When we are in Government we will move to compulsory reacquire the shares at no greater price paid for them by the first purchaser ... Rt Dis Hon Winston Peters 4 March 2013 (conveniently failing to state where the money is coming from, has to be borrowing ... but I digress).
I one stroke Winston has positioned his Party as wedded to the hard left socialist dogma of 'state control of the means of production, distribution and exchange' .... welcome to the Club comrade Peters.
But hold on ... didn't Peters as Treasurer in 1998 hail 'popular capitalism' when he flogged off the Government share holding in Auckland Airport in a $4m ad campaign fronted by Sean Fitzpatrick which attracted 68.000 investors.
Is Peters going to buy those shares back too? Answer ... no way hosay, and that's why he is a hypocrite par excellence and that's why he's viewed as the New Zealand equivalent of Pauline Hanson and/or Bob Katter.
p.s. It would help if Labour were to articulate a policy on this. A bob each way just doesn't cut the mustard.
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But hold on ... didn't Peters as Treasurer in 2008 hail 'popular capitalism' when he flogged off the Government share holding in Auckland Airport in a $4m ad campaign fronted by Sean Fitzpatrick which attracted 68.000 investors.
No he did no such thing in 2008.
Wooops .... 1998.
Oh well, hopefully a fair number of the 500K investors are grey headed Winnie supporters who would rather vote for someone else than let their investments depreciate....
Jimmie
Hope the hope the issue of five hundred investors would have settled till now
Surely you don't believe he will follow through.
Most Joe Kiwi knows politicans spout off with unobtainable claims when either in opposition or in a party with no chance of carrying it out.
Mind you most where stumped when the current lot claimed a "mandate" when the majority of voters never voted for them.
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