Winston Peters today gave a fiery speech to Grey Power justifying his support for the Electoral Finance Bill which he justifies as follows: "The crux of the debate – which was never properly explained in the media – was that it was never about freedom of speech – it was about the freedom of the of this small clique of well financed, ideologically driven elitists to buy speech and drown out dissenting voices.
It is a new, insidious and imported style of politics and it is not the New Zealand way."