15 September 2016

Media Release

Retiring MP insults his own party by rubbishing core Green values

The pursuit of political power at any cost in terms of principles was never more blatantly shown than by some of the statements made by retiring Green Party MP Kevin Hague, according to Democrats for Social Credit Party health spokesman David Tranter.

Just as Mr. Hague treated the views of experienced health professionals with contempt as CEO of the West Coast DHB, now he rubbishes the widespread concerns of many New Zealanders over 1080 and fluoridation.

Mr. Hague's claiming credit for playing, "a role in the Green's path to credibility", and his working, "to suppress the party's zanier aspects and banish anti-scientific policies such as opposition to 1080 (and) fluoridation", flies in the face of the massive documented evidence against both these agendas. It also insults every Green voter whose opposition to such policies was the basis for their allegiance to that party.

Mr. Hague's doing this in order to facilitate the Greens', "credibility over two election campaigns" raises the question as to why have a Green Party at all if it abandons long-held principles against such mis-guided agendas as the use of poison which indiscriminately kills every creature it touches, and the equally misguided obsession with putting another deadly poison in the public water supply, Mr. Tranter said.

To describe such concerns as "the party's zanier aspects" and "anti-scientific policies" while at the same time career-jumping to a more comfortable position leaves the Greens with the very credibility question which Mr. Hague appears to think he has solved.

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