Last Day!

November 7, 2008 – 9:00 am

Well, I got nothing more to say. It will be a National victory without a doubt, but whether it can win more than half of the seats, is still hard to tell at this point. It will depend on weather, and the performance of Labour and Maori party in Maori seats.

For other minor parties,Greens will be the big winner, 7%+ of votes will get them a hell lot of seats, especially in an environment with strong major parties.  Other parties, except Maori, are all quite likely to become one man party after tomorrow - ACT has a better chance, so let's say two for ACT, but I still doubt whether there will be a seat for Sir Roger.

And I bet 10 bucks that we'll be waving hands to Winnie to say goodbye after tomorrow.

If that's not your style to say goodbye to a politician like him, let's do this to him together(Source, copyright status unknown, fair use apply.):

Nelson haha

haha

But seriously, he'll be sadly missed.  NZ First is the true centre part in New Zealand Politics, and Winston was a good politician as what I always say: "A good politician must be able to serve his/her electorates,  or at least to entertain them." Rodney's only able achieve latter, but Winnie can kind of do both(although I don't like his ideology and policies, especially on immigration).

That's about it, just don't forget to vote tomorrow. I guess Chinese must be the ethnic group with highest turnout - you don't get a chance like this to have a say back in China. I feel quite sad for people who don't bother to participate, they will only appreciate the value their votes if they fought for it hard.

For the next National government, the last thing I want to see the is the abolishment of MMP system - I explained this in my Chinese blog, but I just don't have time to write that much here, so just three words: checks and balances.

However the system will be challeged no matter who forms the government after tomorrow - National will call for a referendum, and there will be more questions on MMP if Labour gets to form the government with less votes.


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