Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 9:30 am, June 28th, 2011 -
112 comments
Categories: First Past the Post, MMP, referendum
Tags: peter shirtcliffe, vote for change
Peter Shirtcliffe’s latest attempt to destroy MMP has finally launched. The man who spent a million dollars in 1993 is a shadow of his former self. Now, he and his cronies are so despised he can’t front the organisation himself, he’s got some kid doing it. And FPP/SM is so despised they won’t actually campaign for it overtly.
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 1:57 pm, September 26th, 2010 -
62 comments
Categories: democracy under attack, MMP
Tags: john key, peter shirtcliffe, wayne eagleson
Leaked notes from a meeting between Peter Shirtcliffe and Wayne Eagleson have revealed backroom dealings to kill off MMP.
We shouldn’t be surprised that the party of big business and the big-business-backed anti-MMP lobby would be colluding.
After all, it’s in all of their interests to take power from the voters and put it back in the hands of the elite.
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 2:00 pm, May 14th, 2010 -
13 comments
Categories: democratic participation, MMP, Parliament, referendum, Supplementary Member
Tags: no right turn, peter shirtcliffe
No Right Turn on the ignorance of the main campaigner wanting a change to our electoral system. You’d think that if you’re campaigning for something that you’d at least know what you are campaigning for. But apparently not.
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 9:33 am, July 8th, 2011 -
19 comments
Categories: electoral systems, humour, referendum
Tags: vote for change
Vote for Change, Peter Shirtcliffe’s anti-MMP vehicle a grassroots movement discussing the need for change in the electoral system, has launched an ad competition for their movement. There’s $10,000 in prizes. I guess they raised the money from cake stalls. We encourage to submit your entries to VfC, and send them to us too!
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 9:00 am, July 5th, 2011 -
10 comments
Categories: electoral systems, referendum
Tags: alex fogerty, bob harvey, imperator fish, peter shirtcliffe, vote for change
Peter Shirtcliffe’s Vote for Change is reeling. On Sunday, they had to boot out Alex Fogerty after the Young Nat’s neo-Nazi affiliations were made public. Yesterday, they lost their token Leftie, Bob Harvey, when he realised that being used by a collection of capitalist elitists and white supremacists wasn’t the legacy he wanted.
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 12:06 pm, July 4th, 2011 -
52 comments
Categories: electoral systems, MMP, racism, referendum
Tags: alex fogerty, jordan williams, peter shirtcliffe, vote for change
Peter Shirtcliffe’s Anti-MMP Vote For Change group has just 16 members and one of them has turned out to be a neo-Nazi. Is it a case of being so short of mates they’ll accept anyone who turns up, or does this give us a truer picture of who really wants to get rid of MMP? The latter, I think.
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 8:48 pm, June 28th, 2011 -
42 comments
Categories: MMP
Tags: david farrar, peter shirtcliffe
The latest anti-MMP outfit is already unraveling with Pundit’s Rob Salmond uncovering the fact it’s basically the Peter Shirtcliffe club.
It’s a surprisingly clumsy effort. Especially given David Farrar provided strategic advice.
I guess he’s not learned any lessons from his previous PR fiascos…
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 -
139 comments
Categories: don brash, Maori seats, MMP, national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: hobsons pledge, Treaty of waitangi
Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 12:32 pm, June 29th, 2011 -
49 comments
Categories: elections, First Past the Post, MMP, referendum, Supplementary Member
Tags:
Times that the Government had the support of the majority of voters under FPP from formation of Reform (beginning on multi-party system) in 1911: 7 out of 27 (26%)
Times that the Government has had the support of the majority of voters under MMP: 4 out of 5 (80%)
Written By:
Mike Smith -
Date published: 9:32 pm, June 28th, 2011 -
25 comments
Categories: electoral systems, referendum
Tags: vote for change
By its own admission, Vote for Change is anti MMP. Its website homepage has “More Accountability” as its first principle. It is also an Incorporated Society. So I had a look at its rules – you can find them on the Societies website. It seems more like the Politburo to me. Not a good look for a group supposedly promoting better democracy.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 10:29 am, January 14th, 2011 -
98 comments
Categories: electoral systems, referendum
Tags:
The Right hates MMP. Back in the good old FPP days, about 20% of voters backed leftwing parties like Values, the Alliance, and Social Credit but got nearly no representation. National could govern alone with just 35% of the vote or fewer votes than the other major party. The Right was happy with that. So, they’ll be pissed Kiwis prefer MMP.
