A recently published book ‘100 Days – Claiming Back New Zealand movement' by Amy Brooke rings alarm bells. It adds to warnings from recent letter writers and urges consideration of a different, public-friendly governmental system, which has been successfully and profitably practised in Switzerland for many years – where the tail no longer wags the dog.

Amy warns, as many letter writers have, behind the scenes, the Government/Maori party collaboration is placing NZ at serious risk in its deal-making , with aims to 'entrench a constitution which could contain all the undemocratic distortions of input from the radicalised part-Maori minority only” and that, 'we could count on its ‘principles' being in direct contradiction of the Treaty of Waitangi's establishing of the same rights for all citizens under the Crown”.

Amy deals earlier with an expose of the deterioration of our government into an undisguised, dictatorial, John Key-dominated system, (just as with Helen Clark), as we've been observing with increasing concern. The public's expressed wishes are being casually ignored – inevitably, I believe, at the expense of NZ's progress and actual protection against foreign takeover.

John shows no loyalty to NZ's public – demonstrated by his the effrontery and arrogance to openly laugh at a democratic referendum. He stated categorically he'll just ignore the results – allowing graciously they may proceed – knowing the huge effort and involvement of concerned citizens whom he has chosen on oath to serve; not to mention the referenda's substantial cost.

Remember, John isn't obliged to stay in NZ; who knows what tempting future is in the pipeline?

So, citizens of NZ, what confidence should we have in the behind-the-scenes shenanigans?