Polity: National cuts charity funding because charity criticises National

• notices and features
• 10 years ago
• Categories: you couldn't make this shit up
• Tags: gambling, polity, SkyCity

This is awful. The government has cut funding to the Problem Gambling Foundation, and National MP Tau Henare says on twitter it is because the PGF “criticises” too much.

Apparently National doesn’t like it when a charity set up to minimise problem gambling has an opinion about what causes problem gambling. Idiots.

Update:

A screenshot of the tweet: