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Hang On

Help is on its way.

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Nick Rockel
Mar 04, 2026
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Don't you forget
Who'll take care of you
It don't matter
What you do
Form a duet
Let him sing melody
You'll provide the harmony

Songwriter: Glenn Shorrock.


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Winston to the rescue.

If you watched the Foreign Minister’s latest news performance, you’d have thought he’d washed his hands of the many Kiwis still in the Middle East.

“I warned you,” he growled, over the fact that in the days prior to the Israeli/US attack on Iran, he had indeed suggested Kiwis get out quickly or hunker down. Perhaps he should have added, “and stay away from schools, they’re a legitimate target, and we won’t say diddly squat if they get bombed.”

Mass graves of Iranian school children.

“The last time we sent a plane, no one got on it”, he harrumphed as if the Kiwis that were safe by the time it arrived should have just gotten on the plane anyway to appease Peters.

Seeing the news this morning, it seems Winston’s bark is worse than his bite; the issue is that he barks a lot these days. He and the smug Jones, like a pair of feral Northland dogs barking, “Woke,” “Mexican,” “Marxist”…

Headline: "Middle East updates: NZ to send two Defence Force planes to region, US sinks Iranian warship 'Hang on, help is on its way': Short evacuation flights planned to rescue Kiwis in Middle East."
Image: Newstalk ZB.
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