I'm certainly not suggesting the UK shouldn't change to something more proportional than FPP, I am just saying be realistic, it simply ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Eight years since a referendum on the matter, is far too short a period to try again, as...
"It is time that the UK started seriously debating electoral reform and how to improve its democratic systems." Get Real. The UK did exactly that not very long ago, with a referendum in 2011, and decided to retain FPP by the whopping margin of 68% to 32%, ...
You have only told half the story there Robert. You failed to actually say that Police and Treasury both now explicitly say there was no illegal hack or illegal access of treasury systems, which is kind of a major part of the latest development this ...
Crashcart, Jerry M served 4 years 267 days as CDF (1May 2006-23 Jan 2011). Tim Keating will have done 4 years 169 days when retires on 30 June (started term as CDF 1/2/2014), so I think that means he has done same number of terms as Jerry, as Wayne says. ...
No one is "burying" Keating stepping down. Three to four years is the normal term for a NZ CDF in recent decades, and that is how long Keating has now served in that role Wikipedia CDF NZ. It is just a completely normal end of term for Keating, nothing ...
What? We abhor personal attack lines done for political purposes such as this attack on Golriz ... but let's then go and do it ourselves? Surely we can do better than suggestions like that?
Quin said on his twitter overnight that he has "more, much more to come" on Golriz, after saying two days ago "I have some mates digging away in Kigali". I fear there is plenty of ramping up of this to come yet, so I hope she has a very good support team ...
Was waiting for that. Well answered Antoine.
Trouble is Tracey (and others), Hipkins said yesterday that Labour had no explicit agreement from National that they would support Mallard unopposed. He said that Labour had approached the Nats with a proposal to have Mallard as Speaker and Tolley as ...
Surely you mean Labour get to look like absolute fools Matthew? I don't often agree with the Herald but their current headline "National makes Government look like fools as it blackmails Labour for Speaker vote", has it dead right in my opinion. I despair....
That's right Scott. I hate to say it but Bridges and the Nats bluffed and it worked. Jacinda and Hipkins were quite simply panicked possums in the headlights. They are going to have to do about 1000 percent better than that from tomorrow onwards or we are ...
My father was there, and just barely made it out ... unlike most of his unit, who didn't. A terrible night and day that still haunted him with terrible memories and survivor's guilt in his last weeks, more than 60 years later.
And now the Herald has picked up Trotter's AM show comments, and have it as the top story on their mobile website right now. FFS. Oh, and Shaw said to the AM show this morning, at the mention from Garner of a possible Lab-NZF Government with Greens giving ...
Bloody Trotter on the AM show this morning saying at one stage "National won the election, without a doubt", and suggesting Winston pretty much has to go with them. He also said he thinks even two more seats from specials for the left won't be enough. ...
In tonight's Newshub poll 37% think NZF will go with Nats and 31% think NZF will go with Lab, but more interestingly to me, in the more detailed breakdown of that, 45% of NFZ supporters think NZF will go with Nats while only 35% think NZF will go with Lab....
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