Who's voting ACT, apart from me?

[MisterD]

Hmm, so a cunning ploy would be...

Say you are the Labour or National Party.

You look at your safe seats - you might have 30-40 that you think you would win.

You DONT stand an electorate MP in your safe electorates.

You just encourage (or manufacture) a party that supports all your goals, and agrees before the election to vote with you.

You encourage your voters to support your natural partner in the electorate vote as you aren't running a candidate, but give you the party vote.

Thus, you will collect 30-40 electorate MPs.. and the same percentage of the list.

2-for-1 bang.

There is NO Way this would really happen though. The Greens and The Mordies really are different to Labour.

There's no way it would happen on such a large scale, but I have two words for you: Jim Anderton.

[SPman]

lol its all good mate.

I think its because we forget we have the population of a small city (by international standars) yet we drive a machine of a country, ...

Hmmmm - Finland pop 5.3m, area 338145 km2 - 16 peeps/km2 NZ pop 4.3m, area 268680 km2. - 15 peeps/km2
I'd say we were fairly similar in size and population, overall.
Then we get to nominal GDP per capita - NZ $30,390, Finland $46,856

whoops!

[Quasievil]

Hmmmm - Finland pop 5.3m, area 338145 km2 - 16 peeps/km2 NZ pop 4.3m, area 268680 km2. - 15 peeps/km2
I'd say we were fairly similar in size and population, overall.
Then we get to nominal GDP per capita - NZ $30,390, Finland $46,856

whoops!

You forgot to mention the rest of my post which related to the HUGE WELFARE drain on NZ economy, how is Finlands welfare state scenario in relation to NZ welfare complete state?

[Magua]

You forgot to mention the rest of my post which related to the HUGE WELFARE drain on NZ economy, how is Finlands welfare state scenario in relation to NZ welfare complete state?

I'd say it's more an issue of location and access to markets. End of the earth vs. northern fringe of europe.

[slofox]

How can you vote for a man who wears a yellow jacket.........?

[Magua]

How can you vote for a man who wears a yellow jacket.........?

And drives a smart car?

[Quasievil]

I'd say it's more an issue of location and access to markets. End of the earth vs. northern fringe of europe.

Oh yeah that to, + a whole bunch of other stuff to Im sure