Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby
Kate Hawkesby: The cost of living crisis is so bad, I'm being hustled at the petrol station
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I find the debate about whether we’re in a cost of living crisis at the moment fascinating, because it’s exactly the sort of thing Ardern would’ve argued vehemently when in opposition – yet because she’s currently in government, is denying. No cost of living crisis, according to her. Yet as the Wellington City Missioner said yesterday, anyone who says there isn’t one, is someone who’s doing OK. It’s easy to get removed from that kind of reality when you’re someone on the PM’s wages driving an electric car and never pushing your own trolley round a supermarket wondering how you’ll pay for your groceries. But this crisis is being borne out, if not to you personally, then certainly all around you - and maybe we should be a bit more mindful of it. Which is why I beat myself up yesterday after my petrol station hustle. Well, I thought it was a hustle – and that’s part of the problem. With increasing desperation comes increasing crime, and that makes people wary. Having had our garage broken into twice, and seei