MORGANE SOLIGNAC/STUFF
National Party leader Judith Collins joined the Blenheim rural protest in a ute, towing a digger, and then shook paws with a farm dog. “We won’t go after people who grow things, make things and help our economy grow.” When the convoys reached Seymour Square about 20 farm dogs were encouraged to add their howls to the protest. In front of the Blenheim War Memorial, Collins told the crowd: “You are the people who feed us, no farmers, no food. Thank you Groundswell for your work, it is your day, I am so proud of you. “A cenotaph is the perfect place to be talking about freedom, to own your own land, to do what you need to do.