Posts by Phil Lyth
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Ben Wilson: Any second referendum will be 'MMP against the favoured alternative.' From Simon Power's announcement:
"The first referendum will ask two questions: the first will ask voters if they wish to change the voting system from MMP. The second will ask what alternative voting system they would prefer, from a list of options.
. . ."If a majority of voters opt for a change from MMP, there will be a second referendum at the 2014 general election. This will be a contest between MMP and the alternative voting system that receives the most votes in the first referendum. It will be binding.
"If a majority of voters prefer the alternative voting system to MMP, the 2017 general election will be held under the alternative voting system.
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I stand corrected. Video wasn't up when I looked at Stuff earlier, and their first three comments were at 11.56am - 11.58am, usually a good indicator. I must write 100 lines.
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Dave Waugh, you rock. Thought I was all on my lonesome in suburbia. Now, an unscientific survey of online responsiveness: who posted the Letterman link when.
11.34am: Of all the people to post first, Trevor Mallard on Red Alert11.50am approx: Stuff (their timestamp appears to be the story before the video went up)
12:13pm: honourable mention to RB, a minute ahead of
12.14pm: NZ Herald
and a long lonely last, nearly two hours off the pace:
1:14pm all round National cheerleader David Farrar
As at 2.20pm, absolutely zilch at the places you thought would have been first: the National site, his own John Key site, and the official Beehive site.
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The Cheeky Pipi, Island Bay is my venue d'annee. Special for us, but you might want to recce to check it meets the Brown requirement.
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Jackie, good on you for nagging, and Keith good on you for doing the work.
But who is going to do anything on this? It's great getting all these comments in a liberal-luvvie-fest, but are you going to hope a MSM journo picks it up and does some hard work? Cosgrove did a release last month on double-bunking. Can you go further with this?
In short, who is going to bell the cat?
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I always make sure I have enough booze at home to last at least 2 days.
But what will happen in a civil defence emergency? Y'know, earthquake, volcano, cyclone, running out of alcohol and the like?
Hey, serious thought, Iain Lees-Galloway over at Red Alert has a thread going on the second of several proposals from the Law Commission. This one on a minimum price for booze by volume of alcohol content. Do read the several caveats.
Some people may want to mosey on over.
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There is a 12 noon, and a 12 midnight.
Graeme, you are a pedantic curmudgeon. I'm proud there is another like me who insists on writing 12 noon (or midday)
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Councillor whatsisname could have provided a useful link likethis one so that people could see for themselves what is on the Auckland City website about the proposal and consultation.
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Godwin.
Now if you had said One Ring. In The Darkness. That would have been amusing.
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"supersized". Dunedin City
Hardly comparable. Dunedin has ~ 122K people while Waitakere, smallest of the four existing Ak cities has over 200K people and the new superAuckland will be 10 times the size of Dunedin,
But 'swallowing local boroughs' for 100 years? What an appetite.