Farming action group Groundswell NZ is organising ‘A Howl of a Protest’ in town centres around the country in response to government regulations including the recent clean car scheme which is set to incentivise EVs and penalise utes.
The nationwide event is for “farmers, growers and ute owners who are fed up with increasing government interference in your life and business, unworkable regulations and unjustified costs”, the group says.
Tradespeople are also being encouraged to take part in the protest which is set to kick off throughout the country around 12pm on Friday, July 16.
The group says it also wants to see a number of current regulations halted or rewritten, including regulations relating to freshwater, indigenous biodiversity, climate change and the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill.
Groundswell NZ spokesperson Bryce McKenzie told Stuff.co.nz that the protest was important because “there is a lot of anguish out there, there is a lot of tension and this is a way for people to get together and release some of that and show that they’re not happy”.
“We want farmers to gather up a few of their neighbours and go to town in their tractors or utes – some people have even told us they will even take their horses. A statement will be read from Groundswell at each centre and then there will be a bark up, or a howl up, from the dogs,” McKenzie says.
I reckon a huge number of New Zealanders are sick and tired, and terrified at the anti-individual, anti-business, anti-liberty agenda of this government. They are now making no bones of what their intentions are: to divide us, conquer us and remove what little freedoms we enjoy today.
Unless more thinking individuals stand up and refuse to accept the mandate of this socialist bag of ratbags, New Zealand will fall to a totalitarian regime.
Come on New Zealand! Wake up and fight!
God Save New Zealand.