Well the Local body elections are here again...and all the hyperbole that goes with it.
I will vote, it is my right, but the synic that I have grown into knows oh so well the futility of it all.
Definitely not for the candidates, they have an inner strength that I cannot analyse. Bless them.
But are you aware that folk who have issues right now with council will be put back months and months while all this goes on. The poncing and rethoric, the breast beating and the parading.
Please spare a thought for four or five residents, flooded out in Matua, who wait a daily; their only problem being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Trying to live in houses damaged by water and sewage that poured through their properties months ago.
While the council fiddles - with candidates running to be elected in the local body elections - these families try for answers, just for a decision that may bring an end to the constant thought that the next big storm, brings more water - more duck shoving while their elected representatives, can't, or wont make a decision on their futures.
Water torture has nothing on this (my apology, no pun is intended).
I challenge the new candidates to answer this and search their minds for just what they will do. If anything.

Maryrose Bell, Matua.