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The Lord Kitchener of the Environment

by Whaleoil on May 31, 2010

Nick Smith is Lord KitchenerNick Smith is right about one thing.  His mad ETS is like Gallipoli – New Zealand will storm the beach before anyone else, get slaughtered and the rest of the world will say: “Thanks New Zealand, now the rest of us know not to land on that beach.”  Nick Smith is the Lord Kitchener of our tim.

This time it will be the whole country that is slaughtered on overseas economic battlefields.

The casualties will be New Zealand industry, New Zealand farms, and New Zealand workers.

We will sacrifice New Zealand and its people for a foreign idea, to save foreign countries, for foreign reasons.

And like Gallipoli it will be all for nothing.

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  • hagues

    Yeah thats a great analogy of the situation alright.

  • kram

    Ditto the above. Might I add, the industrialists making the bombs, bullets and other accoutrements of war thought Gallipoli a hoot.

  • http://www.blairmulholland.co.nz BlairM

    Field Marshall Smith will sacrifice millions of taxpayers in the trenches just so he can move his drinks cabinet a few yards closer to Kyoto.

  • xenophon

    kram – the industrialists and makers of bombs and bullets and other accoutrements .. and according to you thought gallipoli was a hoot …. probably would have likely voted National or Act – or both more likely. In todays context they would have rabidly supported the jingoistic ramblings of this blog.

    ETS is a scam … farmers know that … the irony is that in the waterfront strikes in wellington the ‘special contables” complete with horses and batons beating unionists heads in were young farmers. All that was lacking was deaths head insignia and black uniforms. But then – later on when you need troops to die for your ideals … you need good honest working class people dont you.

    Most of you dont read history i bet – or if you do – its a highly coloured version.

    We get the government we deserve … pretence on here of presuming to ‘criticise’ national government policies doesnt wash … i thought you were the answer…???

  • kram

    Xenophon
    The “Special Constables” you mentioned were used several times against protesting working class people in the early 1900-30′s both in Auckland and Wellington.
    My Grandfather spoke of dropping marbles and nails under the hooves of the horses.
    Special constables (farmers) were not used in the 51 waterfront dispute, that was the role of the police. Soldiers and farmers were used to do the work of the striking wharfies.

    The earlier use of quasi police is one of the reasons there remains to this day a deep hated of the National Party by many old school Labourites.

  • kapow

    Does Nick really believe the crap that comes out of his own mouth about this?
    Seriously.
    Like your analogy.
    Still cant understand the way the rest of the Nats just tow the party line. They really look stupid over this.

  • thor42

    Agreed, kapow.

    This reminds me of the ***REALLY STUPID FUCKERS*** in the 1970s who (when kiwifruit were starting to get going in this country) had the “bright” idea to sell lots of cuttings of it to other countries. Well, now those countries are our competitors.
    Gee – well done, guys…..

    That’s exactly what “kiwifruit-cake” Nick Smith is doing. Welding a **GIANT FUCKING BALL-AND-CHAIN** to our economy.

  • jonno

    Let me extend the analogy a bit. I recall Kitchener was drowned when his ship was torpedoed.

    With any luck Nick Smith and his ETS will sink out of sight anytime soon.

  • spiker

    How many people have forgotten this yet?

    http://tinyurl.com/24nz6pa