You see, there's an implicit pact offered to every Minister by his senior officials. If the Minister will help us to implement the opposite policies to the one that he is pledged to, we will help him to pretend that he is in fact what he was going to do in his Manifesto.
— Sir Humphrey Appleby (@YesSirHumphrey) February 14, 2021
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Homepaddock 
This neatly encapsulates the problem in NZ, UK, Aus, and other Westminster derived governments. When the executive is formed from the government then the executive effectively becomes the government. Manipulate the executive and you manipulate the government.
A new democracy is needed, one that separates the executive from the government.
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