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Saturday, July 16, 2005

Winston and the phones

I quite enjoyed Winston's little act with the telephones. For those who weren't there, missed it or ignored it: he pretended to have calls from Don and Helen at his press conference where he asked them 'who you gonna go with'.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0507/S00188.htm

I have yet to see a journo discuss this issue but the point he is making is a reversal of the way we look at parties from an FPP environment to an MMP environment. He might say "It's as up to them as it's up to me. Iif it's a coalition surely it's also up to National and Labour to say who they will go into coalition with."

His point being perhaps National and Labour should say who they want to go into coalition with. You can argue with him and say it's up to the small parties not the big ones, but I think Peters has a point, in MMP it takes two (or three or four) to tango

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