Written By:
Bunji -
Date published: 8:31 am, June 5th, 2010 -
5 comments
Categories: election 2011, election funding, electoral systems, referendum
Tags: simon power
Two Electoral Reform bills are currently accepting submissions, and each contain one particularly large flaw. Firstly, as I commented on the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill: getting rid of the 3 month election period is a very dangerous move. National have now decided that the election period only starts on the day […]
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 12:11 am, May 9th, 2010 -
53 comments
Categories: election 2011, First Past the Post, humour, interweb, MMP, political education, referendum, Supplementary Member
Tags:
One thing that the election in Britain brought home to me, was how much I’m grateful for having Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation here. I didn’t start that way. Over time, I’ve grown to appreciate the gradual progress and stability offered by MMP. However the people at the Campaign for MMP could do with a little help in the Internet age. They’re operating like it was 1993.
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 4:39 pm, February 25th, 2010 -
4 comments
Categories: MMP, polls
Tags: campaign for mmp, no right turn, peter shirtcliffe, umr
No Right Turn covers the latest UMR poll on MMP, which shows a good but by no means unassailable lead for MMP over less representative systems.
With the forces of reaction once again emerging to undermine our democracy we all need to get in behind the Campaign for MMP.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 9:47 am, February 24th, 2010 -
67 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, tax, telecommunications
Tags: jobs summit, john key, paul reynolds, peter shirtcliffe, steven joyce, telecom
This man is Paul Reynolds, CEO of Telecom. He has overseen the largest corporate disaster in recent New Zealand history. The Nats are planning to give him over $6,600 a week in tax cuts. Apparently this screw up on a $7 million salary is the kind of guy New Zealand needs.
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 12:39 pm, February 17th, 2010 -
30 comments
Categories: class war, electoral systems
Tags: peter shirtcliffe, simon power
The business elite wants to drag us back to the days of unfair elections and weak democracy, when business interests held even more sway than now. We don’t want to return to those days. We want to keep the best electoral system in the world – MMP.
Written By:
Michael Foxglove -
Date published: 4:35 pm, February 4th, 2010 -
28 comments
Categories: International, uk politics
Tags:
The British PM Gordon Brown has announced he will push through legislation giving citizens the chance to vote on whether to dump First Past the Post (FPP) in favour of Alternative Vote (AV). According to The Guardian: Brown staked his authority on committing his party not just to a referendum on the alternative vote, but […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 12:54 pm, November 12th, 2009 -
25 comments
Categories: MMP, polls
Tags: peter shirtcliffe, umr
NZPA reports on a new poll from UMR which shows Kiwis don’t want to dump MMP for a less proportional electoral system. The survey used the proposed wording of the referendum and found 48 percent in favour of keeping MMP and only 40 percent in favour of changing the system. Interestingly, when people were told […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 2:39 pm, October 27th, 2009 -
25 comments
Categories: MMP
Tags: no right turn, peter shirtcliffe, social report 2009
As the assorted rich, white old men behind Peter Shirtcliffe start their campaign to dump MMP, it’s worth remembering that the diversity we see in Parliament today hasn’t always been the case. The graph above, which comes via No Right Turn, was released today in the Social Report 2009. It shows a major increase in […]
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 7:08 pm, September 9th, 2009 -
64 comments
Categories: MMP
Tags: FPP, peter shirtcliffe, sm
National and the business elite led by former Telecom chairman Peter Shirtcliffe (who led the pro-FPP campaign back in the 1990s) want to replace MMP with a voting system called Supplementary Member. SM is kind of a halfway house between FPP and MMP. Rather than the total number of seats a party has in Parliament […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 2:40 pm, September 9th, 2009 -
22 comments
Categories: Media, MMP, national/act government
Tags: fran o'sullivan, national's secret agenda
