Photo: RNZ / Demelza Leslie.
Labour continues with it’s rolling red phalanx against farming and horticulture operations. They will dump the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management in favour of policy based on recommendations made by Environment Court judge David Sheppard in 2010 as water spokesman David Parker confirms. Continue reading
While Labour still rides the crest of the wave of the leadership change honeymoon and a surge in the polls, Labour this week announced their water policy….minus the most important rural vote killing details. Cost.
I don’t believe for a second they haven’t done the numbers on it, and they know it will get some pushback. They haven’t gone into too many details, mainly because they know it will hurt votes and have a negative effect on the regions economies. Continue reading