I assume you mean the referendum system in Switzerland craig ? Audrey Young discussed referendums in the Herald yesterday and I think she makes good points http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/n...ectid=11596250
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I assume you mean the referendum system in Switzerland craig ? Audrey Young discussed referendums in the Herald yesterday and I think she makes good points http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/n...ectid=11596250
My reason for supporting the Swiss referendum system is blindingly obvious From Audrey Young's article. Politicians, here and in Britain and other places behave very like football hooligans. Never mind the game, kick s**t out of the opposition. Any publicity is good publicity - Your guy is always right no matter how thick he is. Now tell me, without the aid of a search engine. What are the names of the main Swiss parties? - Who is the Swiss Prime Minister? and so on. They are primarily public servants who get on with running the country without the need for Punch and Judy booths. They can run a dozen referenda a year at miimal cost by our standards.
Bernie's son says 'it's all over for Dad'
Rubio v Clinton
Key will get on fine with President Rubio
So what you are saying is nothing changes. When they had the seat for over 40 years they neglected Northland and now they have lost the seat they are actually spending quite a bit of money, but for some bizarre reason not where they promised win or no win in their campaign
Well it is doing us good as Northland is booming. Just need better roads and National to keep their mining agenda out of the province.
Northland is by far a National electorate and will return at some point, however National needed teaching a lesson for the neglect.
Sabin, last I heard he was appointed GM of Carrington Estate a massive Chinese resort in Northland.
No news on anything else that we are not allowed to now anything about.
One of the issues with name suppression (which has its place) is that there is no transparency
If I were an American citizen, I would be swallowing hard, very hard, swallowing dead rats, and preparing to vote Hillary Clinton in to keep that raving lunatic Donald Trump out.
I see John Howard the ex Australian PM has come out against Trump this morning.
Pity the Republican alternatives have folded so easily.
I agree fully with your assessment of Trump, think however that he might be of the Republican candidates the best of a catastrophic bunch. Trump is in my view mainly a populist (think Winston) - he just says what he thinks the mainstream pub goer and retirement home inhabitant wants to hear. Don't think he has what it needs to be president, but so hadn't George W ...
What distinguishes him however from the other Republican candidates is that Trump just says what he thinks the public wants to hear, while the others are really anti-healthcare, pro-guns, anti-immigration and pro-waging-some-more-wars.
Yes - Clinton seems to be the only sort of acceptable alternative, though I don't think that she would improve a lot in the US of A (as preferred candidate of the "establishment"). She certainly won't rattle the cage ... but is as well least likely to further run the country down. Despite the amazing entertainment value of the US election campaign ... what a choice for the US electorate!