NZ election 2023 live: ACT announces welfare policy, targets drug addicts and mentally illThe ACT Party has released its welfare policy today, which calls for benefits to be taken off people who can’t work due to drug addiction or mental illness and aren’t seeking support. ACT are slipping in the Polls, so they do what the Right does best – bash the dirty filthy bennies! Targeting drug addicts and the mentally ill is so on brand for ACTs petty fascism, what the play is privatisation of welfare. This is welfare privatisation using drug addicts and the mentally ill as the punching bag. This isn’t a welfare policy, it’s a fucking right wing revenge fantasy.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 16, 2023 03:55 UTC