Daily review 07/09/2022
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SBL (Sound Bite Luxon) on the radio this morning:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018857735
And now ACT wants ankle bracelets on 11 year olds:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/act-party-wants-youth-offenders-who-commit-serious-offences-to-wear-ankle-bracelets.html
The opposition are desperate.
Plus dangerous, dire, dreadful, deplorable, despairing and dirty – we wuz robbed!
and doomed.
First thing some kids of 11-14 are going to want…is an ankle bracelet.
There will even be competitions……
@ Kat (1) … I can believe this from ACT. Disgraceful to say the least. Even more frightening, people will vote for this!
ACT's plan to reward ram-raiders with jewellery is just obscene!
ACT knows there is money in heirlooms….
Hahaha. I won't be the only comic wishing they'd thought of that line themselves.
Good one Robert.