Friday, 25 September 2020, 2:08 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
“Winston Peters created the situation at Ihumātao when
he made Jacinda Ardern the Prime Minister,” says ACT
Leader David Seymour.
“Fletcher’s private property
rights would never have been undermined if he hadn’t
installed the current government.
“Peters could have
promoted one law for all inside Cabinet. Instead, he’s
rolled it out three weeks before the election. His comments
on Ihumātao today are too little, too late.
“Peters
also called me irrelevant, but I’ve achieved more from the
backbenches in three years than he’s achieved in three
stints in Cabinet.
“Peters has been completely
impotent. He condemned his own Government’s response to
COVID-19. But he’s one of seven members of the COVID-19
Cabinet Committee and the Deputy Prime
Minister.
“It’s unsurprising his ideas haven’t
been taken seriously inside the Cabinet. Winston Peters is
yesterday’s man. He has spent forty years in Parliament
but has no lasting achievements to show for it. New
Zealanders don’t trust him because he never keeps his
word.”
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