Whelp, despite a few auspicious developments, that's a deeply disappointing result. The incumbents have no positive track record to point to. How could people be so credulous? Seems we still have a largely anti-social country, with voters who'd rather believe corrupting big capital than their own fellow humans. Moreover, they're voting against their own interests. That points to ignorance. We have a lot of work to do. Educating the wilfully ignorant is no easy task.
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@mgoggie yes. Labour are pretty much over from my perspective. We need the Greens to leapfrog them, and force them to return to their anti-boss, pro-labour stance, hosing out out the remaining stench of neoliberal influence. But they can become a minor party to limit the harm they've shown themselves capable of doing to their constituents (e.g. flip fopping on the (CP)TPPA like Ardern very foolishly allowed Parker to convince her to do. I suspect Atlas Network connections).
@lightweight If it wasn't for the remnants of FPP embedded into the MMP system, National would be gone.
Something is not right with that overhang business.
@rimu yeah, haven't really looked into it (yet). Sounds murky.
@lightweight I thought that when an overhang occurs all parties get extra seats, to maintain proportionality.
But it turns out only the overhung party gets extra. Not cool, because then the party vote is being made secondary.
This basically puts a floor on how low National can go, because of their support in rural areas meaning they have a ton of safe seats.
Our system has a conservative bias built into it.
@lightweight yep, very disappointing that so many NZers think three more years of what we have just had is what we need more of. I am also pretty disappointed that labour were missing in action for so long.