LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

the NZ Prime Minister or who?

I urge you the people, to come and be heard, educate yourself and play and do your part as a kaitiaki (guardian).

Nga mihi.

But his article clearly indicated that stunting of local economical growth would result from Labour party efforts to improve pay and conditions for ordinary working people, and he specifically directed attention to a National Party website, the purpose of which is to stymie Labours efforts in that regard. Therefore Matt’s claim that he was not writing against improving local workers’ pay and conditions is fallacious.

He also said my comments were ‘deliberately misleading’ without explaining why.

Matt surely referred to what started out as National’s Employment Contracts Act when he said “National backs workers and businesses to have modern grown up conversations about employment policies like pay, leave and allowances”. I consider that to be deliberately misleading, and I am willing to explain why in detail, should Matt be interested to read it.

And I would certainly be interested to read Matt’s detailed explanation, referencing his own article and my previous letter, of exactly how I have been ‘deliberately misleading’.

Reading Matt King MP’s articles in the Northland Age, including the recent ‘What exactly has changed?’ (opinion , March 13), I find it presumptuous that his articles are entitled Your Local Voice when it is clearly just a public platform for sticking it to other political parties using National party holier than thou rhetoric.