The Prime Minister can resign and walk away from the lasting damage he has caused. But not so for many NZ citizens, who live below the poverty line unable to earn a living wage because wages have not kept pace with the costs of living under his eight-year tenure. No so for the first-home buyers, who have to find the equivalent of eight to 10 years' salary to purchase a place to live. No so for people on waiting lists for specialist and hospital treatments. We may be doing more operations than previously, but the demand has grown. Rampant immigration has provided the economy with a boost but has resulted in greater pressure on all our services, both social and physical. Auckland has become a place to avoid because of the traffic. Our safety is compromised both physically and materially. With physical and child abuse shaming our society. Burglaries have a clearance rate of less than 10 per cent. You are less liable to be caught committing a burglary than speeding. Race relations in this country have deteriorated since the repeal of the Seabed and Foreshore Act and our late PM's way of passing the buck to regional councils with race base committees deciding many issues, water, building consents etc. Our personal privacy has been done away with by changes to law as to what government agencies can do in surveillance of private citizens. And passes this data to other foreign agencies over which we have no control. Our troops have been deployed training Iraqi troops, who have already undergone 13 years of training by every country coerced by the United States and United Kingdom into getting involved in their major catastrophes. Our labour laws have changed to suite foreign investors to the detriment of New Zealanders. Our sovereignty has been secretly negotiated away to multinational corporations under the guise of a trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Yes the PM can walk away, but the damage remains. The neoconservatives have been ousted in the US. Perhaps our very astute, and he is very astute, PM has seen the writing on the wall?

P Dolden, Papamoa.