Politics Lectures

Mike Heine has blogged details of guest speakers to his politics lectures. So far Marian Hobbs and Jane Clifton.

I found amusing Marian describing Labour democracy as being:

Although the caucus elects Cabinet, Clark firstly sends a note to all her MPs telling them who she wants in there. These, funnily enough, are the people caucus vote for

And that even Helen has RMA reservations, having once complained to Marian that it was dictating what kind of fence she could erect on her property.