Posts by Ian MacKay
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If there were no electorates and say 100 seats, then you need 1% for each seat. 14% 14 seats. Less than 1% no seats. Sounds great to me.
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Idiot Savant: I knew that I had read of the idea about doing a List Only somewhere, and discover that it was your website. So thanks for the ideas, and pleased to see them up for discussion.
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Someone suggested that all electorate seats be dropped.
Threshold dropped to 1 or 2% to keep real "fringe folk" out.
Strict adherence to say 120 seat house.
Therefore 51% would definitely mean majority rule. Maori seats would remain? -
The grouping of parties on the Left are known. However within the National Party there are similar groupings. There are those as far out as Act and those genuinely near the centre. The only difference is the parts of the whole are not known by labels. Roll on MMP. I cannot quite see yet how John could hold the team together given the number of dead fish that each faction had to swallow. More so if Maori were part of the mix.
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Tony Ryall avoided the question this morning's interview about the "interference with Pharmac". Talked about everything else but that. Hence it could be assumed that they feel that there is danger in that aspect, otherwise why not come out and say yes?
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Craig: Why?
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Pharmac has an International envy since its creation by National in the 90's. Its great strength was its independence from political interference. The moment that John Key said Herceptin would be funded, the independence has been shattered. This is serious.
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Regardless of positions of anti-Peters, doesn't it seem at least strange that such a strong prolonged campaign against him should have happened. Had such a campaign been mounted against say Hide, or Key would it have flourished given that so far the decisions have been not guilty? Media?
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Bring back Brian Edwards and lift the standard of interviewing on TV by 500%!
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"Bonan targon Senor Reid." You see? Way back then learning Esperanto was a great brain exercise.