Oh diddums!!

The political elites can't stand it when the electorate doesn't vote correctly for one of the elite/mainstream parties. Any other result is deemed wrong and a failure.

Australian politics has been interesting simply because the hacks and elites can't be sure of getting their way. Yes I dislike much recent major legislation, but would we even be this close to raining in the clubs and their gambling palaces without the likes of Wilkie et al.

Give the elites what they want and you get the mindless and unquestioning acceptance of US troops/bases in Darwin, free trade deals that are one way etc. You also get the mindless following of party dictats as opposed to what does their electorate actually think/want? Think here gay rights, abortion, immigration as a start and how opinions expressed by people as opposed to what is expressed by their so-called representatives.

"They argue that even though Key is a popular prime minister and his party is likely to secure 50 per cent of the national vote, Peters with a handful of Party List MPs could deny New Zealand a stable majority government instead installing a minority government." Then they must think voters are stupid. MMP assures that a party getting 50% of the vote will have a majority. Unlike First-Past-The-Post, which can give Party A more seats than Party B even though Party B gets more votes than Party A. (And then there's Supplementary Member, which would give a party winning 50% of the vote, and a majority of seats, some extra Party List MPs even though it doesn't need them for its majority.)