Unbelievable. This mob is beyond anybody's comprehension. The Electoral Finance Act has not yet been signed into Law and bloody Labour announce a review of Electoral Process. Shouldn't we have had that before the one party decision that we must have this odious legislation? We will have this stupid review which will make not a jot of difference to what is now the status quo. Amalgam Girl is in the thick of this. 'Justice Minister Annette King will choose an independent panel early next year to consider possible taxpayer funding of political parties'. More control - King will choose. I can see the list forming now - Attila the Hun (not), me (not), Tung, M. T. (yup), Trotsky, L. (yup), Key, J. (not), the lady from the Tofu bar (yup) and so on until she has one hundred and forty lickspittles. One hundred and forty - give me strength. How the hell are one hundred and forty people going to agree on anything? Well it doesn't matter does it because '[The panel] does not make decisions. It allows us to have a discussion and allows the public to have a say.'
So it is situation normal. The gummint choose a bunch of people of its liking to have a talk fest to give the pretence that they are taking public opinion board and then ignore what it says. They have been doing it for years so why should they change now. OK, so the Dental Nurse chooses these wallies and what are they to look into - State funding of political parties. If you don't see that this is payback to the Greens for ticking the 'Yes' box on Tuesday you are terminally daft.
This People's Jury nonsense of one hundred and forty people. John Ansell on Kiwiblog says all that needs to be said about this:
A people's jury! Brilliant!
But hang on…
…didn't I read that the Poms invented something suspiciously like a people's jury a while back? What was it called?
Oh yes… Parliament
Hone Harawera had it right with his uncharacteristic clarity I alluded to yesterday..
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