National pulls swifty on public - today's letter

In today's Southland Times Labour's Rino Tirikatene said,
"The backdown with the education policy shows you the power you have by mobilising and coming together for a common purpose to effect change."
Tirikatene's call to arms caused our resident Nat MP Eric Roy to have conniptions and splutter, "He's dreaming! We have a mandate! We Have a Mandate!!", or words to that effect.
Mr Tirikatene's statements complimented my letter that ran today, where I did my bit to alert Southlanders to the Government's manoeuvrings around asset sales, thus:

 "National has learned from its 'bigger classes are better for you' mistake. When ordinary New Zealanders rose up and said no to the Government's badly thought-out plan to crowd classrooms to save a few dollars, National saw that giving the public a chance to speak was dangerous. At the same time opposition to their selling our assets has grown rapidly as people realise how foolish that plan is. National is now acting urgently to try to seal the deal before New Zealanders, owners of the assets, can gather their thoughts and do what they did to the 'crowded classrooms' scheme; stop it in its tracks. The process of hearing submissions from the public has been cut short by several weeks. The 'sell assets' legislation is to be fast-tracked, heard under urgency. National is scrambling to prevent New Zealanders from having their say."