NZ First admits ACT foiled its Kiwisaver theft plans
Friday, 22 September 2017, 1:48 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
NZ First admits ACT foiled its Kiwisaver theft
plans
NZ First candidate Richard Prosser has admitted today that he and Winston
Peters planned to privatise the assets of New Zealander’s
Kiwisaver schemes, until their scheme was called out by ACT
leader David Seymour.
“Winston Peters can’t be trusted
in government,” Mr Seymour said. “He only abandoned his
North Korean nationalisation plans when ACT challenged him
in public. What else is he planning?”
“Neither of the
major parties can be trusted to hold Mr Peters to account.
Only ACT can curb his megalomaniac plans to use New
Zealanders’ private savings as a government piggy
bank.”
Mr Peters had denied he would force Kiwisaver
funds and mum and dad investors to sell their shares in
private and mixed ownership power companies to the
government at a below-market price, despite Mr Prosser
announcing the policy that was also on NZ First’s
website.
Mr Prosser emailed the Newsroom site today and
said “my statement concerning the re-nationalisation of
power company shares was not wrong”.
Mr Prosser said it
was always the plan. He admitted that either “the Member
for Northland had simply changed his mind and not bothered
to tell anyone else. Or perhaps he had forgotten our
established and agreed position. Or perhaps he simply forgot
that he’d changed his
mind.”
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