RE: Gareth Morgan's The Opportunities Party. The NZ political scene - local and central - is littered with giants of ineptitude. Now we have another group sticking their heads above the parapet of lunacy, who want to tax people out of their houses and onto the waiting list and sleeping in cars as long as they don't have too much equity in the car and be forced out of that too. Surely to God even the average joe looking for a village can see that once someone has scraped together a deposit for a house he or she would not be able to afford to pay a tax on their miserably small equity in the house - and so be forced out of that hard earned house. Wake up lads and listen to the rustle of the banknotes and leave politics to those of some degree of common sense. Worse, of course, would be the pensioners who are now freehold after a life's hard work could be forced out of the homes because they couldn't possible pay such as tax out of the small pension they live on.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.