Thread: Govt Announcement on EV versus petrol today

Originally Posted by 35whelen

Does this sound familar???? Labour in early World War II. Waiting for a moment when the circumstances favoured its introduction........Flip flopping to suit it's agenda.... Then and doing it again NOW!!!

A key impetus behind establishing the New Zealand Labour Party during 1916 had been to present a more unified front against conscription. Yet in 1940, it was the First Labour Government – comprising several leaders of the 1916–1918 resistance – that decided men should again be compelled to serve. While recent studies have described this as a swift and reluctant change in attitudes occasioned by the Allied defeats in France, numerous documents and speeches suggest otherwise. Senior ministers had in fact accepted the notion of wartime conscription by 1938, before waiting for a moment when the political and military circumstances favoured its introduction.

Full article here...https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...3.2020.1811471

yes mh grandfather was especially dark about labour guys forcing him into the army in 1940.......
Never stopped mentioning it until he died.