No one could ever have dreamed up what this Labour Government is doing to New Zealanders.First, the Government is legislating to steal the Three Waters assets – which carry drinking water, waste water and storm water – paid for by ratepayers over decades.

Then they make it clear that these assets will be run by boards made up of equal numbers of people appointed by tribes and by local governments.

Next they determine that the four entities – which will run the water infrastructure – will have to comply with edicts laid down by a Maori group.

And to top it all off, the Government has now modified the Bill – which will put all this into effect by including geothermal water and coastal water up to 80km from the coast.

Taken as a whole, this move by the Labour Government is the most extraordinary attack on the rights of the majority that New Zealand has ever seen: it is a deplorable theft of assets paid for by all ratepayers to benefit an elite.

Bring on the election next year: the opposition parties have pledged to scrap this nonsense when they return to power.

Margaret Murray-Benge, Bethlehem.