Watching the four contenders for the Labour Party's leadership on TV One's ‘Q+A' programme on Sunday was a laugh.

All four contenders – Andrew Little, Craig Robertson, David Parker and Nanaia Mahuta – had all the answers to solve the party's problems of not being able connect Labour policies with voters. They all had ways to fix this, yet they all had a chance to fix this woe in the election just gone – they all ran in it.

The answer is to scrap all these failed wannabes and get someone new, with a fresh head, fresh approach and clean slate. Apart from National all other parties had failings in the election – and they need to get themselves in order to get voters real options next time round. Will three years be long enough for them to do this?

K Morland, Katikati.