No, it's not Tuesday, and hopefully this is going to be the quickest poem I've ever written—and all because I HATE absolutely LOATHE corporates and big money lobbying (bribing & or threatening) politicians to act against the best interests of us—the people the politicians are supposed to be serving.
Bought
Well, the ciggy people bought our pollies
And now we have the smokes
Death and taxes is the joke
But the doctors aren't laughing.
And oil bought the roads but we can't know
How or why
Just that the roads must happen while our ferries die
While tourists and families are stranded.
And the landlords stormed the parliament and
Gave themselves a rise
While starving children of their lunches
And eating Bellamy pies
Yes, they deny children while troughing it on the public dime.
And so those pollies are so happy
They've raided NZ lives for their greed
And the lobbyists are happy
They've paid pennies to make billions for big company greed
While our public servants are fired including those protecting our primary industries from tragedy.
So this post is to inform you
That this very Monday eve at 5pm 8 April
Is the deadline to say enough
We don't want bribery to succeed.
Yup this is a last-minute PSA: Monday 5pm is the deadline for responses to the lobbyists gutting of the proposed lobbying code of conduct that we so desperately needed to keep bribery and the revolving door in line.
