March 12, 2015
Peters counts cost of Northland neglect
The smell of pork is hanging over Northland, and it’s not from the hangi laid down to welcome the Winston Peters’ campaign bus.
The entry of the New Zealand First leader into the by-election has driven the National Government to open the coffers in support its candidate Mike Osborne, with 10 new bridges just the first course on the menu.
But Mr Peters says that just reminds Northland people of the many ways they have been marginalised and forgotten.
"They took after 2009 $30 million off the rural road development fund, ie up here, and gave it to some other part of the country like the roads of national signficiance. Then they siphoned off money that was meant to be for tourism developnment and and gave it to other parts of the country for reasons that are just disgraceful when you consider Northland's need. Those sorts of things, people get really brassed off when they know about it because they haven't known abnout it in the past, it hasn't been profiled, and I'm telling it the way it is and as hard as I can do it," he says.
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