Would you buy a second-hand car from any of these people: John Banks, Peter Dunne, Peter Sharples, Tania Turia and John Key?

No of course not. Because you don't trust them. Yet these are the men and women who govern our land.

Our prime minister made his fortune gambling with other people money on the foreign exchange market. He is now making money for vested interests by gambling with our money and democracy. He changed the labour laws for American film companies and the gambling laws for Sky City Casinos. In the process he bribes other members of minor party.

Peter Dunne with a cabinet post and perks for the Asset Sales, Sky City Law change, confidence and supply, and the GCSB bill support.

John Banks by assisting his passage into parliament. Ignoring Bank's blatant disregard for electoral laws and very unreliable memory. For support with confidence and supply.

Peter Sharples and Tania Turia with cabinet posts and perks. For changes to the Seabed and Foreshore Act, the Constitutional Reform Committee and support with confidence and supply.

During the term of his government an unprecedented armed raid was carried out on a New Zealand resident and his assets seized contrary to our laws. To suck up to Key's American friends.

Nobody has been held responsible and the law is to be changed to allow this sort of thing to be common place.

Many contentious bills have been passed by the smallest of margins that have and are irrevocably changing New Zealand society.

Is this democracy when are laws made and altered using bought votes in parliament?

New Zealand I believe is unique or in a small minority, with only one house of government. There is no check mechanism of an upper house like the House of Lords or the Senate.

We are missing out of that fundamental element 'By the People” in our democracy.

Numerous bills have passed against the wishes of the people lately among them Asset Sales, Sky City Casino, GCSB, Foreshore and Seabed to name but a few.

These bills have been passed by the crucial votes of people from whom you not would buy a second-hand car.

Pete Dolden, Papamoa.