Throughout my time reading the Letters to the Editor, I've seen numerous attacks on the current government, blaming them for everything that ails New Zealand society right now. This includes taking jabs at the current Commissioners at the Tauranga City Council.

However, what I haven't seen yet, is that the voting public for our Local Body Elections take responsibility for voting for inexperience and incompetence over multiple election cycles, drawing the need for central government intervention in the first place.

Dare I suggest that if the majority of the voting population in Tauranga didn't make terrible voting decisions, or even better still, actually voted outside their own interests and thought about the wider community, we might not have needed intervention in our local government in the first place?

As we look forward and anticipate a time where we can select our council's representatives again, perhaps the majority of voters may do well to not fulfil the definition of ‘insanity' – to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Don't vote in the same crowd that got our city into this mess just because it shaves a few bucks off your rates bill. Especially at the expense of the infrastructure your children and grandchildren will inherit. Don't be selfish.

Logan Robinson, Tauranga City.