You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government
Responding to questions about plans to overhaul the social housing system, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said tenants had “won the Lotto”. Later on Thursday evening however, she said she regretted saying it.
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“You’ve won the lotto!” the Finance Minister says, rifling through your empty fridge to check for champagne.
She apologised for saying it, but there is a truth about National’s welfare vandalism, You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government.
Only in politics can poverty be rebranded as luck—“You’re not struggling, you’re just pre-rich.”
So the new jackpot is: three numbers, two balls, and one letter from the ministry saying your rent just doubled?
Nothing says windfall like being charged more for the same leaking roof!
Luck Egalitarianism isn’t a welfare system.
Public Housing was once a safety net—turns out it’s more like a trapdoor with a timer!
