On 9 Apr 2008, at 12:37, Robin Paulson wrote: > 2008/4/9 Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> maybe someone should tell the government? apparently we're all >>>> wasting >>>> our time voting for them, and 'rough consensus' should be used to >>>> decide who's in power. >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Bruce Cowan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:57 +0300, SteveC wrote: >>>> Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown >>>> (no >>>> election) ? >>> >>> I'm a pedant, but you never vote for a Prime Minister. You vote >>> for your >>> local MP and the leader of the party with the most MPs gets to be >>> Prime >>> Minister. >> >> Well, if we're being pedantic then the Queen appoints the PM, and by >> convention she chooses the person most likely to have the confidence >> of parliament. There's nothing other than "constitutional convention" >> to stop her picking anyone she likes, whether they're an MP or not, >> and whether parliament likes it or not -- luckily the convention >> seems >> quite strong. So all in all, there's not much voting going on, or >> where there is it isn't necessarily treated in the way you'd expect, >> which was kind of Steve's point. > > well, if we're being really, really pedantic, then i wasn't talking > about that government, but the one here (nz), where there are no damn > monarchs choosing leaders, and no hanging chads or cheating governors > to screw things up:
oh must be perfect over there then! :-) > > > http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781359.html > > so my point stands > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
