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Jane Clifton: MMPa-leese – the electoral system review

Unless pigs sprout wings, the electoral system review is fated to change nothing.

By Jane Clifton In Politics

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4th May, 2012
It’s only fair to say that they can’t help themselves, but the political parties’ submissions to the review of the MMP voting system are a thumping great waste of everyone’s time. As Christine Keeler once resonantly observed, well they would say that, wouldn’t they? If you wanted to improve the way we celebrate Christmas, and you convened a panel that included both turkeys and carnivores, the net effect would be a nullity. Accordingly, National and Act are going hard-out for the retention of the one-seat threshold – aka the Epsom bonus – and Labour and the Greens are demanding ...

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