Go forth and multiply. So commandeth the leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon. Your country needs you to breed. “We need people,” he said.
“Here is the deal. Essentially New Zealand stopped replacing itself in 2016. I encourage all of you to go out there and have more babies if you wish. That would be helpful.”
He wasn’t really suggesting that those citizens of breeding age partake in a country-wide bonkathon. It was a joke, he had to explain. If you have to explain that you have made a joke, you haven’t made a joke. You’ve made a failed attempt at a joke.
As is widely known, Luxon is anti-abortion. As stupid failed jokes go, then,