Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
I saw the same in a noisy bar, where I couldn't hear the person next to me but 2 people yards apart were furiously signing and having a great conversation. Who was the disabled one there? Plus my ears were ringing for a while after we left.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ooer. Yes. I guess each Vote needs someone designated as a Responsible Minister. Learn something everyday.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
The Speaker is the responsible minister
Yeah, nah. Technically speaking, the Speaker is not a minister, as he is the head of Parliament, not of the executive arm of government. Huuuuuuge difference, constitutionally. Ministers of the Crown are appointed by the Prime Minister, the Speaker is elected by the House.
But I agree, he is the responsible party.
EDIT: Even more technical amendment - Ministers are chosen by the Prime Minister and appointed by the Governor General
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Mark: This is me not going ballistic. Take a picture, because it’s not going to last if you keep misrepresenting my views like that.
Good and fine. However, I’m not representing your views at all, let alone misrepresenting them.
And both could have made the time if it actually mattered to them.
Sure they could, and they didn’t and that’s not good, I agree, and then they’d have to deal with a Speaker irate that his power/authoritah had been eroded (and Lockwit has been very definite about his authoritah being respected) and the fallout from that. It’s also a fair question to ask if Shearer even knew that he, Brownlee and Smith were the Commission between Parliaments, although that’s not to excuse him.
Not as entertaining as “evil Tory fucking over a disabled Greenie out of partisan malice”, I grant you, but it bugs me.
If this is the line that’s bugging you, then (apart from Bart’s admitted cheap shot) you’re the one making the most noise about it. I don’t think I have ever alluded to it.
I thoroughly despise Lockwod Smith for who he is – an over-privileged, self-important white male who cannot bring himself to understand that there are people in the world worthy of consideration who are not like him. His politics have very little to do with that, though I tend to view them as a result, rather than a cause.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Joe Wylie,
It works a treat in Ilam, where he didn’t make a single public appearance during the last election campaign.
Probably what got him re-elected.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Members of the Parliamentary Service Commission, as at 30 June 2011 are:
Chair, Dr The Rt Hon Lockwood Smith, MP
Leader of the House, Hon Gerry Brownlee, MP
For the Leader of the Opposition, Hon Annette King, MP
For the National Party, Chris Tremain, MP
For the Act Party, Hon Sir Roger Douglas, MP
For the Māori Party, Te Ururoa Flavell, MP
For the Labour Party, Hon Rick Barker, MP
For the Green Party, Metiria Tūrei, MP
For the Progressive Party, Hon Jim Anderton, MPLockwood's the Chair. He can't duck the responsibility and you can't duck it for him. Obviously Douglas has gone, and Anderton as well. Shearer was new at his job and Gerry was apparently busy in Chch. I wasn't making this a partisan thing, but you seem to be intent on that course. I'm just talking about responsibilities. If Lockwit wants the best seat in the House, the flat that goes with it, the respect and admiration of all around etc, then he has to step up. He hasn't and he's made himself look like a complete tosser into the bargain.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Did you have to go ballistic?
Not...going...there...
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
From http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/AboutParl/HowPWorks/Speaker/PSC/
The Commission is made up of representatives from each of the parliamentary political parties, chaired by the Speaker.
So really, we're back to Lockwit, aren't we? Did he convene the PSC to discuss this matter? It appears not. Would they convene without him? I doubt it very much, given the rulings he's made in the House based on tradition, especially around respect for the role of the Speaker.
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Other threadjack: I posted on the Megaupload thread that rnbxclusive.com has been shut down by SOCA in the UK
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Slight threadjack but RNZ says the High Court has ordered the Government to reconsider a Chinese bid to buy the Crafar farms.