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Over left-leaning vitriol

Gisborne Herald
23 Oct, 2023 04:29 PMQuick Read

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A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

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Re:  Cruel policies, more poverty — October 18 letter.

I am all for the right for others to have differing political views to my own, but Mary-Ann de Kort has been banging away almost nightly in the letters to the editor with her left-leaning, inaccurate vitriol for the thick end of six years and I, and many others, are over it.

The final straw was in last Wednesday’s paper when she wheeled out more of her blatantly inaccurate take on the woes of New Zealand under a National coalition government.

She needs to be put on mute until she at least knows what she is talking about in facts, not just her pretty warped political position.

I don’t for one minute believe any political party gets everything right, but we can clearly lay the blame on her Labour government for the shocking stats on race relations, government spending, poor delivery of services and downright failure to deliver on almost every major announcement they have made, from crime prevention to new housing, light rail and an alternative harbour bridge, to name a few.

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Then, in this letter, to basically accuse all the people who voted for change of being idiots really shows she has little or no understanding of how democracy works.

We all convincingly chucked your lot out because your government was a dismal failure . . . pure and simple.

There is an old adage that correctly advises, “Tis better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Give it a whirl girl, you may hear something intelligent.

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P.S. I am also getting really offended that she seems to  blame white males for everything.

Murray Ferris

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