Press Release

Bennett’s a Bloody Hypocrite

MANA Leader Hone Harawira

Tuesday 28 November 2012

"I like Paula but she’s a bloody hypocrite” says MANA Leader Hone Harawira about the Minister for Social Development’s welfare reforms.

“When she was only 19, Paula Bennett was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit but was able to buy her own house in Taupo for $56,000, courtesy of a Housing Corporation loan. Bennett said she’d worked part-time but that she “pretty much fell apart because I was exhausted. I went back on the DPB".

“But now she’s a minister it’s a different story” said Harawira.

“It was OK for Paula to go back on the DPB because it was too hard to survive, but it’s tough luck for her sisters today.”

“It was OK for Paula to get a Housing Corp loan back then, but National made sure that it’s no longer available today.”

“It was OK for Paula to stay on the DPB to raise her daughter, but she’s making sure that young woman won’t have that privilege anymore.”

“It was OK for Paula to get a paid tertiary education back then, but not today. In fact she was the Minister who abolished the Training Incentive Allowance".

"Paula Bennett basically set herself up in life with direct assistance from the state, but now she’s the Minister of Social Development, she’s gonna make sure nobody else can ever get that kind of help.”

“Her hypocrisy would be laughable, except it’s so bloody tragic.”

ENDS

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