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Posted on 28-11-11

Percentage Politics
By AM, 27 November 2011
 
Last night's election in New Zealand is already history. What's there to
learn from it?
 
The second biggest party (35%) are those who vote with their feet.
 
Politics as usual will continue until the second biggest party becomes the
biggest and strong enough to overpower it during which...
 
`New Politics' emerges from what starts as an amorphous mass of angry
disengagement from the old (see article on Iceland).
 
Can the Labour and/or Green and/or Mana parties adapt? We'll see.