Well here's anarchist policy on benefit cuts/abolition:

'There are heaps of alternatives we can work on while the benefit and student allowances last (I can't imagine Labour OR National will be keeping them for long) so that when we do lose them, we'll still be able to stand, stand even stronger.'

And what follows is a list of tips for living on the smell of an oily rag, including dumpster diving. Back to the 1920s, before proper unemployment relief, when unemployed lived on or over the brink of malnutrition. I'm not interested in adopting a vegan/alternative lifestyle or living off the land. I want to keep benefits available and increase them, so that I can fall back on them if I lose my job. It is the working class which creates the corporate wealth which is taxed (inadequately!) and goes into the benefits system and other parts of the welfare state and the health system. I say raise company tax and restore benefits to (in real terms) what they were before the '91 cuts. Just accepting that benefits will be abolished and getting on with organising for living with extreme poverty is really not going to appeal to your average NZ worker, who knows that the economy has been doing well up til this year and has seen profits rise and unemployment fall. We should ask for a bigger share of the cake, not walk away from the table and look for scraps in the local rubbish bin (or dumpster).