Suddenly Seymour.

And his Little Shop of Horrors.

I know Seymour's the greatest
But I'm dating a semi-sadist
So I've got a black eye
And my arm's in a cast.

Still, that Seymour's a cutie
Well, if not, he's got inner beauty
And I dream of a place
Where we could be together at last..

How are you feeling about David Seymour, six months after the election?

A year from now he’ll become the next deputy PM - assuming Winston’s Trumpian behaviour hasn’t reached full on resisting the transfer of power by then.

Actually such a renegotiation would not surprise me. I can’t seen Winston happily playing second fiddle to Seymour, growing less relevant leading into the next election.

But let’s just assume that the coalition agreement remains intact and Seymour does become deputy. That means that when Christopher Luxon is overseas, bad mouthing our country as he does, David Seymour will be the acting Prime Minister. The leader of our nation.

How does that feel Aotearoa? Suddenly Seymour, that twerking ventriloquist’s dummy with the Taxpayers’ Union’s hand up its butt doesn’t seem so comical any more. Come to think of it, with all the lobbyists and other ventured interests up in there that steering cavity must be mighty crowded.

This man who has dragged National into the sorts of issues that used to be the preserve of the Republican party in the US. Pouring petrol on the flames of racism, and demonising and seeking to punish those most vulnerable.

A man who exists to push the interests of the one percent at the expense of the other 99%. That’s the bloke who’ll be in charge.

To be fair someone has to Save The Rich…

There’s a familiar sounding line in the third verse of that song, “Without there seventh home how will they make it through…”. But we’re not talking about Luxon, this is about the rat under his hat pulling the levers.

The first verse of the song is all ACT:

Everyone knows these times are really tough
And we need to band together and say we've had enough
All the jobless people need to learn to be content
'Cause what we need to do is protect our one percent

The chorus a clarion call to ACT voters. It could’ve been their campaign song:

Save the rich
It's so easy to do
Just let yourself be ignorant
To what's been done to you

Or if they wanted something a little merrier they could’ve pranced about in tunics saying “we give to the rich, and we rob from the poor”.

On April 1st the government’s benefit changes came into effect, the crowning glory of their first 100 days.

Those living on such payments, and those working for the lowest wages, will find themselves going backwards. The pitiful increase to the minimum wage, for example, is just 2%, which is far less than the rate of inflation.

An awful lot of people are going to be worse off this year as a result of the coalition prioritising things like tax cuts for property investors. Meanwhile the government is paying Steven Joyce $4,000 per day.

I guess Nicola needed an expert to help with holes, and Joyce sure knows all about those. Even when they aren't there and nobody else can see them. This one should be quite easy for him though, you can probably see Nicola’s fiscal hole from outer space.