Letter to the Editor

Promises, promises broken again!

Since helping form a Government, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been silent on many of the promises he made to get elected. Both on their website and at meetings throughout the country Mr Peters told pensioners that if elected he would:

• Abolish Section 70 of the Social Security Act 1964 ensuring all NZS applicants will retain their overseas pensions without any deduction from their NZS or from their spouse’s NZS.

• End the labyrinth of bureaucratic complexities and unfairness caused by existing reciprocal pension agreements with other countries. Overseas pensions are no business of the New Zealand Government.

I wrote to Tracey Martin NZ First Minister for Seniors to enquire when this was going to happen as they were now in Government, pointing out to her we have been promised this previously on several occasions and it was my belief it was just another broken election promise. I must have hit a sensitive nerve because she took exception to my comments and replied that she found my email disrespectful and offensive and that she would not interact with me until I changed my tone.

When a list MP is appointed to the privileged position of Minister for Seniors replies to an enquiry in such a way from one of those Seniors that she is proposedly representing then I am not confident she will do anything.

The voting public of New Zealand will never learn, politicians promise anything to get themselves elected and then do nothing when they do?

Paul Rea

Chairperson

NZSP

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