"How much of the election campaign [and the media focus] spent talking about bloody overhang, and not about the deep problems facing this country"

"Every conversation you're having about the technicality of the Sainte-Laguë Formula Explained or MMP and maths and thresholds and waivers and all of this technical terminology that most people don't care about ... Every conversation you're having about THAT is a conversation not about the issues!

"How much of the election campaign [and the media focus] spent talking about bloody overhang, and not about the deep problems facing this country -- from housing to infrastructure and planning to Law and order, to how on earth we can reverse the brain drain of young people leaving this country; how much time was spent talking about that stuff [i.e., the substantive issues facing the country] instead of the intricacies of MMP."

~ Chris Bishop interviewed on RNZ [6:39]