Posts by Phil Lyth
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Continuing . . .
After the 2008 election, agreements were formed between National and three other parties, namely Act, Maori, and United Future. (PDFs are linked form the URL.)The outcome was that 23 National MPs became Ministers (now 22), along with 2 Act, 2 Maori, and 1 United Future. These 28 (now 27) form the Government.
They enjoy the confidence of the House because Nats (58 MPs total) + Act (5) + Maori (5) + United (1) have a grand total of 69 MPs in a Parliament of 122.
The agreements bind the parties in various areas but do not bind a smaller party to back National on every area: the smaller parties do vote against on areas where there is not agreement.
Similar arrangements have followed every MMP election.
Do you need any more?
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slightly obscure question
The shortest answer is, Yes. And that is good enough for most purposes.
Slightly longer answer is, Government (or the Executive) is comprised of the Ministers, both inside Cabinet and outside. 27 Ministers this week. Government enjoys the confidence of the House because of agreements between parties that were hammered out post-election and before the Executive was sworn in.
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I think your maths needs work
Um, there were just on 3 million people enrolled to vote in 2008, and turnout was 79.5%. Now if that could have been boosted by 4.7% to 84.2%, that would have been a truckload more people voting.
That's empowerment.
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various about university electorates and turnout
Me I go with what works: in a controlled experiment last year, the Electoral Commission found that people who got a text from the orange elections guy on the day had a 4.7% higher voting turnout.
Now that would be a simple way to get another 175,000 more votes on Election Day 2011.
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What role did Richard Worth play . . .
None at all. It was Paula Bennett who took the proposal to the Cabinet Committee (APH - Appointments and Honours) and Worth was never a member of APH nor of Cabinet itself.
Phil Lyth
who is far too earnest for his own good -
Penny Bright's release says:
This OIA request was sent to Minster of Internal Affairs Richard Worth on Saturday 31 May 2009.
But Stuff reports 'Mr Key said an outside party had informed his office of the allegation of a ''relatively recent'' incident last week.'
In my world, cause precedes effect.
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Are there any signs of Minister/s trying to use this as a "dump day"? Or has someone learnt from the stupidity of Jo Moore on 9/11?
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Ostracism was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which a prominent citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years . . . [it] was simply a command from the Athenian people that one of their number be gone for ten years.
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with all due respect
Sir Humphrey: Minister, with the greatest possible respect ...
Jim: Oh, you're going to insult me again?- The Greasy Pole episode of Yes, Minister
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SwineFluNZNews
Either tell me it is a spoof, or shoot me.