Saturday, August 09, 2014

Example of Metiria Turei being untruthful


Earlier today I referred to Metiria Turei "making stuff up" but there is no transcript or recording of last night's debate available. On two occasions I remember saying out loud, That's not true.

The Standard has helpfully summarised the debate between Paula Bennett and Metiria Turei and included this comment:
Bennett did the line about less teenagers giving birth and taking some credit for it. Turei said that trend started before the Nats came into government.
Here is the teenage (15-19) birth rate per 1,000 females over the past 20 years. The data comes from Statistics NZ Infoshare.The trend changed from  2008:


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bennett did the line about less teenagers giving

I'm sure Bennett "did the line" about fewer teenagers