Wednesday, 16 August, 2023 - 19:28"Chris Hipkins’ self-proclaimed "watershed moment" has turned out to instead be a case of him being completely outsmarted by a global corporation’s greenwashing PR strategy," says ACT Leader David Seymour. "Chris Hipkins’ self-proclaimed "watershed moment" has turned out to instead be him being outsmarted by a global corporation’s greenwashing PR strategy," says ACT Leader David Seymour. "Hipkins has fallen for the oldest trick in the book, he has played the role of hapless, starstruck politician to perfection. Sadly, it seems like his Government’s policies of burning more coal weren’t what attracted Blackrock, more likely it was his Government’s naivety and willingness to be pawns in a giant greenwashing PR campaign. "ACT predicted this was the case, I said at the time "Effectively banning people from using fossil fuels is virtue signalling on a global scale using other people’s money."
