A quick word

Here’s a fun thought. David Seymour defects to National and becomes leader. I wonder how the 500,000 defaulting National voters at the last election would respond? Colin Nicholls, Mt Eden.

The “example” set by the PM simply encourages more of the behaviours that have created a shortage of vaccines for the vulnerable in the community in the first place.

Wendy Campbell, Lynfield.

Incentives for jabs are all undone when viewing nightly the many close-up jabs shown on TV.

Pam Grant, O¯ rewa.

Those who waste food (Weekend Herald, June 19) have presumably never lived in wartime or suffered hardship. “Bubble and squeak”, a mixture of left-overs cooked in a frypan, was one of our favourite childhood dinners. Pamela Russell, O¯ ra¯kei.

What on earth has Phil Goff done (Weekend Herald, June 19) to earn one of the plum diplomatic postings on offer? Paul Beck,

West Harbour.

Electric cars are so silent that they constitute a menace to pedestrians and other traffic. Is it timely to reintroduce the erstwhile requirement that they be preceded by a man waving a red flag? Peter Clapshaw, Remuera.

Following the EV car rebate announcement, inquiries for EV cars increased by 454 per cent and for utes just 3 per cent. It seems the Government and most Kiwis are reading from the same page.

R. Laybourn, Hamilton.

Can we please have a rest from Aunty Reg of Albany who uses the letters to the editor as a free platform to overtly promote the current Prime Minister? Alastair Irving, O¯ rewa.

I have had time to ruminate on John Roughan’s (Weekend Herald, June 19) comments from a different angle than when the film was first mooted and realise I had made too quick a conclusion. His writings are informative and have given me “food for thought”.

Kay Wheeler, Huapai.

If Mr Dalton sails off with NZ’s Cup to foreign shores he need not bother to sail back. Derek Smith, Newmarket.

My wife and I must have spent getting-on for $1000 on hospital car parking. On top are meals in the hospital cafeterias. These cost an arm and a leg for even a light snack. R Berrington, O¯ rewa.

Spin doctors are using the word “fee” to describe the new charges for CO2 on vehicles. The correct word is “tax” as it is a penalty to raise money imposed by a government. It is not a fee, which is a charge for services. Roger Russell, Campbells Bay.

Why hasn’t our Government shut down all those obscene commercials about utility vehicles and their owners? No other communist country would tolerate this. Graham Steenson, Whakatane.