National would bring back $5 prescription fees

[Kenj]

I voted for them once........ in the days of Rod Donald and Jeanette Fitzsimons.

They were real people who, even though I didn't agree with everything they said, I respected them.

Not like this bloody shower that call themselves Green these days!

I'd agree to some extent; those two were Green through & through but also realistic & well grounded. I sometimes wonder what their party would look like now, had he not died when he did.

Those in now at least have their hearts in the right place, but in these strange times it has to be difficult.

I can always remember Jeanette Fitzsimon doing an interview somewhere in the Coromandel, pleading against the possibility of gold mining coming back to the Peninsula.

After the interview she got into her old car (Mazda, I think) and driving away up the road in a cloud of blue smoke..... lovely