Now, when Butler turns up to a protest, the police presence intensifies. "Recently Iain Lees-Galloway said that the government is not going to be able to read the TPPA before it's signed in New Zealand so I am really disappointed in Labour." "Labour came on our marches, they spoke at select committees and they spoke at political debates and the main criticism they had was around the National government's secrecy of the TPPA and 'how could National sign something no-one knew anything about' and now Labour is doing exactly the same thing," she says.
They've managed to change 22 of the thousand plus clauses but they've just been suspended, not removed, pending the United States re-entry, so most of the concerns we had are still current." Jacinda is lovely but I've looked into the finer details and I think it's essentially the same agreement. "I think the current TPPA is absolutely awful and I'm really upset about it. While she wouldn't throw a dildo at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Butler would throw "compelling arguments". She ended up turning the sprinkler on Al Jazeera to get them off her lawn in the end."Īs an activist, Butler describes her "top 3" concerns as "TPPA, rivers, Pike River". She told them 'if you don't get off my property I'll turn the sprinkler on you'. Al Jazeera turned up at my mum's house and camped out. "They were concerned that I was handling all the attention OK. Overwhelmed by media attention, Butler says her workplace was "supportive". I think there was a bit of divine intervention because certainly in my practice runs my aim wasn't that good." As far as taking a dick to the face, he took it very well." "I haven't spoken to Steven Joyce personally but from what I've seen I thought he took it bloody great.
I thought 'people are definitely going to die because of that' and that is what really motivated me." "I thought 'I am working with people who can barely afford to eat a lot of times and for them to have this cost on top of them it's not going to be feasible'. Activist clarifies: it's a squeaky toy, not a dildo