Where do Kiwis go to study the art of misinterpreting reality? Here we have Building and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith and Prime Minister John Key saying there isn't a housing crisis in NZ when there is. Nicky said: 'The cost of buying a house today is lower than it has ever been”.

Well Nicky, I built my first house in 1962 I was earning 18 quid a week and my mortgage – at five per cent – was three pound ten a week. I had plenty of money left in my pocket after paying the mortgage and my wife was working too; we were well off.

I would like to see anyone on the minimum wage have the ability to pay off an $800,000 mortgage on the minimum wage. Can you show us how?

Then we have a Greenie saying NZ should match Holland in doing away with petrol and diesel cars. Holland is about the size of Otago and villages and towns are yards apart over there compared to here. For Goodness sake there is only one hill in Holland unlike here where there are only a couple of flat roads. An electric car would only be of any use NZ in places like our three major cities.

It would be impossible to situate enough charging stations across NZ to keep the NZ fleet running as it is today. They could do well to promote them in Auckland Wellington and Christchurch but certainly not for say Eketahuna. How would a farmer from way out in the back blocks get home in time to milk the cows when his battery ran out?

One needs to bear in mind that telling fact Holland is flat, there is only one hill in the whole country, so not much power is wasted on climbing hills like here in NZ. More thought is needed here I think. What are they smoking in the Beehive one wonders?

A Bourne, Bethlehem.