Mary Brookes rushes into print again jumping to conclusions and making false assumptions. I regularly attended National Party meetings until my democratic right to oppose the Seabed and Foreshore Bill by Submission was deleted to the Trash Bin by Chris Finlayson. He did this deliberately by rushing the Bill back to Parliament before thousands of submissions could be heard.
The National Party President Peter Goodfellow came to a Bethlehem meeting mid last year to talk about the Seabed and Foreshore Bill. Most people attending were against the it. He urged us to put in Submissions against it. These being later torpedoed by Chris Finlayson.
Often small dogs were mentioned in opening addresses at such meetings. I decided there were more important issues facing the country like the killings and assaults on small children and the need for Parenting Classes in such environments. The large number of young people out of work because of the recession who need to be placed in work training schemes so they can get jobs when the economy picks up. More recently the huge debt this Government has run up that future generations will have to pay for.
The CloseUp program on Kawerau the other night highlighted some of these problems this Government should be addressing and is not.
I acknowledge the work Simon does.
Mary Brookes should take off her blue tinted glasses and stop her acidic attacks on people.
Margaret Hills, Tauranga.