Mike Grimshaw: Is a new Centrist party possible?

Is a centrist party is possible in New Zealand politics? It’s a question that’s regularly raised because of an on-going (and often widespread) disaffection with the oppositional nature of our political system that seems to limit change.

But why doesn’t such a party arise and succeed? Can it arise Ex Nihilo: ‘out of nothing’? That is not as a breakaway from existing parties? Is the real issue the limitations of centrism itself, as – I’d suggest – a recent attempt to create such a party demonstrates.