, no matter how often he asks stupid questions, and no matter how often he inanely bobs his head with a silly grin, he just isn’t up to it, especially when up against the Wily Silver Fox.

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:

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.

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.

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As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news,...