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Andy Thompson's dire dairy payout

The Country
27 Jul, 2016 03:57 AMQuick Read

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Rare and grainy footage of Andy Thompson trying to catch 'em all.

Rare and grainy footage of Andy Thompson trying to catch 'em all.

The Country is off the West Coast to catch up with mayoral aspirant Andy Thompson.

Thompson's doing it tough on his dairy farm at the moment and the payout is definitely not helping matters at all.

Jamie gets personal and asks Andy on how much money he's lost on the farm, whether he could answer any of the Tru-Test Trivial Pursuit questions, and suggests that his wife is the most valuable stock unit on the farm. Nice.

Of course it wouldn't be a hard-hitting agricultural exposé without finding out if Thompson plays Pokémon Go; for goodness sake Mackay.

Let's wrap this up with a proper question - what does Andy Thompson think of the Predator Free Policy? And can he sort out a decent phone line for his next interview? This one is rubbish.

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