Normal xenophobia from Winston
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is back with all guns blazing today in a speech slamming immigration, foreign ownership and the Government.
Saying NZ First would be fighting the 2011 election to save the country, Mr Peters returned with relish to his old themes of immigration and foreign investment.
The comments were made in speech notes for delivery to the Kawerau and Districts Grey Power meeting this afternoon.
New Zealand had suffered a “tsunami” of immigrants, he said, and large scale immigration could not be justified when 140,000 people were out of work. …
The burden of immigrants on welfare and pensions was bemoaned.
“These people are feasting on your pension pie … the pension pie you and other Kiwis paid for.”
I’ve just gone to Stats NZ and got their annual stats for people arriving in NZ on a residence permit. They are for June years:
- 2006 – 17,917
- 2007 – 17,156
- 2008 – 15,262
- 2009 – 14,275
If that is a tsunami, it is a rapidly shrinking one. How pathetic and desperate is he to resort to his tactics of 15 years ago.