NZ Prime Minister - No thanks to boat people

[Booney]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10737928

Interesting stance taken by the New Zealand Prime Minister and his cabinet.

"If you're standing on a boat with signs saying 'we want to got to New Zealand' and inviting intervention, then that's a form of pressure."

He said his information came from a range of sources, but would not comment further.

"These people won't be coming to New Zealand. That's the bottom line."

Mr Key said New Zealand took in 750 refugees a year and there were no plans to expand that programme.

"That's a good programme, it basically identifies genuine refugees and they come to New Zealand and we do everything we can to make them feel at home here and start a new life here," Mr Key told TV3's Firstline.

"But once you start taking people in the form of people smugglers, then you're rewarding the bay guys, you're rewarding people who are putting other's lives at risk.

"There's no guarantee that they're actually refugees, and quite frankly you open the floodgate, which you've seen in Australia is one that you can't stop."

[Jim05]

Good on him, at least he has the balls to speak his mind. Sounds like a policy we should adopt

[Leaping Lindner]

Good on him, at least he has the balls to speak his mind. Sounds like a policy we should adopt

And we could start at the airport with the people that can't pronounce their vowels properly.

[Q.]

750 refugees. How generous. That's like 0.00001% of the world's refugee population.

[Sky Pilot]

yeah pathetic. Its John Howards fault

[Dirko]

750 refugees. How generous. That's like 0.00001% of the world's refugee population.

How many would you like the Kiwi's to take then?

At least he's being honest and up front. Sounds better then any crap our politicians are coming out with....

[Q.]

1243 sounds about right.

He should do his research, increasing the allocation would not 'open the floodgates' as research shows that it is 'push factors' that bring asylum seekers.

[Sojourner]

Considering the numbers leaving NZ after the Christchurch earthquakes for Aus, one would think that increasing the numbers of Refugees to compensate for population growth would be one strategy they could look at to turn it around.