Jacinda Ardern and her team have done a good job overall with the pandemic crisis. However I have grave concerns for our economy if Labour is re-elected.

A simple example.

Shortly after the last election Labour, and presumably the Greens, made a decision that there would be no more oil exploration licences granted in New Zealand. Jacinda roared off to the United Nations and made that announcement as New Zealand being the first country in the world to make such a bold step. She was lauded in the press but one wonders what the leaders of most nations really thought?

That decision was disastrous. New Zealand is dependent on net oil imports for our economy and yet we were shooting ourselves in the foot by not producing oil and its derivatives to minimise our import requirement.

Further, the oil exploration companies - private enterprise taking the risk - knowing the Labour Government's anti-oil view, immediately reduced their economic activity in the Taranaki region. Jacinda then had to make various regional grants to prop up the Taranaki economy.

Labour and their cohorts have no idea of what the world is really about in an economic sense. We taxpayers suffer!

Bill Capamagian, Tauranga