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Glen Saunders's avatar

I'd vote you open up everything until the election. I know you have to be careful not to kill the subscribers' goose, but you won't lose this one by doing that. Afterwards perhaps reconsider.

The sheer lack of generosity which the Emergency Housing Contribution represents is profoundly depressing. I expect it from National and ACT. It's outrageous that it comes from Labour. The amounts are peanuts for the country but hugely oppressive for those subject to it who are living in the most fraught of circumstances and could do with a little kindness.

And, yes please, UBI. It's been explained to me many times that we cannot afford it which is just nonsense as we have it anyway. We don't let people starve but we mediate it through a punitive regime which seems to assume that we must have an expensive bureaucracy snapping at recipients' heels. Those arguing so would generally themselves work anyway. Does Luxon, for example, do it for the money? How to introduce it in stages is a challenge but solvable. We're a long way away from that. An awful election.

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Eleanor Mayer's avatar

Yes ..vote from me to open up The Kaka until the electioneering stops ..

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