I think R Chamberlain of Otumoetai's letter ‘Winston Trump Peters' (Friday, August 25) likening Winston Peters to Donald Trump, unfair. NZ First policies have appealed to a lot of people for many years, myself included.

I think net immigration of 70,000pa is what is causing the housing problem, poverty, low incomes and infrastructure overload and I don't think I'm racist in saying so. I love the Gold Card, the promised removal of the tolls on two of the three New Zealand toll roads, the past removal of the tolls on the harbour bridge and the removal of the surcharge on my mother's superannuation pension when I was her caregiver for nine years. I also approve of the promise of NZ First to re-open the Napier-Gisborne rail link and maintain the Auckland-Whangarei one.

Whereas Jacinda is openly in favour of Act's David Seymour legalising medically-assisted euthanasia, and also partial abortion (destroying the foetus as the ‘foetus' (baby) is being delivered at nine months). Jacinda's 160kph high-speed rail link to Auckland has not been costed (will cost untold millions) and is just plain potty – the equivalent of Donald Trump's wall. Winston as Tauranga's MP was always available, as is Clayton Mitchell. I had to wait three months earlier this year if I wanted to see Simon Bridges.

H Rhodes, Tauranga.