The other day I went to a gathering which should have been three times as big.

At one stage I commented that since the incorrect Treaty of Waitangi was put into law in 1975, every Government from that time has been corrupt in some way, as they have all known of that falsehood and none have been prepared to do anything about it. (In fact, the truth has been hidden away and carefully discredited).

The present Government is, without doubt, the most corrupted.

I wish to make it perfectly clear that the above situation is not their fault.

It is ours!

We are a stupid, apathetic and useless lot, who are far too well off for our own good. We have referendums in which we never get more than a miserable 300,000 odd involved, so no wonder our ‘servants' treat us with such total arrogance.

Until this country rises up as a whole and a million or more of us demand change, we will continue to be treated like the ‘fopdoodles' we are.

And frankly, it serves us right!

R. McGuinness, Tauranga.