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Speaker 1: Now for a group that normally seems to nail ideas

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Speaker 1: and present them well, the New Zealand Initiative this week

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Speaker 1: went off peace with their thirtieth anniversary of MMP reports

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Speaker 1: smaller cabinet. They say, good idea, get rid of the overhank,

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Speaker 1: good idea. But then they go and say more MPs.

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Speaker 1: What on earth are they thinking of the main point

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Speaker 1: they make and I think even for those of us

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Speaker 1: that didn't vote for MMP, we pretty much need to

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Speaker 1: concede that it has provided a fairer, more representative parliament. Now,

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Speaker 1: the question I would have is that actually what we

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Speaker 1: want it? The base level argument over representation is do

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Speaker 1: some of the lesser lights represent a sector of lesser

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Speaker 1: lights in the wider community. If the community has got

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Speaker 1: its collection of half wits and buffoons, do we want

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Speaker 1: a slice of that in the nation's parliament, Because that

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Speaker 1: is a version of course of representation. Now, I would

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Speaker 1: argue no, I would argue it'd far rather have a

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Speaker 1: selection of highly qualified, dedicated, hard working professionals. But if

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Speaker 1: a cross section is what we voted for, then a

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Speaker 1: cross section is what we received. The great fraud of

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Speaker 1: MMP has been the off used line by people like

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Speaker 1: the Greens Rod Donald. If you remember that the tail

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Speaker 1: would not wag the dog, the tail has most certainly

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Speaker 1: wagged the dog many times over. If the circumstances are right,

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Speaker 1: and they have been more than once, a very small

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Speaker 1: percentage of the vote can wield an astonishing and destructive

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Speaker 1: amount of power. Then of course, if we're marking thirty years,

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Speaker 1: we can also relitigate, can't we the issue of knowledge.

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Speaker 1: At the time, MMP won not because it was better

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Speaker 1: or the best, but because MMP had the best run

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Speaker 1: anti FPP campaign and too many New Zealanders couldn't be

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Speaker 1: bothered educating themselves about the alternatives. So MMP had the

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Speaker 1: biggest headlines, and enough people were fed up with Muldoon

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Speaker 1: and Longing and scraps and bulldozing governments that they threw

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Speaker 1: out the current and the hope that you was better.

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Speaker 1: We will not change the system again. Those days are gone,

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Speaker 1: and a doubt will ever, in fact even tinker with it.

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Speaker 1: But if we do more, MPs will not be top

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