February 05, 2016
Key’s courage questioned at Waitangi
The organiser of an anti-Trans Pacific Partnership hikoi says John Key is a coward for not fronting up at Waitangi.
Reuben Taipari was among a group of about 100 marchers welcomed on to a rainswept Te Tii Marae this morning.
The Prime Minister cancelled his trip north yesterday, just hours after signing the TPP in Auckland.
Mr Taipari says yesterday’s protests in Auckland while the signing was going on were like trying to ride a hurricane, and he’s buoyed up by the thousands of people who came out to defend their freedom.
He says they’re the people Mr Key doesn’t want to face.
"He’s a coward if he can't face up to the accountability if he can't face up to the voice of the people. Yet he can go out there and make decisions for the people, well he's a coward not to come and face our kaupapa, face Waitangi, face his treaty partners, face his responsibility to the tangata whenua. Yeah that's my opinion of him," he says.
Reuben Taipari says John Key seems to be accountable to corporations rather than New Zealanders.
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