We have the some of the wealthiest businesses in the country, multi-national corporations, who have legally stashed all their money into charitable trusts, and thus pay no income tax at all! How is that democratic?

In 2001 Michael Cullen, proposed that trading operations of charities be taxed.

This never happened - and since tribal organisations are based on blood ties, they failed the common law public benefit test.

But, as a result of intense lobbying, the Labour Government changed the law, enabling them to gain charitable status.

Perhaps it's time we called for the trading operations of charities to be taxed - as proposed by Michael Cullen!

I hope that one day we will be a country where we all live as one united people, in a true democracy, each with our own culture, and where we respect each other, and are all treated the same regarding race, gender and religion!

To quote Abe Lincoln: ‘Not matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens!”

R Bishop, Pyes Pa