D J Murphy

140 year old meat processing factory and 660 Jobs in Timaru likely gone. This is what is killing our economy. Land use change due to progressive policy and the resulting declining farm land, which in turn has led to a significant decline in Animals. In the 50’s - 70’s When NZ was in the top 3 countries for standard of living and right up there in terms of wealth we exported Agriculture, that’s how we got there. Since 2011 land use rules have lost approximate 12% of productive land, with Trees being planted and property developers buying up swathes of farm land for new builds. Although this has been going on for sometime, it escalated under Ardern when she sent David Parker to goose stepping through NZ to kneecap farmers with unrealistic and unworkable fresh water laws. Farmers are walking away. I know several farming families who have farmed for generations discouraging their own children from farming. What’s interesting in the below clip is an E Tu Union Member openly criticising the change in land use, and yet it’s the party’s they support that helped bring this industry to its knees. We need to get this country back working or we will become like Sri Lanka, a country convinced to embrace progressive farming which led to massive crop failures and a failed state, and now has installed an Openly Marxist leader. That country will end up in China’s hands soon enough.