Don’t vote for failed ideas

As I read the reports on the mid-term elections in the United States and the news out of Italy regarding their recently elected government, I am dismayed by the apparent worldwide trends. Then I read about the recent poll here in New Zealand and find that roughly 40 per cent of the oncevaunted Team of 5 Million are buying into the idea that the National Party should be the next government.

A read of Andrea Vance’s book Blue Blood should be required reading for every voter in New Zealand, not just because of the events covered but because of the underlying lack of intelligence and integrity that led to them.

Surely, we want and deserve improvements each time we elect a new government, not just more of the same or worse still, a return to previously failed ideas.

Dunstan Sheldon

Rototuna