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Andrew Dickens: We are talking ourselves into hard times

So last week, my opening comments centred on how opposition MPs and anti-government commentators have been fear mongering about the state of the economy.

When it was published online it became one of our most commented on pieces of the day with over 500 people expressing what they thought.

Many called me a Labour party apologist. A lot asked why I was praising Labour's management of the economy.

Problem is; I wasn't.

Nowhere did I say Labour was doing a good job. In fact I'm on record as saying the Government and the Reserve Bank have not handled the reality of the economic situation…

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