I didn't attend the Christchurch Press sponsored Prime Minister's South Island Forum last night, but they do have a video of some of the highlights up on their website.
There was one line that struck me. John Key (around 2.45 in the video) says "Treasury have unemployment at 8% by the sort of end of next year, the Reserve Bank are 7% and change I think, 7.3% or something".
Now, it may not sound like a lot to John Key, but the .3% of unemployed that he dismissed as "7 and change" is over 6000 people who are projected to lose their jobs. Surely they deserve a little more respect that being dismissed as "change".
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