Friday, 03 May 2013 16:04

Protest too much!

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THE HOUND notes that the Feds were lightning fast to distance themselves from the recent tour of New Zealand by well-known climate-change sceptic Lord Monckton.

The farmer lobby was quick to issue a media release denying it was supporting the controversial peer’s anti-climate change tour after Monckton said in a television interview that his tour was organised and supported by Federated Farmers of New Zealand. “This is incorrect,” vice president William Rolleston was quoted as saying. 

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