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Time to hold ‘unelected bureaucracy’ to account

Gisborne Herald
18 Mar, 2023 12:20 PMQuick Read

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Peter Jones

Peter Jones

The term conspiracy theorist is used as a weapon to shame and discourage people from critical thinking, where a conspiracy is a group of people who are secretly planning evil intent on another group of people.

I will challenge the socialist agenda being thrust upon us via Sustainable Tairawhiti and Trust Tairawhiti and work for the people to resist the green new deal that our council and community “trustees” are rolling out.

Our small country sits at the southern end of the globe with a tiny carbon footprint and one has to free oneself from the illusion that the United Nations' climate directives from the Convention on Bio-diversity are scientifically correct, because government responses globally, nationally and locally will lead to massive destruction of wealth, wellbeing and work.

I will support innovative growth that brings sustainable wealth to the local people without sacrificing individual autonomy as a basic human right, and do my best to ensure that the council budget is spent with a holistic approach to cost-benefit analysis, keeping local jobs, transport availability and local industry squarely at the centre of my decision-making.

The ten-year plan is a brazen attempt to bankrupt the local economy by investing in white elephant projects that have little economic value to achieve the goals of Agenda 21, which include no private property, no rural roads, no private cars, no organic produce, no meat, no guns and no cash.

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The only agriculture allowed will be industrialised, corporate agriculture featuring produce grown using cheap foreign labour, chemical fertilisers, pesticides and contaminated waste water from the recharged aquifers which we will have to pay for.

If you are not happy with the 10-year plans being thrust upon us by un-elected bureaucracy, vote Jones to hold them accountable at every turn.

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