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  ImperiumMundi at 07:51 PM JST - 8th November

  who is their barack obama? who is their noam chomsky?

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  KumaNiku at 09:51 PM JST - 8th November

  Helen Clark was a reformer (not liked by all, of course) who came in after a long period of economic rationalist/globalist rule which saw the decimation of industry and lowering of the general living standard among other things.

  She basically put regulation back into fashion in order to curb the excesses of neo-con thinking, by establishing a people's bank and re-investing in home industry. But that was 2000 - 8 years is a long time in politics, no matter where you are and even the most committed of reformers, such as Clark must face the uphill battle at some time.

  Personally, I think the NZ electoral system is about as loopy as they come. But that's just me.

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  flammenwerfer at 09:32 AM JST - 9th November

  I could never stand Helen Clark, I respected her intelligence and ability but her smugness, brown nosing to every group and her demeanor used to bug me no end, plus her voice cut into my spinal cord. Goodbye and good riddance to Peters - hope the door doesn't hit you on the butt on the way out. Lets see what national can do now.

  Kumaniku, yes MMP is a oddball system, why that was the one pushed so hard back in the day I don't know, I preferred the STV system but MMP was the one the was pushed hardest in the advertising campaign and the one the average punter choose for no reason other than it was the one they were told was "best" The MMP 'lobby' did a great job at selling it.

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