Mark the Week: Whangarei's fluoride meeting was both gold and farcical

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. 

 

GDP: 7/10 

Or should that be 0.7? It’s a bigger number than they thought and an indication that we have finally turned the corner. 

 

The Covid loan deadline: 3/10 

A sad, sad, sad reminder of why the 0.7% in GDP has taken so long to get here. Close to $1 billion owed and what do you reckon the chances of it all coming back are? 

 

Whangarei and their fluoride meeting: 2/10 

Read the Spinoff blow by blow account. It's gold, unless you live there and pay for it. Then it's farcical. 

 

The wars: 3/10 

Dreadful week. The Trump call to Putin was a joke and the ceasefire fell to bits. 

 

Ted Lasso: 8/10 

Another series when they said there wasn’t another series. 

 

F1: 7/10 

New Zealand ratings show half a million of us watched. That would make it the most watched programme of the week, or close to it. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time out of mark the wheat, little piece of news
and current of incidence as popular as a capsule that
actually works and can get you back to earth. GDP
seven or point seven, it's a bigger number than they
thought and an indication that we have finally turned the corner.
Are the FTA seven? Now? The media got a bit
bogged down on the triviality of days. Whether it's sixty
or ninety or longer, it's not the point. The point
is that free trade is good for New Zealand inc.

(00:22):
Are the COVID loan deadline free way? Sad sad sad
reminder of why the zero point seven and GDP has
taken so long to get here? Close to a billion
dollars is still owed. What do you reckon? The chances
of that being paid back are huh? Gimme bad knock.
Eight In some senses my hero of the week net
zero for Britain, she said, isn't real without a level
of economic carnage. She is not prepared to put her

(00:44):
country through rare honesty. You might not like it, but
it's true. Local government New Zealand four now this week
it was the Western Bay of Plenty quitting that organization.
Have they worked out they might have a problem. Speaking
of councils, fung Array and their fluoride meeting too, the
spinoffs blow by blow account of that meeting. It's gold, unless,

(01:04):
of course you live there and pay for it, then
it's farcical. The JFK files five kind of the con
of the week. There is no smoking gun on a
grassy knoll or not. Salary reviews seven. Yes, growth as
the general good economic news of the week's salaries are
still going up more than inflation. In other words, we
are winning ted Lasso eight another series when they said

(01:26):
there wasn't another series. If one seven you know the
Zealand later half a million of us watched that race,
that would make it the most watch program of the week,
or very close to it anyway. Grope seven Pickings Underway.
I was in, Oh, nice Pickings Underway. Quality in most
areas is outstanding. Fontier a half year profits seven. I

(01:46):
mean more numbers that show farming as gold in factors,
if not better than gold. Are the wars three need
dreadful week, the Trump call to poot and that was
a joke, and the ceasefire felt to bits in the
Middle East. Gold actually gold eight gold is gold fit
over three pound and announced that's troubled times for you,
isn't it? And that is the week copies on the
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