Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to nzlemming,
Sorry? Don't understand.
It was shorthand for "public servant acting on my instructions" vs "someone in my office acting on their own initiative and without my knowledge".
His disappearing is circumstantial evidence that he's been a bad boy. The fact that he hasn't been sacked and discredited is circumstantial evidence that JK wanted him to be a bad boy.
At least that's how I read it.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to nzlemming,
It has not been reported that National have fired him, but he has rather become a non-person
If true, that's suggestive that he was a servant not a rogue, n'est-ce pas?
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Russell Brown,
extending to losing her job
Does anyone know if Jason Ede still has a job?
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I see we've got Mike Hard Right Hosking back for the minor parties' debate. Couldn't manage a semblance of neutrality twice.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
John
Key
LiesYou probably didn't miss that.
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This is the best bit:
https://twitter.com/Evinshir/status/507767600420360192 -
Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Walter Nicholls,
On this very website, perhaps…
No, it was this week and wrt the UK, but good find :-)
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to phplad,
How to unbreak this obviously broken system.
... I keep going back to this idea of a model closer to direct democracy where politicians would vote exactly as their regularly polled constituents wished them to.Read a suggestion recently that proposed adding randomly selected and intermittently replaced citizen representatives to the elected house so that elected MPs only made up the same proportion of the chamber as the fraction of the electorate that voted.
While the aim of the proposal was to increase voter turnout and involvement, you can bet the C&M's of this world would be finding ways to game the system. -
Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Electorate candidates can be Internet Party or Mana Movement, but there is a single list
Yes I get this. From the appearance of the two papers so far it looks like internet party candidates have been divorced from the IMP party vote. We don't know whether the same is true for the mana movement candidates.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Aidan,
So clearly it is randomised
It won't be randomised, because that would make counting harder by several orders of magnitude. At the very least it will be the same throughout each electorate.