Peters Challenges Clark And Wilson To Front Up To Tauranga Electorate Over Election Promise

Speaking from his Tauranga Electorate, the Rt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First and Member of Parliament for Tauranga, today challenged Prime Minister Helen Clark and Margaret Wilson to use the Prime Minister’s visit to Tauranga today as an opportunity to explain to the Tauranga people why Labour is stalling on one of its key election promises.

“That is – their promise to introduce urgent anti party hopping legislation. Both Helen Clark and Margaret Wilson repeated this promise in campaign speech after campaign speech – and make no mistake it won them significant votes at the expense of their opponents – especially here in Tauranga,” said Mr Peters.

Mr Peters said that if the Labour led government, and its Prime Minister, were really going to pride themselves on setting new standards of accountability in New Zealand Politics the people of Tauranga – and New Zealand – have a right to question why Labour is stalling from keeping this important commitment.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>