Political stomach
Further to Marie Kaire’s letter on living in poverty ( NZ Herald July 20) and her suggestion that politicians and CEOs should try living on government benefits for one month.
In the 1980s several serious, fly-on-thewall, TV programmes in England did just that.
Members of Parliament Ian Duncan Smith and Mathew Parris readily agreed to take part. As a result more than 25 million TV viewers watched them fail to last even the first week.
John Norris, Whangamata¯.