Now I do understand how MPs duly elected, although my concept of democracy does not actually embrace List MPs selected by a Party then becoming MPs through the proportional votes cast for that Party as a valid expression of Democracy, largely due to the simple fact I as a citizen have no part in establishing that “List” for any of the half dozen or so Parties.
That accepted we are said to have a functioning democracy even though there is no way a simple majority can eliminate an individual MP and we end up with shirt lifters , paedophiles, shop lifters, alcoholics, fraudsters and the mentally deranged, sitting in a chamber of horrors legislating for all.
Now I am an avowed Anglophile and utterings by Churchill whether actually his or not, do loom large in my understanding of matters Political? His view on Democracy embrace several utterances such as;
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Then another;
“the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper—no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
or;
“it is also essential to this foundation that this man or woman should do this without fear, and without any form of intimidation or victimization. He marks his ballot paper in strict secrecy, and then elected representatives and together decide what government, or even in times of stress, what form of government they wish to have in their country”.
Possibly my favourite;
“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
So any form of selecting those who will govern us is all indeed a fraught subject but the there is this notion that appears to be gaining an ever widening acceptability amongst the ruling elite and god knows that is another can of decaying worms, of “Co Governance”?
Most voters know and understand what any Politician promises in seeking election it will be a rare occurrence indeed that they will ever deliver on such promises but that seems an acceptable facet of our electoral system but Co Governance, now how many actually understand exactly what that entails.
A deepening suspicion grows that the “Co” will entirely come from an unelected cohort that in New Zealand terms will be a racially selected, largely self appointed group of people that in any one person one vote scenario will fail miserably to garner anything near to a majority of the voters at large.
They expect that anonanimal salient point to be considered Democratic in any shape or form, give me strength?
Source: https://nominister.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/seems-a-bit-undemocratic-to-me/
4 comments:
According to AI the two must successful co-governing countries are New Zealand and Australia. This alludes to sharing "natural resources". The World is not told however that citizens of both countries were never consulted and that a referendum would probably have shot this down in flames. So, not democratic in any shape or form. Successful? We can't say it's successful or any more successful than a democracy. Co governance is not democratic as you intimate "the power is ultimately in the hands of unknown people who weren't voted for". Luxon is already talking to Maori leaders behind closed doors. No doubt Hipkins and the others do so regularly.
When meetings between public officials and taxpaid government officials and PM have to be confidential, it is not unreasonable to suggest it is unlawful. We the citizens do not need to know the word by word discussion , but an agenda and written minute of the outcome is a minimum.
Our potential MPs are selected by their political parties. The voter is merely required to endorse the choice. The `MP need have no skills or achievements of any kind, although a high self-esteem is always useful. As we now can see from some recent very bitter experience, this process is entirely unlikely to produce a satisfactory form of govt for any nation.
Did any politician, ever, stand up and say they are a proponent of co governance before an election? Only the Maori Party are openly racist and state on their website that they want sovereignty and for Pakeha to leave the country. The other spineless globalists speak out of both sides of their mouths.
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