Posts by Katharine Moody
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to David Hood,
Yeah, it's been well and truly rigged - and can be the only reason we got variations of one choice. All very cleverly planned by a government who doesn't believe in choice.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Better but I think the fact that this is an STV vote is your bigger problem. In other words, looks like Key Inc. has spoiled your spoiler.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Paul Campbell,
So then the hypnoflag as a spoiler mechanism really has no chance of winning under STV - if I read that correctly. No doubt that's exactly why we got three ferns in the shortlist.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to simon g,
This whole flag shemozzle is damaging the democratic process.
I'm trying to figure out whether the first referendum is an STV vote? The Wiki entry refers to a ranking of the four designs but the official government website doesn't go into any explanation of that.
But if it is STV, then would a Hypnoflag supporter be advised to just rank that design with a number 1 and no ranking after that? Point is, if it is an STV vote, then one can only assume all 'fern' supporters will rank the ferns 1, 2 and 3 (with hypno as 4) and as one fern drops out in any one round, obviously the next fern will be allocated all the secondary votes from fern supporters next ranking, and so on until it's a fern - no matter what.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Ben Chapman,
The original Koru Flag was submitted by someone. It is not clear that this is the copyright holder though.
But given it remained in the competition (whereas the other was removed for copyright breach) I would assume the Foundation did not object. Shocking really that the Panel chose to ignore it but pick a breach of copyright when selecting that top 40. Very suspect.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to ,
Great idea that. PS - cute cat mascot pic in the Twitter feed.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Alfie,
Sheesh - I hate it when my cynical perspective is on the money.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to James Littlewood*,
Never catch on, that.
Exactly - where nepotism rules - paying professionals to do professional work is an antiquated idea.
Do we have any idea what the panel of mates each got paid for their participation in this process?
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Keir Leslie,
The problem for the Foundation wasn’t that they didn’t approve of the Hundertwasser Flag being considered
Agree - it was a distasteful knockoff. But why then didn't they submit his design I wonder?
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Alfie,
Because if we don’t get our acts together, the coalition of the bland will sure as hell win this one by default.
Yeah, I'm going to get in behind whatever 'spolier' option turns out to look to have the most support. I agree that what is needed is for all these 'spoilers' to get together and launch one concerted effort/plan.