Posts by Paul Campbell
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I was thinking more that the "cut and thrust" of debate in parliament is traditionally far from gentle - not somewhere where one can be "consoled by your supporters" to help you when someone gets a bit in your face
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Someone who can't handle that wants to be in parliament? surely a bad sign that the candidate isn't up to the job ....
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Thanks for not closing things - I'm traveling overseas on a slowly lengthening business trip and PA's been so useful to help me keep getting my political junkie fix the past week or so ....
Why not open the thread on polling experiences now? I voted before I left (no second thoughts yet) ... I'm sure others have too ... it was easy, quick managed by a bunch of wonderfully polite and helpful poll workers (who were probably bored out of their trees hoping for a customer)
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You know the result here could be a minority National government unable to proceed on asset sales because of the majority in parliament against them
Which strangely may be exactly what the public (at this particular moment in time) want
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to BenWilson,
yeah - time to start using STV for voting within electorates ....
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OK - how is it the Greens are allowed to steal other people's paste-ups off of National party signs - that seems just plain wrong ....
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Cheers. Start building a retirement wine cellar now.
nah - these days it's all screw caps, no one knows if they'll last that long
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Anyone approaching retirement with the attitude of "I've got mine screw the rest of you" isn't thinking ahead - without the vibrant economy that investing in education brings our retirement investments, kiwisaver and the pension will suffer - you csn't live off your investments if there's no one to invest in - retirement wont be alot of fun
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well that would be the idea - if "no confidence" wins in an electorate election they would resign as soon as the election reached the point where there would have be a by-election (when the result is declared? when they are seated in parliament? I'm sure there's a correct point) - there would be by-elections until the other parties put up good enough candidates to win - of course being FPP electorates only need NC to get more votes than any other candidate rather than an absolute majority
When I was a student at Canterbury in the mid 70s student association elections included a "No confidence" option - the first time it won a majority (but not 50%) there were law suits by the poor loser who actually won by persuading the court that NC needed 50%+1 to force a reelection (in my dim and fading memory I think the next runner up may have been a pig - it's a long time ago)
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I guess there's an intermediate version that runs electorate candidates (who promise to resign asap) and an empty list