To the point

DON’T vote for any politician who doesn’t know that the past tense of text is texted!

Randal Scott

Caversham

THE fuel pipeline emergency in Auckland epitomises National’s infrastructure policy — wait till it breaks before you fix it.

Philip Temple

Dunedin

JACINDA Ardern makes her first visit to Pike River six and ahalf years after the event. It must be election year.

Brian Miller

Mosgiel

AS Labour grows from strength to strength now that Jacinda has revealed some wellcosted, humane policies to protect our vulnerable people and our environment, and pronounced that neoliberalism has failed, we should watch for a backlash. I expect fearmongering from National, like the absurd claim a water charge might cost farmers $50,000, and some dirty politics. We need skepticism when this stuff emerges.

Ewan McDougall

Broad Bay

DOES anyone else tire of Tremain’s boringly ‘‘same theme’’ cartoons day after day? I would have thought the ODT might be interested in a bit more variation and balance. Time to find someone else to share the load and give his platform a rest every now and then.

James Lovelock

Opoho

NICOLA DallyPaki was treated nearly as badly as her son by Starship Hospital and Auckland Women’s Refuge. Not one person put their hand out to help her when she was in a desperate position. We give money to Starship and Women’s Refuge for people like her to help show her the way, but I will never give money again. The way this woman and children were treated was just a disgrace.

Grier Murray

Palmerston

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