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Monday, 22 February 2016 10:08

Say what?

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Say what?

The Hound was intrigued by the motivation of the protesters who turned up in Auckland earlier this month to decry the signing of the TPP.

However, as your old mate suspected, not many actu- ally knew what the TPP is and how it will affect them. Here are a couple of answers given by protesters when asked why they were protesting: “The cuzzies say the TPP will take the fishing and the benefits away”; “It means the construction of a world govern- ment”, “F@#k the TPP; I want to go fishing” and “Cos John Keys (sic) is a homo!” Wow, with cogent arguments like these you can understand their concerns – not!

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