Is Jim Anderton our own Denny Crane?

Rob Hosking - NBR - 13 March

All Adam can say after reading this is that Jim Anderton is increasingly bizarre. Is it possible that Anderton suffers from mad cow? After all mad cow works for Denny Crane. No, after all Denny Crane only has to say Denny Crane and the Red Sea, so to speak, parts. Can’t see that happening for Jim Anderton. Plus Denny is a winner. So Jim is not New Zealand’s Denny Crane.

So maybe it is time up for Jim Anderton.

This purported comment, which Adam could not find another source for, seems really weird. Apart from anything else Tim Groser is responsible for trade negotiations. This all smacks of Anderton trying to get in a swipe at McCully without any regard for the facts.

For example it is well documented that Obama’s nominee for Trade Representative is focussed on enforcing and re-negotiating major existing pacts and not on new agreements.

So Jim is, Adam would suggest, somewhat out of the loop, or just trade illiterate as well as economically illiterate and confused about the meaning of gerrymander.

Not very progressive Jim. You need an Alan Shore.

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