Democracy?

Winston Churchill once said democracy is a lousy system, but it is the best yet devised. Maybe, but surely we can do better than the outcome of the recent election that allows a party that 93% of the people did not vote for, to choose the government.

Some say MMP and the outcome of this election is real democracy at work. There is no way this can be called democracy at work. Career politician, the maverick Winston Peters, gets to choose the government that only 7% of the people voted for. Is it fair that the leader of a 7% party, can pick the government and dictate major changes in the way this country, my country, is run?

There may have been a mood for change, but that mood did not suggest we are done with capitalism and want a more interventionist government interfering in our everyday lives. We have had that and, like socialism worldwide, past big bully government failed miserably.

It results from a deeply flawed system which, in the interests of all, must be objectively reviewed and, where necessary, changed.

Vince Ashworth

Morrinsville

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