Posts by Henry Barnard
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Will they, like male officers, come from part of society that thinks that the standard of consent for women or girls who wear short skirts and/or drink alcohol is lower than for sober women in loose denim coveralls? These views are by no means restricted to men.
True enough ... and I take the points raised by others. And thanks Fooman for the link to "What stops women becoming top cops?" link. I see that Anne Tolley also contributed to the quota issue:
Police Minister Anne Tolley – the fourth woman in the portfolio in the past 25 years – is vehemently opposed to tokenism:
"I've talked to a few of the female officers and they don't want any favours, thank you. They are adamant that they have to be given the time to gain that experience so that they are being promoted on merit. Because that is just a death knell if there is any hint of them being promoted just because they are women."
and yet, in the same piece, Sandra Manderson:
But she can't see a female commissioner being appointed during her career. "They are not getting into those top jobs, that's the bottom line isn't it? And it's not good enough. It's not easy getting through. Each regime, they – the administration, the bosses – have their own people they select. There is a type, it's called men, that's the type.
How, then, to deal with this conundrum? I think everyone wants a policing system and a justice system that deals with rape and rape victims differently from the way it has been (and is) being dealt with now, where - if the reports are true - even some police participate in asking the victims, as Craig said, to `not exist at all'.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Greg Dawson,
And we’re hiring more police every election year, so that lump is getting bigger.
A time to consider introducing a quota system to encourage a significant increase in the number of women in the police force? And especially at higher levels?
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Russell Brown,
you can probably guess what happened. Sigh.
Like "anti-smacking"?
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Legal Beagle: Council elections: FPP Q&A, in reply to Steven Peters,
Dunnes seat is a bit different to the Epsom example, as National hasn’t a hope of winning it, and cannot really influence the result.
Isn't National the likely winner of that seat if Dunne should go? Chauvel (Labour) got 13,000, Gareth Hughes (Green) 2160, Dunne 14360, Katrina Shanks (National), 6900. Given the overwhelming vote for National on the party votes in that electorate, I wouldn't describe National as not having a hope of winning it.
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Thanks for that, Russell. Combines nicely with another site - gapminder - which has a lot of comparative information about New Zealand . I only discovered it this week.:)
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Done....and happy to subscribe too.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Russell Brown,
not base political analysis on a single poll :-)
Must be something about Spring and Autumn then :)
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Aren’t we already? – many of us use STV to elect our councils
I meant the discrepancies between the balances in favour of one candidate or other in the various divisions of the electoral college. There is much talk about how dreadful it would be if the fall of the die was not the same in all divisions. David Milliband led amongst the MP/MEPs but Ed in the other two divisions. Not sure what the result would have been had the weightings in Britain (a third to each) been like the NZ (40%,40%,20%)
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We will have to get used to this sort of thing:
Ed Miliband won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, with the support of 50.654% of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3%. In the fourth and final stage of the redistribution of votes after three candidates had been eliminated, Ed Miliband led in the trade unions and affiliated organisations third of the electoral college (19.93% of the total to David's 13.40%), but in both the MPs and MEPs section (15.52% to 17.81%), and Constituency Labour Party section (15.20% to 18.14%), came second. In the final round, Ed Miliband won with a total of 175,519 votes to David's 147,220 votes.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to BenWilson,
Guards! Seize him!
Honestly, sir, we didn't hear anything: it was too high pitched.