Posts by Rich of Observationz
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@Keir:
Those were examples and cover a hundred year period. There are quite a few more, such as the abdication crisis, for instance.
In 1910, Edward VII refused to create new peers to override the Lords veto until after a second election (against the convention that honours are granted on advice of the government).
If you went back 400 years, you'd find numerous constitutional dislocations (four dynasties, the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution). Not to mention the effective (if disputed) end to the power of the monarch to veto legislation and the end to the right of the monarch to choose a government over the wishes of parliament.
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It's not as if who rules us and the mechanisms they use is at all under question.
You might think that, but in fact, "Westminster" constitutions like ours are not that robust:
- less than 100 years ago, the British Army was refusing orders in protest at home rule being granted to (Northern) Ireland.
- around the same time, Edward VII was reluctant to create the new peers that Asquith needed to force his Parliament Act (itself limiting the Lord's veto) through.
- more recently, Kerr sacked the Australian government on the pretext of its failure to pass a budget (with the probable real reason being its opposition to US policies)
- and only last year, the G-G of Canada suspended parliament, thus avoiding the government's defeat in a no-confidence motion
I think there's quite a lot wrong with our unwritten consitutional arrangements. As Billy Bragg said, we sorted out the relationship between the King and Parliament at Bosworth Field, but we're still to sort the relationship between Parliament and People.
Anyway, that's all a long way from China. As you were.
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her dad? I think that roles taken
You asked for it....
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I'm not tutting about her tastes at all. She should fully go for it, I would.
There's a lot of marching powder just crying out to get snorted...I defer to Simon's expertise - my assumption on money from hit singles is mostly based around peoples biographies, where it seems that the first hit doesn't pay back the advance. Maybe if it's a number one for weeks all over the world, and they had a good manager and contract it's different?
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Also, Steinlager describe their product as "the best beer in the world".
Do the Kirin multinational brewing business (who make Steinlager) accept that all their other products are inferior, and do they rank them in order? Waikato Draught, the 1513rd best beer in the world
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The thing that gets me is the "West Coast Lager" thing.
When they redesigned the bottles they should have bit the bullet and changed it to:
Brewed in Auckland.
Owned by Singaporeans.
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I'd accept it all if they'd just make "breach of suppression order" a strike.
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I'm sure CPIT is a fine institution. It's just that the word Polytechnic *means* an institute for the study of technology. So why "Polytechnic Institute of Technology"?
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One hit can set a person up for life I believe.
Three big albums is nearer the mark. Probably more today.
Though it depends on one's chosen lifestyle, but I doubt Ms Allen has cheap tastes, somehow.
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I'd never heard of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
Is it similar to Auckland University of Technology University?
(aka Auckland University of Tautology).