Originally Posted by
justakiwi
I agree. As others have said, this election will come down to people voting for the best of a bad bunch, simply to ensure a change of government. Which is not how it is supposed to work. Something needs to change with NZ politics. I have no idea what or how, but we can't go on with this rinse and repeat system. Every time a party wins an election and goes about changing everything the previous government did - it costs the country money. It is inefficient from an economics point of view, and achieves little.
Labour will lose this election, but I can guarantee you, at some point the people will become disillusioned with the Nat/Act coalition, and Labour will find themselves back in the driver's seat. This is how it has always been, and it will always be this way. Maybe we need to encourage new blood into politics, to ensure we have an upcoming pool of political candidates who actually have vision, the ability to think outside the square, and the balls to do things differently. The current fringe parties are a total waste of time (and probably money) - none of them are grounded in reality. They are nothing more than a distraction.
At the risk of getting slaughtered, maybe it is even time to consider a completely different system. A federal government - with separate governance for North and South Islands? Similar to how Australia does it.