> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Misleading Is the Nice Word for Lying - URL: https://goodoil.news/misleading-is-the-nice-word-for-lying/ - Published: 2022-10-20T19:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2024-07-17T16:56:02.000Z - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48 Jacinda Ardern famously said during the 2017 election campaign that she believed that a person could have a career in politics without telling lies. That was, of course, a lie. It was a lie then and it’s a lie now. Since then she’s lied and lied and lied. She has been busted lying again, which the paid shills and propagandists in the New Zealand [media coyly call “misleading”](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/10/prime-minister-s-office-apologises-for-misleading-comments-about-new-zealand-s-child-poverty-figures.html?ref=goodoil.news), when they really should have said lying. > The Prime Minister’s office has **apologised for misleading comments** about New Zealand’s child poverty figures. > > **Jacinda Ardern has claimed poverty figures are improving but incorrectly suggested the data included children living in non-private dwellings.** > > “I believe that, for material hardship, the \[Material Hardship\] survey does pick up people in non-private dwellings but for the *Household Economic Survey*, it doesn’t.” > > But **Ardern’s chief press secretary has since apologised, clarifying the data does not include this.** > > “**The Prime Minister asked me to clarify** if the *Material Hardship Survey* picked up people in non-private dwellings which I checked with officials who confirmed it ‘doesn’t’ however when relaying this to the Prime Minister… I accidentally relayed it as ‘it does.'” > > Ardern’s office, however, there were about 4000 children in emergency housing nationwide – well within the margin of error for the survey’s analysis. > > Explaining some of the math jargon surrounding the report, mathmetician Dimitrios Mitsotakis said studies often couldn’t include the entire population – which is why a margin of error was included. > > “We always study part of the population, not the whole population,” he told AM. > > “That’s the thing with the margin of error… we expect that the error we make, or the tolerance we have, is about the margin of error – that’s a percentage, usually.” > > Newshub Note how the chief press secretary was chucked under the bus. The tyrant would never ever lower herself to apologise for anything. For her like many other politicians, sorry seems to be the hardest word. Ardern is getting more and more shrill as her polling tanks. She is on track to become our most despised Prime Minister in living memory. She is so bad she is managing to eclipse the levels of opprobrium that Robert Muldoon and Helen Clark richly deserved. At least Helen Clark was competent. The next twelve months are going to get even harder for the tyrant as she clings desperately to power. We have a by-election on December 10, which will become a referendum on the Ardern regime. 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