The Turei affair has shown the worst of our MMP system of government. I have always opposed the system wherein MPs are not accountable to a constituency of the people. It results in a semi-closed shop organised by each party. When Metiria Turei first announced her transgression I wasn't particularly bothered, thinking she had an extra boarder/flatmate and hadn't declared it.

But I was disgusted by her sense of entitlement in wanting to both have a child and be supported on the DPB at the time she was at university. She did have alternatives to her course of action. Then the rest came out – several flatmates, a supportive family yet one of the flatmates was her mother who allegedly did not play much of a role in caring for the child. Really? This was a law student in her 20s. Maybe it was all a rort?

Things became worse when her party chose to support her yet the two Green MPs with integrity, Kennedy Graham and David Clendon, withdrew in protest and were ostracised. Next day Turei resigns as a leader but the party have turned against the two with integrity and refused to let them back in. This sort of rot is what happens with a group of unelected list MPs that doesn't have sound leadership.

I feel very sorry for all those genuine Green Party voters who deserve much better than what their MPs have dished up.

B Capamagian, Tauranga.