Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
Murdoch doesn't own the Herald
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Polity: Australian election: Dust and Diesel, in reply to mpledger,
If your chosen part in NZ is the Greens, then you can join the party and rank the list candidates. If you choose to vote for a less democratic party, you can't.
(I don't think Labour gives its members much of a say in list rankings? Obviously the Nats and NZ First don't).
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…NZ Herald became a share holder of Uber…
Do you have documentation of this or is it something a cabbie told you??
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Polity: Australian election: Dust and Diesel, in reply to Paul Campbell,
it takes a long time to type the ballots into the computers
I think most councils use a scanner which is run twice to find discrepancies.
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So why do Labour parties (in the UK and Australia) oppose fair votes?
Do they prefer an occasional chance at exclusive office when the pendulum swings their way to the ability to share power more often?
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So the NEC has voted to allow Corbyn to stand in the leadership election. I wouldn't be surprised if, in the absence of another non-Blairite, he wins again.
I wonder what the Blairites will do then - a flounce would almost certainly be terminal, but they might do it anyway.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Who?
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If you run any kind of writable website, jokers will post links on it to various unrelated places: either in a misguided attempt at SEO, to get people to genuinely come to their site or to try and install drive-by exploits.
Hence many moderation policies disapprove of links - I don't think it's any more sinister than that.
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Bush and co in the US
Former US presidents are considered outside politics (they are mostly ineligible for further office) in a way that former British PMs are not.
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Does it actually say for example that the war was illegal,
It wasn't "illegal" (as a whole) under British law simply because Britain (and most other states including NZ) don't subordinate their domestic laws to the UN charter. The only sanctions under that can be applied by the UN and (usually) to states (and require the authority of the Security Council, which would obviously not be granted when a member of that body is at fault).
That doesn't make it justifiable as good policy, but it isn't going to get Blair jailed unless he can be proved to have engaged in a narrowly illegal act, such as authorising kidnap or torture.