‘Bill English delivering New Zealand' – this is what the hoardings proclaim. What's being delivered?

40,000 homeless; 90 per cent of burglaries unsolved; record high youth suicides;

insufficient schools, teachers, doctors, hospital beds, surgical operations; minimum wage 20 per cent below the minimum living wage; high youth unemployment; prevalent child abuse; contaminated rivers and harbours; beaches where you swim and eat seafood at your own risk; and home ownership costs beyond most young Kiwis.

Rampant immigration is the driver of much of the above, but it, along with the despoliation of our beautiful country by tourism, provides the funds. That feeds the National-led economy of our once proud land. They have had nine years to get us into this mess and it will take a government which puts the interests and welfare of all New Zealanders above those of foreign corporations, investors, immigrants and tourists to get us out of it.

P Dolden, Papamoa.