Southerners should start a political revolt,says Winston Peters

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Southerners should draw on their Scottish heritage and ''start a political revolt'' against an economic system that hurts the local economy, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters told an audience in Dunedin last night.

''When are you going to start the revolt?'' he asked the more than 50 people who attended the speech, at Age Concern Otago.

He blamed free market economics adhered to by ''dumb people in Wellington'' for job cuts at numerous Government-owned entities in the South.

Dunedin was at the centre of an export province whose wealth was effectively ''relocated''.

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