"... the North Island has kept growing faster than the South Island. This wouldn’t be a problem, but the alchemy of MMP only works when there is a decent number of non-electorate “list seats”. And the South Island Rule keeps taking them away."

#HenryCooke, 2024

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350146862/why-were-eventually-going-need-more-mps

The long term fix for this could be to bring back the upper house. Ditch MMP, and split Parliament into a two houses of representatives. One elected by the party vote, and one by the electorate vote.

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Henry Cooke, Presbyterian leader and minister, was born #OTD 1788 at the Grillagh, near Maghera.

DIB: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cooke-henry-a2007

Cooke against the radicals: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/12/13/cooke-against-radicals/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #HenryCooke

#HenryCooke died #OTD 1868. Aged only 11 during the #1798Rising, he worked to combat radicalism in education and religion.

As minister in Killyleagh he argued with #ArchibaldHamiltonRowan. He fought the #Belfast Academical Institution, calling it a "seminary of Arianism". He was a key figure in the splitting away of #Unitarianism from the main #Presbyterian church in Ireland.

He shaped the religious landscape in 19th century Ulster.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/12/13/cooke-against-radicals/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD