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Your old mate reckons plenty of the current crop of MPs in Parliament would struggle to read, let alone make laws for this country.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters got more than he bargained for at a recent Waikato Federated Farmers annual meeting.

Silver Fern Farm's 6000 farmer shareholders could be in the gun for millions of dollars in penalty payments and costs if the company's proposed merger is not settled by June 30.

Only eight months ago, Federated Farmers and NZ's special agriculture trade envoy, Mike Petersen, said the TPPA was going to be gold standard or bust, NZ First leader Winston Peters says.

Winston Peters has been at it again, hiding behind the cloak of Parliamentary privilege to deliver another conspiracy-riddled attack, this time on the directors and farmer shareholders of Silver Fern Farms.

Farm debt mediation is back in the national spotlight, and not a moment too soon.

NZ First deserves a pat on the back for defending farmers against the furore over high milk prices.

Your canine crusader always thought politicians were full of the proverbial, but it seems the drongos at NZ First have taken this even a step further.

Your old mate notes that NZ First leader Winston Peters, was not red-necked or stupid enough to ask some really dumb questions about the proposal of Hong-Kong-based He Run Ltd to set up a new dairy processing factory in Otorohanga.