Now here's a thought! A flight of fancy really. Totally unrealistic in the scheme of things.
Over the years, we have had various requests to our masters down there in the big house.
One was regarding the ability to discipline our children properly. Another was having less of them in power. And there have been others, which had absolutely no notice taken of them at all.
Then, suddenly we get a party in power, with under 50% of the vote and we are being dictated to about selling off half our assets, that we already own.
A couple of odd centuries back in France, the people came up with an answer for this sort of treatment, but it involved quite a large amount of violence, which of course would just not be on now, in our 'PC” inclined world.
If governments get into serious trouble, then they sometimes call 'snap elections”, which allow the people to give them a mandate (or authority) to continue with the path they are on.
So my thought was, that as, we, the people, and the only true government in the end, are not happy with a situation, then what would be the chances of us, demanding our own 'snap election”?
But oh, silly me. I forgot, we are not in power, are we?

R McGuinness, Tauranga.