Re: ‘Major changes to our affordable water reforms' Angie Warren-Clark's column From the Beehive, The Weekend Sun, April 21. I wonder if Angie Warren-Clark is being completely honest when she says: 'We've listened to feedback and made major changes”.

My understanding is that after the consultation process it was decided that the Three Waters policy was to remain more or less unchanged. And that the recent change to the policy, as well as the ‘bonfire' of other policies, was the outcome, not of public consultation, but rather of the change in Labour's leadership and direction – a change that was designed to halt the party's steady slide in the opinion polls.

R Rimmer, Welcome Bay.