Waimakariri MP Matt Doocey says he’s disappointment over an anonymous note sent to a local resident.

The note called the resident a “lowlife” for advertising a National Party hoarding on their residential fence.

The note says “nine years of National running our infrastructure into the ground and Labour steering us through the biggest crisis in our lives and you respond by advertising National?”.

“You have a short memory, you lowlife.” 

Waimakariri MP Matt Doocey says it’s disappointing a local resident, who is exercising their legal right of political expression, by putting a National Party sign on their fence is receiving intimidating notes and being called a “low life” by someone who doesn’t have the conviction to put their name to their claims.

He says “ clearly, the writer of these notes has just moved into the Waimakariri if they are not aware of the huge infrastructure investments Waimakariri received under the former National government including two new motorways (and a third motorway planned that the current Labour government has cancelled), three-laning of the Waimak bridge, a new school and a large number of new school classrooms, a new hospital and the roll out of UFB to name a few projects.

He says “compared to the record of this current Labour government, where Waimakariri has received no infrastructure investment, no infrastructure visits from Government ministers and we have learned recently that Canterbury has received only $159 million, or 2.3 per cent, of the government’s $6.8 billion worth of transport funding, even though it has about 13 per cent of the nation’s population.”