A final shopping list for PM John Key

A shopping list for John Key for a few quick changes before he leaves on Monday.

1. Withdraw the bill on district health boards ’’deciding’’ on mass fluoridation. Provide free fluoridated toothpaste to those that want it if you must but to sentence Kiwis to this form of mass medication is completely unacceptable.

2. Withdraw the Natural Health Products Bill. Let people make their own decisions.

3. Stop the fracking: it poisons the earth and encourages earthquakes.

4. Clean up the waterways and lakes. Respect the environment. No compromises.

5. Stop the GMOs coming in. Turn this country into the organic breadbasket of the world.

6. Clip the ticket on every tourist that visits ($50 per person) and charge visitors for entry to key national parks. Pay that money to local councils and DOC to be able to properly deal with these guests that get so much for nothing.

They will continue to come but it is unfair for ratepayers and DOC to pick up the bills on escalating tourism infrastructure.

7. Turn the tap off the ridiculous levels of immigration. It’s not good for our country. It’s a tax grab for now that will cost immense amounts in infrastructure in the future.

8. Crank up the restrictions on foreign buyers. Allow Kiwis to buy homes in their own country again rather than these foreign buyers coming in and purchasing 25 to 30 homes in Akl in a weekend and then putting them all up for rent.

9. Don’t forget Kiwis in Christchurch and Kaikoura who are still struggling. Help them to rapidly get what they are owed from insurance companies and the Earthquake Commission.

10. Allow the expert miners to enter the Pike River mine as volunteers to provide closure for these devastated families who wish for this.

11.Ease up on the stifling everincreasing laws and restrictions before all Kiwis are carrying clipboards and wearing hi-vis jackets, too scared to do anything. Mary Hobbs

Aoraki-Mt Cook