Somebody, please think of the voters

the factors involved.

Little in the current approach of tighter rules, more policing and harsher penalties has encouraged drivers to exercise better care, consideration and judgement.

Motorists need to ‘‘buy in’’ to the risks they face, ‘‘own’’ the outcomes, and carry the responsibility for their personal errors.

They should not assume crashes will always be the fault of, and happen to, others. MIKE WILLIAMS

Tawa John Key says ‘‘I’’ too often instead of ‘‘we’’, for a democratic country.

He claims his mandates out of thin air, and the arrogance of assumptive power is plain throughout his party.

But to where else can the voter turn? To those who would protectively hug and protect fallen and rotting trees?

Or to the party that rejects superior excellence as the criteria for their candidates, in favour of a gender quota?

But who else is out there for us? The poorly-served voter deserves pity at this doleful time of votebuying, and inevitably, a future of broken promises. And the cause of low voter turnout is studiously pondered.

Voter apathy is a dangerous vacuum. And the cure of the quality and integrity of character so needed, is often not even available or is ignored by the personally selfish, believing the utopian promises of the personally ambitious. ALLAN JENKS

Wakefield