Thank you Rogers Rabbit for your unfailing sense of the ridiculous, which manages to keep me sane during the media circus we call the General Election.
Due to MMP and the tail wagging the dog scenario which develops as the result, NZ is moving steadily backwards in every area. The sad part of this is that this election is crucial to all our futures, and the number of people who don't know how to, or who to vote for, is huge.
I suggest we return to Provincial Government whereby every province elects a rural and urban representative who is voted in on their merit, experience and credibility. Let's get rid of Party Politics, thereby, eliminating half of the MPs and saving millions, and the elected members vote for a Chairman to be the head of debates and policy making. Any major decisions would be by referenda, not to be ignored as this present lot do!
This system would get the best people in there, hold them accountable or out they go, and finally rid us of all the promises and other lies we have to listen to tri-annually.
It is ludicrous to have 120 people representing 4 miilion people in this electronic age. Add the recipe of all the stone age, green, conservative, union, Christian, ethnic ingredients and it is not hard to see why we are going backwards economically and socially, and across the ditch looks more attractive!

Bonnie Leonard, Otumoetai.