Thursday, 08 February 2018 11:46

Thanks comrades

Written by Rural News Group

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Your old mate was not shocked to see the new Labour-led government quickly repay its mates – and major funders – in the NZ union movement by changing the employment laws to favour its comrades in the organised labour lobby.

However, he was somewhat surprised to see that our new government’s favour is now extending to unions in other countries. Despite its rhetoric on toughening up on the sale of farmland to foreign buyers, the government has approved the sale of a $17.7 million dairy farm in Canterbury to a Canadian buyer on behalf of the Canadian Public Sector Pension Fund – with not a peep of protest from its lapdogs in NZ First. So it appears to the Hound that Labour is not only looking after its mates in the NZ union movement but also its comrades in Canada.

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