Four Walls

Coalition to strip voting rights from all prisoners.

Well, I can't see and I can't hear
They've burnt out all the feelings
And I never been so crazy, and it's just my second year

Four walls, wash basin
Four walls, wash basin
Four walls, wash basin, prison bed

Songwriter: Don Walker.

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The coalition parties are mulling the austerity budget they will soon put to the nation, you can imagine the scene…

Forget lolly scrambles, a packet of chewing gum, or a block of cheese, there are no goodies in this baby. It will be grim faces, imploring belt-tightening from a public hoping for better days.

How could they dress this up to make it more appetising than the cup of cold sick Nicola Willis will offer the nation on budget day, while telling them it’s good for them?

They already have distractions out the wazoo with Winston and Shane’s war on woke, but many people are concerned that their income is not keeping pace with rising prices - and there sure won’t be anything in this budget for them.

They need something that doesn’t cost anything but will make people feel better. Not because their lives have improved, Nicola says we can’t afford to spend money on improving lives, but because other people are worse off.

They’ve already gone after gang patches and Māori rights - so what’s left?