Don't hold back!
OPINION: ACT MP Mark Cameron isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he certainly calls it how he sees it, holding nothing back when ‘climate scientists’ had a crack at Kiwi farmers recently:
THE HOUND – like many – was rightly critical of Fonterra chairman John Wilson’s invisible-man act and unwillingness to front during last year’s not-botulism scare.
However, the prize for the most ridiculous call during the recent cream recall issue has to go to former Hamilton mayor and twice-failed Fonterra director candidate Russ Rimmington, who called for Wilson’s head. Really? Your old mate reckons Fonterra shareholders dodged a bullet by not electing Rimmington to the board. If he was so over-the-top and reactionary over a minor issue like the recall of a few bottles of cream happens; imagine what he would’ve been like in a real crisis?
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