Fran O’Sullivan has rather given the game away on the MMP referendum. Frog has explained it so well, I can’t do better than repost it: Holding a referendum on MMP was discussed at cabinet on Monday 31 August 2009. Yesterday Ms O’Sullivan informed Newstalk ZB drive time host Larry Williams of how this information was conveyed to […]
Written By:
Marty G -
Date published: 1:17 pm, September 5th, 2009 -
53 comments
Categories: democracy under attack
Tags:
Back in the days of First Past the Post elections, we had what Geoffery Palmer termed ‘the fastest law in the West’ and the Prime Minister was effectively an elected dictator. The PM controlled Cabinet, the Cabinet controlled caucus of the majority party in what was by design a two-party system (in Parliament, there were […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 12:45 pm, June 18th, 2009 -
64 comments
Categories: democratic participation, referendum
Tags: lunchtime rants
I have to disagree with the guest post below, which argues that because citizens’ initiated referenda tend to be brought by groups peddling an interest (so what?) and often deal with complex issues we should just put them in the too hard basket and leave it to the politicians to sort it out. Somehow, that’s […]
Written By:
Steve Pierson -
Date published: 10:20 am, June 19th, 2008 -
65 comments
Categories: election 2008, election funding, john key
Tags: Electoral Finance Act
National has announced that John Key donated $30,000 to the party this month. That’s all well and good; Helen Clark donates a similar amount to Labour most years. What’s new is that the donations Key and every large donor to National or any other party are now public. Previously, National received up to $2 million a […]
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 10:56 am, May 18th, 2008 -
120 comments
Categories: MMP, same old national
Tags: dpf, electoral law, FPP, free speech coalition, MMP, national, peter shirtcliffe, sunday star times
The Sunday Star Times reports National is keen to have a referendum on MMP. As you would expect Peter Shirtcliffe has been involved in lobbying the Nats for this policy. It’s just as AYB predicted. I’m sure the advertising agencies will be rubbing their hands together in glee. I would imagine we’ll hear a lot […]
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 8:56 am, February 15th, 2008 -
100 comments
Categories: election funding, workers' rights
Tags: election funding, workers' rights
Vernon Small reports today that National party blogger David Farrar has taken out a complaint against the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s registration as a third party under the Electoral Finance Act. Now aside from the fact that the founder of the Free Speech Coalition is trying to use the very legislation he has so […]
Written By:
all_your_base -
Date published: 5:36 pm, January 24th, 2008 -
100 comments
Categories: MMP, same old national
Tags: electoral law, hollow men, MMP, national, peter shirtcliffe, rod donald, same old national
After Brash and the extreme right were exposed in The Hollow Men the Nats changed their leader hoping for a fresh start. What’s becoming apparent is that National’s shady backers haven’t changed. The policy and the cash are coming from the same people they always have – people like Peter Shirtcliffe who’s evidently now helping […]
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 2:06 pm, January 23rd, 2008 -
251 comments
Categories: dpf, election funding, same old national
Tags: cameron slater, donations, dpf, election funding, Electoral Finance Act, free speech coalition, hollow men, john minto, MMP, same old national
Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces onto porn and decided to finally publish the Coalition’s updated donors list (and only a month after he said he would). Interestingly, a “P Shirtcliffe” is listed as having donated $5000. Now […]
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 8:41 am, March 4th, 2014 -
33 comments
Categories: dpf, making shit up
Tags: david farrar, free speech coalition, jordan williams, mojo mathers, nz taxpayers union, peter shirtcliffe, shirtcliffe
Rob Salmond at Polity points to the right wing publicists who pose as independents, set up publicity shells for nutters, and who seem to make outright lying their hallmark. Perhaps it is time that journalists start describing them as they are rather than quoting them as they prefer. They should be “blogger and National’s pollster” or “part-time lawyer and ACT supporter.”
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