GUEST BLOG: Robert Reid – MMP election provides many roads to progress
Many are saying that NZ does not understand MMP yet, and that is true, but we also do not understand the difference between parliament and the executive (Government) either.
election 2017
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MMP With FPP Characteristics: New Zealand’s DIY Electoral System
MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about who “won” the 2017 General Election. Sharp differences have emerged between those who have judged the outcome as a clear National victory, and those who insist that Labour, with the assistance of the Greens and NZ First, has every right to anticipate forming a new government.
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10 reasons why there will be a Labour-NZ First-Green Government and why it will take a month
I’ve communicated briefly with Jacinda, I’ve spoken to some of the leading members of Labour’s negotiating team and I can assure you all, any suggestion Labour are just going to roll over and allow NZ First to go to National without a fight is utterly wrong.
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How Neoliberalism Made me Selfish
Saturday was election day in New Zealand, and while the final configuration of parliament is still being negotiated, as has become normal under the proportional representation system, it’s petty clear that New Zealand has voted for a continuation of a neo-liberal approach to governance.
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Pitfalls for the Greens and NZ First in coalition discussions
One thing the Greens and NZ First won’t want to repeat is the Alliance experience in coalition with Labour from 1999 to 2002. With Ministers inside the Cabinet, committed to Cabinet solidarity, they had difficulty differentiating from Labour. This frustrated the party’s support base.
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What If? Some Random Thoughts about The Next Three Weeks
WHAT IF, three weeks from today, National decides that an acceptable deal with NZ First just isn’t on “the cards that count”?
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The difference between what Jacinda and Bill can give Winston
Jacinda can offer Winston legacy, Bill can offer him baubles. What Winston chooses will become his political epitaph.
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A victory for lies, media thuggery and lazy prejudice
The vilest incident of the campaign was not red-neck farmers protesting their right to pollute and degrade our waterways at our expense. It didn’t even involve the National Party directly. It was the vile, despicable, media-run campaign to denigrate Green MP Metiria Turei and drive her from the co-leadership of the party.
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People calling for National to be the Government because they got most Party vote don’t understand MMP
It doesn’t matter that you got the largest Party vote, what matters is if you can get 51% in Parliament, if you can’t do that, then you can’t pass legislation.
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Election 2017 Winners, losers & biggest issues
In 2014, NZers shrugged over dirty politics & mass surveillance lies & voted in National to protect their speculative property bubble wealth, so as a progressive, to be where we are with Labour + Greens + NZ First being the majority, that’s a major victory.