It's a big call to blame the incredibly chaotic times in that country at that time on the electoral system. I expect it?

Can we have some links to (in English translation coz I didn't pay attention in German lessons at school) the minutes of the Herrenchiemsee Convention that discuss this?

I suspect so too. I make the same point about other Parliaments with low thresholds. However, the?

It certainly does not make it more disproportionate for the party that attains a single seat, unless that party gets considerably less of the party vote than required for one?

Not could. Would certainly have. But the important question seems to me "would that have been better or worse?". I doubt it would have made a lick of difference,?

I mean, you're right, but so is he.

The Nazi Party never received a majority.

Personally I would like to see a pseudo STV/MMP type of system where voters could?

Yeah, I figured he was just confusing his dates, and transplanting what happened in 1999 to 1996,?

Unless you're misquoting him, and he actually said "The Greens almost also in 96", I think you're holding him to an unreasonable standard.

Though kudos for the Nandor trivia, it does need to be said.

Yes, I shouldn't say Hitler received majorities. It was in a coalition arrangement that he became the Chancellor. But the Nazi party wasn't some tiny party hovering around the threshold. They got over 33% in 1932, that's in the same ballpark as both?

He was saying that in 1999 Labour did a deal over Coromandel because at the previous election (i.e. '96), the Greens were close to the threshold.

This didn't happen.

(Though, suspect the transcript isn't as kind to him as it could be. If he did a?

My mistake. I've added the previously missing "not".

It isn't, but if MMP gets the big thumbs up, I understand that tweaking it is next on the agenda.

I'd much rather read texts that have had some considered thought behind them.

Mind you, there's?

in movies you get to the mood/point a hundred times faster than with a book
Yes, but it's almost always boy meets girl. In the dim, distant past I had about a weeks downtime on a ship and?

Yes. Is it actually used anywhere? I'd favour it (but would tend to keep the Maori seats unless and until Maori decide to dump them). The obvious argument against is that it doesn't permit people to have a local MP?

Yes, the dynamic between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins just oozed an urgent horizontal desire.

I think that side of things is massively overrated. I can't imagine going to my local?

People complain about small single-issue parties. But to the people?

Nah they'd demand another election, tribal creatures that they?

True and I don't see that as a bad thing because as you mention?

And Labour could split into a Union party and a liberal party (the two are quite often opposed – I have nothing directly against unions but they can often?

Likewise, hopefully with a lower threshold there could a splitting of the parties into units?

There are two factors in play here:
– one very successful survival mechanism of capitalism is to build fear and bigotry in the masses. By feeling that there is an "other", who they can look down on and simultaneously fear, the mass?

I think?