M E D I A R E L E A S E 5 April 2010

A Dark Day for Democracy
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Open Sesame!

When Kiwis voted National in
Act rubbed their hands with glee
The dodgy Rogers, Kerr & Douglas
Moving sneakily with alacrity.

Auckland soon was gobbled up
The Key was Rodney Hide
Act snidely peed on Andrew
That made it an easy ride

Gerry Brownlee boldly told us
"The Coromandel will be mined
Great Barrier doesn't need those trees,
The Yanks are our new honey bees"

Yeah, and toxic tailings right!
Has Gerry lost his mind?

The thin edge of the wedge you see
Is not that slim at all
Extracting gold for America?
Toxic waste - our sole reward

Eco-Friendly Mining?
A contradiction in terms
Such gravitas abuse of Earth -
No trees, no birds, no worms

This silent spring of greedy men
Into the kiwi larder
Means that billions go offshore and yet
We kiwis just work harder

To comply with all their antics
First new laws and then new prisons
(See Brash is back - Mark Prebble too)
Men blinded by bad vision

Now lets get to the issue
That inspired these chosen words
'A dark day for democracy'
We blinked - and then we heard

The last good water on the globe
They nicked it - what? Absurd!
They kiboshed Ecan - just like that
Without a bloody word.

Farmer Creech just quietly screeched
And overnight closed Ecan.
Those greedy snouts in every trough
You wonder now if we can

Herd them into tiny pens
And fatten them for market
Tell them how we've had enough
Their way the country carks it!

Time to expose who really is
Behind these nasty plots
The dodgy Rogers' last time round
Roundtabled the whole lot!

Kiwis are distracted
As they always easily are
By rugby games, but hang on chaps
You seen the score so far?

Some sixty squillion dollars
And the goals? Now let us see -
Dirty rivers, ravaged land?
Or paradise - its your decree!

To steal a country's easy
Look how Bush ambushed Iraq
Act's Shock & Awe has stunned us all
We're fumbling in the dark

Our sharp intakes - though audible
Leave no breath to exclaim
First Winz new spin and ACC
The cost of food - more GST

Do you see who's to blame?

Before ranks could be formed to fight
These greedy louts nicked all our rights
The Garden City awoke to learn
The hoses are dry but there's milk to burn

You can't drink money,
You can't eat it either
Once the water's polluted
The planet suffers forever

By changing laws just overnight
And wrongly making bad laws right
We'll lose the lot - drowned in this puddle
John has the Key - but what a muddle!

Do we give way to left or right?
Or are we dazzled by bright lights
And melamined milk and toxic tailings?
Well, watch the score - can the AB's make it?

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