We're days away from another general election and the prospect of who'll get in frightens me. Time for a change?

All parties are vying for your vote, making promises they know they cannot keep. Trying to outdo one another with their ludicrous unaffordable promises, telling you to vote for them. You'll be much better off as will the environment, country and everyone in it. Bollocks! If all these promises are affordable now, why not earlier when they were needed? We hear the same ol' same ol' every election.

If you're on the bottom rung of the financial ladder you'll be no better off with any of them. Wages need to increase, rents decrease, as does the cost of a new home, but that won't happen.

It doesn't matter which party wins, there'll always be losers. Not everyone will get what they want, some will be much better off: a lot won't be if six new taxes are introduced. Maybe GST will increase, who knows? No one has mentioned that one – yet! We need more taxes like a hole in the head. We're overtaxed as it is. Six more – no thanks smiley.

The minor parties offer nothing, time for a change? Yeah nah!

S Gussey, Omokoroa.