Guest column in the NZ Herald

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Martyn Bradbury
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Here was my contribution to the NZ Herald this week.

Martyn Bradbury: PM selling NZ out for three beans

That low rumbling sound you can hear is David Lange rolling in his grave at the sell-out of his independent vision for our country.

Labour’s nuclear-free zone was a moral and ethical stance of nationhood against US hegemony and, as New Zealanders, we should be equally as determined to protect our self-determination by opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

That’s why many Kiwis will protest against the so-called free trade agreement this coming Saturday.

John Key would have us believe that billions and billions will flow from this “free” trade deal with America and other Asia-Pacific nations. Unfortunately for the prime minister, Wikileaks obtained the cable from our chief negotiator, Mark Sinclair, admitting privately that managing the fact we would gain little from the deal was its biggest challenge.

When your chief negotiator warns you that telling the public this deal will earn fortunes is the wrong thing to do because it really won’t, everyone must question what we are actually being sold here.

Read the rest here

Protests against the TPPA are this Saturday 1pm Nationwide

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9 COMMENTS

  2. Good to see so many comments (a large majority in fact) on the Herald website supporting your article, well done, I certainly learnt a few things, the TPP scares me

  3. Thanks Martyn for this excellent summary of the TPPA. My fear is that our Government Opposition parties will spend too much time dithering and lo and behold we have a National Government for another 3 year term.

    Every thinking NZer has to get up and make themselves heard, Key and his cronies have to go, and we need to ensure that he takes his lackeys with him.

    Our votes count more than ever before – the power is in our hands.

  4. Nice work Martyn – it’s an uphill job, but the more you bring balance to the MSM the greater the groundswell of the progressive landslide. This government has been a disaster and a disgrace, it simply cannot win on its merits.

  7. It’s not just the left that are concerned about the TPPA. In my job I talk to a lot of people, many who are definitely not left. They are concerned that the TPPA is being negotiated behind our back and we are not privy to the details. Commerical secrecy is a poor excuse. We have the right to know what is being negotiated on our behalf and what we stand to lose (as well as gain).

  8. Mike the TPPA is being negotiated in the same way the China FTA was. That’s the way these things are done. If the Govt stuff up and we’re not happy, they’ll pay the price at the polling booth, and they know it.

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