nz election result summary

Byron,

Not at all. Whilst I very often read the economist, I find it extremely opinionated, and much of it reads through the eyes of a twenty something year old schooled in the political and economic dogmas of the day, but who appears as yet not to have ventured further than Majorca.

Remember when The Economist proclaimed the era of long term cheap oil. When was that 2003?

Whilst I'd disagree with some of what is opined in the article, it is not totally lacking in observation, eg. "Its second term is starting to seem already littered with pitfalls for Mr Key’s government."

What they fail to observe is that whereas Key's party is strengthened by 3 (possibly reducing to 2 with the supplementary votes) HIS COALITION is substantially weakened, with his far right partner losing 4, and his Maori Party partner losing 1 (in addition to the one defection recently lost to Mana).

But for a very right wing paper, writing near it's weekly deadline, and probably from as afar as Byron (Lagos? London?), not a bad effort. At least they have more than uncle google in their research toolkit.

EL