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Greens Took Three Hours To Betray Their Principles
30 July 2002
Greens Took Three Hours To Betray Their Principles
“When Jeanette Fitzsimons offered the
Greens’ support for Labour’s budget on Saturday night she
betrayed one of her party’s fundamental principles – to keep
GE in the lab” claims New Zealand First Leader Winston
Peters.
“The public needs to know that the budget contains funding for new GE field trials. It is within the money for the Foundation of Research, Science and Technology.
“The Greens told the voters throughout the election that one of their bottom lines was keeping GE in the lab. Within three hours of the closing of the polls, they were trading away that bottom line.
“This is a betrayal of monumental proportions, never before witnessed in the political history of our country,” said Mr Peters.
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