Rob's Rants

If National had taken the electoral commissions advice to reduce the MMP threshold to 4% they’d still be in government. 2017’s elections saw a hijacking of democracy that left a lot of kiwis scratching their heads over MMP, some get it, the majority doesn’t. To govern you need stable minor parties as coalition partners. The […]

For the sake of democracy either citizens referendums are binding, or the MMP party threshold is lowered, government can’t have it both ways. John Key told New Zealand that he thought citizen’s initiated referendums were to expensive, he subsequently set about changing the nations flag by way of a government referendum at a cost to tax […]