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Illegal Government?

I am up to chapter 18 of Ian Wishart's book Absolute Power - almost finished it - and it's been very eye-opening. One of the points he makes is that "New Zealand's current political system is [...] technically illegal".

This is because when we (the Government, actually) declared ourselves independent from Britain in 1986 the Government lost the right to Govern because they lost the right conferred by British Parliament and there should have been an election at that stage straight away to let voters choose the party they now wanted and to "ratify the new constitutional position", as Ian puts it. Nothing has been done about it since then.

Does this mean that every decision that has been made by Parliament since then has been illegal?

I would love to see this given to some high-power lawyer and have every decision ever made by the Govt since 1986 made null and void (especially the decisions made since Labour took over in 1999).

Then maybe we can all start again fresh without all the crap laws that Helen and co have passed since then; go back to the beginning.

Wouldn't that be nice?

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  1. After reading Absolute Power, all I can say is the actions and words of Helen Clark have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting.

    We badly need a new direction and a change of government. We need a government that is not a tangled web of agendas, lies and deception.

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  3. I'm sorry, Anon. Any comment using Our Lord's name in vain will be deleted from now on. Luckily there was very little of substance to your comment, so you don't need to be too put out.

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