Last night's Colmar-Brunton poll, that's what. When one party is supported by 50% of those polled, and yet may not be able to form a government, something is majorly wrong with the system. And when a party supported by little more than one third of the electorate could cobble together enough dodgy deals to put a coalition together, something is even more majorly wrong.
Keeping Stock hopes that National will use last night's poll as an illustration to support their policy for a binding referendum on the future of MMP. It is absurd that the fleas continue to wag the tail that wags the dog. There has to be a better way!
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MMP is wrong because it is undemocratic, plain and simple.
IF National/ACT have over 50% of the party vote or the general seats they have a mandate
Binding referenda are for losers. NZ's economic and political crisis demands immediate decisive action:
* extend the current term to 5 years
* move to a 60 seat geographical constituency syste
(with the other 60 seats provided by productive sectors of NZ's economy)
* ban union involvement in politics
* establish an anti-corruption commission with direct power to compel testimony, to deregister political parties, to confiscate assets, and to jail those responsible
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