Heading: When it all turns to custard…

When it all turns to custard…

Now the dust has settled on the Tauranga City Council elections, let's analyse the outcome. First we have candidates re-elected, despite being discarded previously for their cavalier attitude to spiralling debt. Then we have candidates elected who support race-based representation, elected or unelected, and special race-based privileges. And last but not least, candidates who strongly supported the Civic Heart Centre with very expensive add-ons which many Tauranga residents don't want.

Oh and don't forget those candidates who are so weak-kneed, their pulses should be checked to see if they can breathe unaided by themselves.

On the mayoral side of things, the mayor elected is a nice guy but he'll want to be all things to all people and probably won't have the fortitude to say ‘no' to anyone floating special interest schemes.

This disparate group of people are what Tauranga voters have elected. Only 38 per cent voted and that apathy is appalling. So when it all turns to custard, as it inevitably will, no one wants to listen to the whinging from those that voted this lot into power or those who didn't bother to vote who are just as much to blame.

What voters got rid of were the thinkers and those who recognised the problems and were at least prepared to look at change and how to address the issues. Best of luck.

S Paterson, Arataki.

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