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Monday, March 21, 2011

Takutai Moana Bill: into the mouth of hell

Pita and Tariana still look set to launch their charge of the caucus light brigade into the valley of electoral death tomorrow afternoon. Half a wit, half a wit onward rode the four...

As Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote of the Crimean fiasco there was never any hope - it was over before it began - it was a tragic folly that should never have been attempted. The suicidal parallels of the Maori Party's caucus commitment to National's foreshore and seabed solution in the political sphere differ from Tennyson's poem only slightly - the caucus knows full well every aspect of the engagement and the damage it will do. It makes their stance all the more incomprehensible.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?


- Yes, Hone Harawira for a start: the only one with an independent mind and conscience who turned his horse around when he had figured out what lay up the valley.

Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:


- Well the soldiers, the caucus and members of the party, know now well enough. The blunder was to set and stick to a flimsy bottom line, eroded away further by National's subsequent amendments. And the caucus response:

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:


- Every press release and public statement - and private statement as far as I know - keeps them on this path of destruction.

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred four halfwits.


These halfwits actually have to make it through several valleys of death. Their unsightly parade of whoredom to the membership has sparked revolt and dismay at branch level up and down the country. Iwi and hapu organisations have been spurned and are adamantly opposed. With all those battles raging on the rear flank the hikoi will get their chance on the field to directly confront them before debate on the bill is resumed.

CannonHide to the right of them,
Cannon Hone to the left of them,
Cannon Hikoi in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd A shamed party munted;
Storm'd at with shot and shell, Struck dumb under a Tory spell,
Boldly Badly they rode vote and well... oh well... they had made a deal,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred four halfwits.


The only ones to honour any charge they made will be National:

When can their glory ignominy fade?
O the wild charge bad law they made!
All the world The UN wondered,
Honour the charge they made Treaty that was made,
Honour the Light Brigade Remember the rights betrayed,
Noble six hundred. Ignoble four halfwits.

1 Comments:

At 22/3/11 8:41 am, Blogger Bomber said...

Their unsightly parade of whoredom to the membership has sparked revolt and dismay at branch level up and down the country. Iwi and hapu organisations have been spurned and are adamantly opposed.

If the opposition is as high as you suggest, what will the numbers be in todays Hikoi into Wellington?

 

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