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除非联合未来党党魁彼得•邓恩 (Peter Dunn)将纽西兰人的利益放在自身利益之前，否则出售国有电力企业和纽航的决定性的一票将会由在2011 年大选只获0.6%支持的联合未来党来决定。 工党国有资产事务
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如果彼得•邓恩的一票让出售国有资产成功的话，那对于我们的民主制度是一个嘲弄。 2011 年大选，联合未来党只获得 13,443 票，也就是说只比纽西兰大麻合法化党 (Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party) 多 1705 票。由这样的小党来决定诸如国有资产命运等等对纽西兰人来说十分重要的问题，简直令人难以想象。
彼德邓恩在为出售国有资产鼓吹时使用的字眼是用来迷惑选民的，这使得他处于更加不光彩的位置。
虽然彼得•邓恩说他决不会投票支持出售国有水资源的控制权，但现实情况是，一旦我们开始往出售资产的滑坡滑下去，就不能保证未来会发生什么。
彼得•邓恩根本不重视纽西兰的未来，他只重视为他自己的未来筹谋。
而彼得•邓恩支持国家党只是为了确保他自己的政治生涯。他的指导原则是：“我第一”。 彼得•邓恩将会作为一个以其手中一票巴结国家党而出卖了纽西兰人的人物而史册留名。(译者注：科斯格罗夫提出的预警已成为现实，国有资产出售案果然因为彼德邓恩的一票成为定局。)
(霍建强议员办公室 供稿) Clayton COSGROVE SOEs Spokesperson
26th of June 2012
MEDIA STATEMENT
0.6 per cent Dunne selling New Zealanders out
Unless Peter Dunne puts Kiwi interests ahead of his own, the casting vote to sell our state-owned power companies and national airline will be delivered by a party that gained 0.6 per cent of the vote at the last election, says Labour SOEs spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove.
“Eighty per cent of New Zealanders don’t want our state-owned assets sold.
“If Peter Dunne makes it possible for them to be sold with his casting vote, it will be a travesty of democracy.
“His United Future Party gained just 13,443 votes nationwide at the 2011 election,” Clayton Cosgrove said. “To put that in perspective, he gained only 1705 more votes than the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party. Imagine the outcry if that party was in a position to decide such a critical issue as the very future of assets we have built up and proudly own.
“Peter Dunne’s position is even more disreputable because he campaigned on the asset sales issue using language designed to confuse voters.
“He said he would never vote to sell control of our water assets, but the reality is that once we start down the slippery slope to asset sales, there can be no guarantee what will happen in the future,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“Peter Dunne is not in the business of looking out for New Zealand’s future, however. He’s interested in his own future, and that’s all.
“If he thinks the best way of securing that is to line up with the National Party, that’s what he will do,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“His guiding principle is ‘me first’.
“Peter Dunne will go down in history as the man who gave the National Government the one vote they needed to sell New Zealanders out.”