The satisfaction of throwing out a despised Government

have said many times that overall is significantly superior to FPP. But the recent slaughter in reminds us of something that you don't get under MMP – the satisfaction of seeing a despised crushed at an election.

Australian Labor won only 7 out of 89 seats, despite winning 27% of . Now this is certainly unfair in terms of proportinality. But in terms of teaching a Government a lesson (being don't lie and don't run dirty smear campaigns), MMP reduces the impact of losing the public favour. You can't actually throw out the Ministers, as they did in Queensland, as they would all remain on the party list.

In fact under MMP it is possible Labor could have retained power in Queensland if they did a deal with Bob Katter.

Again don't get me wrong, MMP is better than FPP overall. But I do miss losing the ability to really punish a Government as they have just done in Queensland.

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