Winston Peters
Winston Peters
Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician. He has led the political party New Zealand First since he founded it in 1993, and since November 2023 has served as the 25th minister of foreign affairs. A long-serving member of Parliament (MP), Peters was re-elected for a fifteenth time at the 2023 general election, having previously been an MP from 1979 to 1981, 1984 to 2008 and 2011 to 2020.
"Im putting it to you and to all of my critics, if you can find any Asian leader in any Asian country of whatever political persuasion who doesnt subscribe to the immigration views of New Zealand First, then name that person now. None of you can, all the way to Turkey."
"We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population."
"We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country."
"A corporate raid on a country is not foreign investment. Its just a corporate raid. A corporate raid doesnt expand our wealth, our employment, our exports, is not advantageous to most economies and most economies understand that. In New Zealand we did not. Everything that came from overseas was regarded as foreign investment, when, in fact, it was often a downsizing of the operation, a break-up of the operation and a mass of sackings."
