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Kate Hawkesby: I’m bordering on feeling sorry for Chris Hipkins
I’m bordering on feeling sorry for Chris Hipkins - and I’ll tell you why.
He’s single-handedly being the face of the entire Government day in day out and spinning so much BS that it must be giving him a headache.
I mean the level of ‘creative facts’ shall we call them, being espoused, is truly award winning.
Yesterday he even tried to blame an international TikTok trend which has only just blown up, on our ram raid stats.
He tried the old ‘it’s an international problem’ routine that he trots out for all our problems - he tried to make it sound like kids filming themselves committing crimes…
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