Cracker by Damian Christie

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Cracker: Cup of Tea and a new Electoral System

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  • Craig Ranapia,

    Plenty of older National members have long campaigned internally for a review of MMP, I imagine their long efforts were in part responsible for the review and referendum, not just so called rich elites.

    Thank you, Ben -- that was shorter, and much more polite, than my response to Steve. And for the record, back in the day I supported PR but not MMP but I lost that argument. It doesn't seem to me that the people who want to dump MMP, when you dig a little deeper, don't really have a problem with the electoral system at all -- they just don't like politicians or the political process.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Barred Brains?

    ...nasty little prions.

    Perhaps we could privatise these prions?

    ...watch here as Hall & Oates deliver an impassioned plea for privatising the prison surveillance system...

    from wikipedia with (my additions)

    Pri(s)ons are hypothesized to infect and propagate by refolding abnormally into a structure which is able to convert normal molecules of the protein (prisoner) into the abnormally structured form.

    hmmm, sounds like a recipe for penal dysfunction
    ...this can't end well...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Damian Christie,

    Not really.

    Finding enough overlap between fairly disparate election platforms, forming a government and setting out a working timetable within 3 days is pretty good going

    .

    @jb - yeah I was more referring to the commentators running around like headless chooks etc, "it's been three days and we don't have a Government yet....arrrrrghhh!" rather than the pollies themselves. They all behaved, as one might expect, with quiet dignity.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1164 posts Report

  • Craig Ranapia,

    @jb - yeah I was more referring to the commentators running around like headless chooks etc, "it's been three days and we don't have a Government yet....arrrrrghhh!" rather than the pollies themselves. They all behaved, as one might expect, with quiet dignity.

    Or possibly sleep-deprived shock, which is much the same thing. :) I have a funny feeling there are a lot of Tories and Lib-Dems who've learned the true meaning of compromise: A state of affairs that makes nobody truly happy, but everyone can more or less live with.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report

  • recordari,

    Happy Budget Day...

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

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