Where Is The Honesty Among Our Representatives?
OPINION: A founding principle of Groundswell NZ is that farmers, and people generally, should be provided with full and accurate information about regulations that directly affect them.
OPINION: Meanwhile, speaking of Groundswell, this old mutt understands that the leaders of the rural lobby group and fringe political party Democracy NZ recently met up in a café in Gore for a clandestine catch up.
This was all before the major meltdown in the Democracy NZ political movement last month, where five of its 10 selected candidates resigned en mass.
This included Waikato candidate Steven Cranston, who was the former ag emissions spokesman for Groundswell - before he jumped on the Democracy NZ crazy wagon.
Your old mate suggests that Groundswell should steer clear of having such a close association with a fringe political outfit like Democracy NZ or they are in danger of being labelled as associating political crazies and burning off much of the goodwill it has built up in rural NZ.
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