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The long shadow of Winston Peters : Comments
By Jo Coghlan, published 23/11/2011How the NZ electoral system might turn a popular PM into opposition leader.
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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.