The Battle for New Zealand
What David Lange called taking a break for tea is over. I expect that the Battle for New Zealand is about to begin. This is what Cullen has called the contest for power.Upon this battle depends the survival of Kiwi civilisation. Upon it depends our own Kiwi life, and the long continuity of our people and our ancestors. The whole fury and might of the New Zealand Labour Party and the Greens must very soon be turned on us. Clark knows that she will have to break us in this election or lose her power. If we can stand up to her, all New Zealand may be free and the life of the people may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole of our universe, including the West Island, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted social engineering and the Nanny State. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if New Zealand and the National Party last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”
Background music - an instrumental version of Now is the Hour perhaps
