More virtue-signalling for Mr. Luxon to fix

Not so long ago when Mr. Luxon was selling his vision for your vote he said National would excise the pidgin infesting government literature.  Understood by many to be along the lines of "English language first" in all public-facing documentation.  

After all, English is the language of the real world.

Recently I've had cause to interact with the IRD website as tax return filing day fast approaches this week.  It is a hotchpot of English and virtue signalling pidgin.  Every label has to be read twice to ensure that we're on the correct section.  And the front page is awash with the emboldened pidgin above the small-fonted English labelling.

They've provided an "English only" button.  Good one might think, only it does not work.  The pidgin remains embedded, infesting every page.  An easily fixed, but total implementation failure.

Meanwhile my local council (FNDC) follows the same process.  One might think we live in a country called Hairy Rower and we all utter pidgin in our daily lives.  Maybe is is because of a government directive or as is suspected, a lack thereof.

As promised in the pre-election pitches, when are you going to fix such websites, Mr. Luxon?

idea from a Good Oil General Debate comment today