Derek Mackie: If only....Chris!

This is my appeal to the National leader to step up to the plate and throw off his woke cloak.  

Don't be afraid to stand up for values that not so very long ago were mainstream and the cornerstones of our society, but in these topsy-turvy times have become either openly reviled or seriously questioned.

Come on, Chris!

If you can keep your head, when all about you, 

     The media are losing theirs and blaming you; 

If you can stop apologising when they doubt you, 

     Stand firm instead, nor waver too; 

If you embrace wide-ranging views within your party, 

     Without the need to censure and chastise; 

And reject that “single source of truth” malarkey 

     Be accepting of opinion, and in your actions wise: 

If you can dream of everyone as equal, 

     Regardless of their ethnic kith-and-kin; 

If you can read The Treaty, not the sequel 

     And see us all as Kiwis, not the colour of our skin; 

If, to you, co-governance means discord 

     And entitlement enjoyed by just a few; 

Not “progressive” or enlightened, only backward, 

     A tribal past revived, with all its faults anew: 

If you can stand the modest heat from global warming 

     And keep cool amidst the wild alarmist hype; 

If, to you, science should be challenged if found wanting, 

     And, on evidence, be based - our guiding light; 

If the Bill of Rights you honour and hold dear 

     Ensuring all your fellow citizens free will; 

You can’t then with needles, force and stab them, out of fear, 

     For loss of freedom is aye a bitter pill: 

If you define a woman without pause, 

     And are not woke by loud transgender screams; 

If free speech, to you, is a Right and noble cause 

     Race and hate - the darlings of the Left, it seems; 

If you can fill your every thought and waking minute 

     With sixty seconds common sense and reason run; 

Yours is New Zealand and everything that’s in it, 

     And—what’s more—you could be the Man, Luxon! 

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Derek Mackie is a former geologist with a keen interest in current affairs and a penchant for satire.