We've voted to keep MMP (tho what the pollies will do to it is up for grabs)..
Key's Nats (60 seats) have only just got a House majority when combined with Act (1 - pseudo-Nat John Banks) & United Future (Peter Dunne). So when do we see 'asset sales', to whom, & how much, & who's first on the block?
However, John Key won't have a soft ride! Winston's back in the House, with six other mates (who, hopefully, can learn to make themselves useful) & a mandate to harass the government. That's why i voted NZ1st & i make no apology for it either.
I knew the Government would be National-led - the polls were all borne out - so i voted for an Opposition, an effective opposition! And that means Winston, whether you like him or hate him! Because he's the one person who won't hesitate to charge the government head-on, & we're going to need plenty of that in the next few years.
As for the bogus charge that 'they're all unelected MPs who got 'in' via the list' - who do they think put that list in the House? Scotch mist? E.T? They got there because ~7% of the voting public voted for them, that's how! It's a block vote with the whole country as its electorate - & because it's proportional, it's a fair representation of the views of a significant fraction of the voting public.
WTF is so hard about that? The trouble with the 'anti-minority' brigade is that they want to go back to the old, unrepresentative, 'rubber-stamp' Parliaments of old, when people really were voting for the government (of someone's choice, nearly always a minority). The sight of a properly functioning, fairly elected Parliament is both unfamiliar & unwelcome to these throw-backs. The idea that the Government can't just do as it pleases, but must do (or not do) as Parliament wishes, is something many of my generation & almost all of my parents' generation never ever saw from one election to the next.
Things have changed for the better with the advent of MMP.
