Parasitic Pokies

John Minto has found a new campaign target – this time parasitic loan sharks and ‘pokies’.

Now I will happily agree loan sharks charging 20%/month are parasites.

But I am quite confused as to how pokies “extract $92 million each year from the Manukau region”. Do these pokie machines jump out and hold people up? Do they forcibly extract money by stealing wallets?