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Low hanging fruit

Astrange man was spotted in a Tauranga supermarket last week, smiling and waving at babies and old ladies. He got a terrible fright at a $20 price tag on a block of cheddar and fainted. When told the geezer passed out on the floor was Sam Uffindell, National’s local MP, one old lady sniffed and said: “Never heard of him. I wish he’d get out of the way.”

Of course, this never happened, but it might have during one of Uffindell’s nowinfamous grocery shopping trips to “give my wife a break”. You can imagine him putting cans of baked beans and jumbo packs of budget bog rolls into his trolley, too, to give him

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