Comments on: Whinging and Moaning about MMP

By: mpledger

mpledger — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 08:50:02 +0000

But Bill would have willingly taken Jacinda’s place if Winston had of let him.

By: Blue

Blue — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:52:41 +0000

Problem with mmp we vote for a parliament not a government, if parties had to declare there preferred coalitions before voting it would be a fairer system , winston played the electorate and choose the government All the vote told us the 46pc of voters wanted national to govern, 35pc labour 7pc greens and 7pc nzf iIt did not tell us that the majority of nz wanted a lab green nzf coalition, there’s the problem

By: felix marwick

felix marwick — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:00:43 +0000

politics is a numbers game. It always has been and always will be.

So it’s a little surprising to some of the arguments that have been posited about the election result.

61 is the magic number to pass legislation and is widely accepted as such yet I don’t recall similar arguments being aired when opposition parties have mustered the numbers to get Members’ bills over the line in face of Government opposition.

Did the Bills put forward by Jan Logie and Andrew Little lack moral authority because they were passed in such a way and, if so, where was the outcry at the time?

By: Zinc

Zinc — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:07:11 +0000

Clearly not.

By: Zinc

Zinc — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:02:52 +0000

Exactly! In relation to my previous, not only is she happy to pay for the dinner and the theatre tickets as well as buy the condom, but she’s also willing to support the consequences if it all goes wrong! Every man’s perfect date…..

By: Zinc

Zinc — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:57:46 +0000

It’s been all over every paper for a fortnight. It’s a total non-analogy, based on the fact that if you have enough losers willing to sleep with all their enemies, you somehow end up with a winner! Beats me, too.

By: Zinc

Zinc — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:52:54 +0000

The winner should’ve bought a sausage roll and a packet of chips….and got a squirt of sauce from one of the losers. Pretty much what we’ve ended up with, apart from the sauce.

By: Zinc

Zinc — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:49:33 +0000

What? All the losers ganging up on the winner isn’t exactly a mandate, is it?

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 05:01:54 +0000

Would that be working out that it is bollocks or clever……I have to admit it is not my analogy, Eva Allan I believe may have been the author. But it does have a popular theme to it.

By: Basil B'borgnay

Basil B'borgnay — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:35:57 +0000

It’s funny to hear the lefty idiots lecture us on how we don’t understand MMP, or that we can’t do maths. And it’s even funnier when you realise that a lot of these same dills were complaining about Trump winning the American election despite losing the popular vote to HRC!