{"id":3337,"date":"2007-10-09T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/gotta-say-yes-to-mmp\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T22:35:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T02:35:51","slug":"gotta-say-yes-to-mmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/gotta-say-yes-to-mmp\/","title":{"rendered":"gotta say yes to MMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw my first anti-MMP flyer today (a postcard from <a href=\"http:\/\/nommp.ca\/\">nommp.ca<\/a>, which appears to be run by a <a href=\"http:\/\/cdlu.net\/\">trainspotter from Guelph<\/a>) and it surprised me that there could be such virulent opposition to what is basically a good idea. MMP, or its local variant, has worked very well in Scotland. So I&#8217;m going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteformmp.ca\/\">vote for MMP<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhen the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_parliament\">Scottish Parliament<\/a> got going late last century, it had a proportional representation system from the start. It did allow some minority parties in &#8211; like the Scottish Greens and the Socialists &#8211; but in doing so more fairly represented the wishes of the Scottish people.<\/p>\n<p>True, there were some unusual antics in the house at first from some of the Socialist members, but I notice that they are no longer represented. Act like a jerk, nobody votes for you again &#8211; that&#8217;s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the rise of the Nats, and the Greens are hanging on by one member, but it seems to work, and ends the &#8220;3 years of doing the opposite + 1 year of campaigning&#8221; to which majority rule seems to devolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw my first anti-MMP flyer today (a postcard from nommp.ca, which appears to be run by a trainspotter from Guelph) and it surprised me that there could be such virulent opposition to what is basically a good idea. MMP, or its local variant, has worked very well in Scotland. So I&#8217;m going to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[939,147,1199,547],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","category-the-old-country","tag-mmp","tag-ontario","tag-scotland","tag-vote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-RP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}