Dicks

Stuff reports:

Early this morning a small group of protesters scaled scaffolding on Wellington’s National War Memorial carillon to hang a massive “No Asset Sales” banner.

The protesters are part of a coalition of Wellington groups opposing the Government’s plan to sell up to 49 per cent of four state-owned energy companies and further reduce its shareholding in Air New Zealand.

Spokesman Richard McIntosh said the coalition was made up of People Power Ohariu, the Mana Party, the Ohariu Citizens Select Committee and others.

The usual band of dicks, who give themselves fancy names. The National War Memorial is not the appropriate place to do such a stunt. It is insulting.

Amusing how hard they are campaigning for the Government to break its word and actually drop the policy it was elected on.

Peter Dunne made a good facebook comment about them:

The so-called Ohariu people’s select committee on state asset share floats is a joke. First they said I had gone against my pre-election policy on share floats – now they concede I have not, but say they did not realise what UnitedFuture’s policy was. Then they said they had 700 submissions from local people opposing my stance; then it was 600; now they say that at least all the self-appointed committee members of grumpy old unionsts are Ohariu voters, and that just 269 of the submissions are from local people. Their first protest at Parliament attracted 9 people; their last protest at my electorate office on a day when it was closed had just 5 people attend. And they wonder why I have no interest in meeting them – based on their record so far, they would go to the wrong venue, on the wrong day!

So true.