Stop
Bleating, Do Your Job – Get Cathedral Restoration
Moving
New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon
Winston Peters says the “bleating” from Christchurch MP
Nicky Wagner can easily be stopped.
“She needs to get
the job done and end the stalemate over the quake-wrecked
cathedral.
“Ms Wagner, who has inherited the
responsibility and is now Minister supporting Greater
Christchurch Regeneration, could shut me up if she just got
working – her government has been dilly dallying for six
years.
“The Minister looks a tad silly by ranting at New
Zealand First every time we remind her government there’s
a leadership vacuum on this issue. She could save her breath
by getting the job done.
“If the cathedral was now a
hive of restoration activity we would quite happily have got
on with the many other jobs we are doing and stayed silent
– but we are doing our work and reminding the government
where it has badly, and sadly, slipped up,” says Mr
Peters.
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