faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark that is sad. tech bros are not ok

50% of that gain should have been taxed

Drug testing has (by design) captured all the attention, but it's nowhere near the worst bit. For more than 30 years, benefit levels have been kept lower than the cost of staying alive. On purpose. Campaigning on the back of cutting them even further is monstrous. The cruelty is the point.

"Wannabe"? This is what Paul the Other One calls "framing" (no relation) and this is utterly shit framing from the Herald. They wouldn't call an aspiring Nat or ACT candidate "wannabe", would they? Why could that be?

it was AGONISING.

Oh Ho Ho...corruption on top of corruption.

I've looked at their policy release and I cannot see how they would make this work. It's much more complicated than the Key government scheme, which only kicked in if a jobseeker declined to apply for a job which required pre-employment testing, or if such a test was failed.

JUDGE MEEEE

that debate(?) was fucked. I couldn't stomach it enough to actually get to the candidates

I hope Ricardo and Willow-Jean stuff Louise in a burlap sack and beat her with sticks (metaphorically speaking)

RNZ carrying water for the Govt again but don't you worry it's not because of all the changes and appointments and resignations

Time is a flat circle

objectively not true, and completely unhelpful to making things less oppressive. there is a clear, obvious and MEASURABLE difference between this govt coalition and a labour/greens one.

Clip from 2016 There were 37,151 tests and just 55 positive so that is approximately 0.15%