Comrade Prime Minister

"Life is but a game they say so play it all you will have another drink my friend but don't send me the bill."                     Broughton Dear Prime Minister.                          I wish you no personal harm. The days of your Labour Party ruling New Zealand are just about over.  We the people, are tired of your dictatorial repressive legislation.  Your unjustified attacks on the freedoms we all take for granted, has caused about a million people to move offshore.  That's about 20% of the population who have raised two fingers to your administration.  Yet nothing sinks into your wooden heart.  Is playing petty politics your sole aim in life?  Don't the people count? The quality of your Ministers is pathetic.  Ninety nine percent of the time they are neither Right nor Honourable.  Your appointment of opposition party politicians as Cabinet Ministers was a rather obvious deception to remain in power when you failed to obtain the majority vote.  You relied upon their egos overcoming their ingrained philosophies and to hell with honesty and decency.  Most of the world shook its head when you appointed a known Asian hater as Minister of Foreign Affairs.  Do you really think anybody important is going to take the slightest notice of him, or New Zealand? Like prohibition in the United States, your anti smoking policy is doomed to failure.  Speak Easy's that allow smoking are spring up all over the place, and there's nothing you can do about the people telling you where to go.  You cannot change human nature with idiot legislation.  Your Seabed and Foreshore Act is totally stupid.  The Maori people have successfully looked after the coastline for many years.  Do you think some bureaucratic halfwit committee can do better? New Zealand has always been a bureaucratic daydream, with twice as many civil servants as needed.  Now you have increased the numbers by 23%.  Are you trying to buy votes?  Why don't you spend the money collected from gasoline taxes on the roads?  Then we wouldn't have traffic congestion problems.  The 1.2 billion you collect from tobacco taxes is a ripoff. Only 200 million is spent on so called smoking related diseases, yet you deny genuine cancer sufferers life saving drugs because of the cost. New Zealanders are tired of the endless committees, political and bureaucratic arrogance. Your justice system is based around the court processes being more important than truth, and is largely a fund raiser.  Do we really need to have the second highest number of jail inmates in the world?  Just what is being achieved apart from an increase in youth suicide? Inflation is caused largely by the highest interest rates in the western world, and your government and local body charges.  Why does everything your government does have to be based around money gathering?  For Christ sake, you couldn't even be bother popping across the Tasman to support our athletes for the Commonwealth Games.  If your lack of credibility was taxable, it would be worth a fortune.  To be fair, the only credible thing you've done is stay out of the Middle East war.  But I guess that would cost too much money.  With political violence looming at home, you will need the armed forces to protect your fantasies from the fists of the disillusioned people. New Zealand doesn't belong to you. If you last till the next election, your Labour Party is going to be in opposition for many years.  Time for a little reality, Comrade Prime Minister.