Posts by Christopher Nimmo
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to Swan,
Perhaps because casino licensing is a moral/social issue and the public often likes to have some chance of influencing such matters?
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I'm feeling like getting rid of the overhang altogether is probably a bad move... surely a cap of 121 (or just outright lifting the number of MPs to 121) would be a better idea - same number required for a majority, while keeping ever so much more proportionality and giving the parties one more MP to form a government with...
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Of potential interest: Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra
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Missing a zero in that child poverty figure...
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The Pastoral Symphony is pure dreck.
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[52] seems like a really strange decision to me. I could see his point if the pens were black/blue... but orange is just such a perfect colour for highlighting!
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Or we could say that it's not a problem. Both parties got enough votes to merit a seat.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
in part two 46.66 per cent supported FPP as the most preferred alternative.
Bit misleading, given 748,000 informal votes!
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to HenryB,
Interesting, and a little unusual, that they would be willing to say that they hate him but not why. Or is it the case that they are reporting that he is hated?
Maybe they dislike how much mail he sends them?... he's the only one of the Ohariu MPs who sends anything out other than in election year.