Keen to delve into some policy comparison... LG, you can kick it off
No, I'll only upset NU with my lesbian/Maori loving, nanny-state, courier taxing policies!
No, I'll only upset NU with my lesbian/Maori loving, nanny-state, courier taxing policies!
In short, no.
Though it obviously helps to have local knowledge if you want to represent the constituency.
You'll find a number of current electorate MPs don't actually live in their electorate.
Goff, for example, lives in Ardmore and represents Mt Roskill.
To be fair, there isn't really anyone to vote for now that these guys have gone.
With members listing their professions such as "pixie", "wizard", and "ark builder", and a LOL@50uff$ colour scheme, combined with epic policies such as those below, I felt truly represented. These days, not so much.
With members listing their professions such as "pixie", "wizard", and "ark builder", and a LOL@50uff$ colour scheme, combined with epic policies such as those below, I felt truly represented. These days, not so much.
- Free dung.
- Sending out intelligence agents around the world to wipe New Zealand off published maps, thus ensuring no-one could invade the country.
- Standing a dog for parliament in the Hobson seat in Northland. Her policies included the abolition of cars, and turning a meat-works into an organic flea-powder factory.
- The abolition of money: Replacing money with chocolate fish or with sand as legal tender.
- The demolition of The Beehive: The demolition of New Zealand's parliament buildings, and all other buildings on a last-up, first-down basis.
- Full unemployment; or (at other times) full employment through slavery.
- Using beer as a National Defence strategy: leaving many bottles of beer on all beaches, so that any invading army would abandon its attack and get drunk instead.
- Full hedgehog suffrage: After a goat successfully received nomination in a local body election on Waiheke Island, the party unsuccessfully attempted to stand a hedgehog for Parliament, apparently solely in order to make "prick" jokes.
- The demolition of the Auckland CBD in order to create a giant sundial, using the Sky Tower as the gnomon. Or at other times, to protect the Sky Tower by placing a condom over it.
- Linking the North Island and South Island: by bulldozing the Southern Alps into Cook Strait.
- Free castrations.
- Fixing accountants in concrete and using them as traffic barriers.
- Good weather (but only if voters behaved).
- Full employment by carpeting the national highways - this would also save wear and tear on vehicle-tyres.
- To break their promises.
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