I think week one post vote has gone pretty well, hasn’t it?
Two to go and the coalition chinwags begin.
These could be the real news. I have got from all sides the sense that:
1) The two smaller players are out for a way better deal
2) From National, they are well aware the smaller players are out for a way better deal
It could be spicy.
I've been disappointed in the moaning from the left. The left lost. Full stop. Accept it, take it, learn from it, and move on.
Technically of course, it may turn miraculously their way. But I think the behaviour this week indicates even they don’t think it will.
From Helen Clark and her omnipresent reckons, to any number of Greens who want to storm some barracks, to even poor, old Hipkins who fell down the rabbit hole of gerrymandering, not one of them knew how to be gracious.
They are torching a system that produced nothing more than one of the myriad of results that is possible when you set rules around two votes with some geographic sectioning, a list, a weighting around said electorates and a threshold.
But a different threshold if certain things happen in an electorate. When you start with that as your recipe, guess what? A lot of stuff can unfold and it did. Just because you don’t like the cake, it doesn’t mean you start again.
I could be charitable to the left. One term Governments are rare and that’s before the math and pathway were always easier for the right .
A left win would have been a boil over, so you fell short. Tough luck.
The hypocrisy was bad too. A lot of attention on billionaires over manipulation, and yet scant regard for the Māori Party who did exactly the same thing.
Chris Bishop said it was "soul destroying" – good reaction.
Gerry Brownlee talked of kids and matches – not a good reaction.
Vanessa Weenink lost her shit completely – shocking reaction.
And as for Tamatha Paul on social media, it's not under 16s we need to be worried about. Rabid MPs should be banned as well.
The good news is it will be alright in the end. A Government will be formed and the world is not over. In fact it may not even change that much.
The All Blacks will win and we'll look at week two this time in seven days.
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