Meanwhile, almost every area of social policy is literally dying of cash starvation. Housing. Income equality. Education (or rather, the lack of it). Environment. Not everything's bad. Just all the basic stuff. Did I mention health?

So as a hard working New Zealander, I'm…

@Russell Also with those Maori seat polls, we should remember the fieldwork dates (20 out of 37 days were before Jacinda became Labour leader) and that historically Maori seat polls have been relatively positive for…

There's no need to be rude. It's just my opinion that this sort of passive details check letter can be problematic. Easy to not check the details if you think the details haven't changed.

Hence the section I've pictured above being in bold and only a handful of lines from the start of the letter. Go on believing whatever suits your…

The letter is of the type I thought – if things haven't changed then no need to do anything. Easy enough to read the first few sentences and since nothing has changed…

This would square with the stories from the likes of Liz Gunn that Hoskings basically does as he pleases and…

The truth is that the tax burden should be more equitably borne by the New Zealanders who don't have to work hard, because their income and capital, which dwarf those of hard working…

Nope. You will find a scanned copy of the standard letter here or on Kiwibog if you prefer.

Most likely it was a matter of – have your details changed – to which one would say no they haven’t. And he would have had no reason to believe otherwise.

But he…

I think a much better response is "Forget ATMs, New Zealanders are where the government gets their money from. The real question is whether it's used to help the many or the few?" (to steal another foreign slogan).

If you must buy…

(although the leading cheerleaders for us buying Infratil a fairly useless new runway are our Labour councillors in Wellington, one of whom is now running for parliament).

the aluminium smelter, movie industry or the water industry ...

Feel free to add more....

Actually I believe it's been borrowed/bought/stolen from Australian right wing parties at the last election.

I have no idea what's going on though. Peters had hundreds of deceased NZF members bequeath him their super entitlements and thought that was…

I won’t be watching any election stuff…