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Given that people absolutely dread living next to a KO property, and one was burnt down recently, possibly by a local resident, they could definitely use a kick up the ass.
Maybe, but National is basically promising to spend more money on putting families in motels again.
Anything but that. This annoys me so much. Its a massive drain on resources to be paying motel rates, it screws up tourism because there's no vacancies, its bad for the people in there because it's temporary living and not a home, its bad for motel owners..
Yeah, they'll just be fucking up in a different way to Labour.
A few months back I was an undecided voter. Now I think I'll vote for the status quo and wait for a better offer to come along next election.
Labour has actually made some important changes that support a long term better country. This National's policies as so short sighted they don't seem to look past the election that's just next month.
That's because they will base national policy on the fact that one KO house burned down and you hate people who live in them.
Better that those people live in the street eh? Maybe you think we should just cull them.
I don't think underfunding them is going to help.
It's unlikely to even save money, as it's going to cost the taxpayer more in motels and shady private lodging houses, let's not forget a private lodge burnt down too and killed people.
It's also going to cost more in endless medical bills for child respiratory infections, some of which cause lifelong complications.