The people have spoken - where from here?
Glad its all over, even if I would have preferred a National lead government (vs National being able to run it alone ...).
Seeing myself in the centre of the political spectrum, it was a bit sad to observe previously centre-left parties like Labour and Greens to all crowd the far left of the political spectrum and ignoring (and actively putting off) the voters in the centre.
Democracy is about parties sensing and representing their electorate, not about parties trying to force their political agendas down the throats of the voters. So I guess, every party got what they deserved, and Labour and Green can sleep well in the knowledge that there are still roughly one third of the electorate happy to be represented by hard left wing politicians.
So it looks like another 3 years of the same (and yes, I prefer that to suffering under hardly thought through left wing policies). If I have a wish free (I probably don't), than I would wish for one of the left wing parties (Labour or Green) to return back to the centre and trying to represent as well ordinary people. It would be nice to have next time a real credible alternative in the centre.