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And been bloody rude on another page. I think she's trying to squeeze some statistics. |
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PTO, "A Prime Minister can be brought down with a no confidence vote." he is also supposed to be brought down by failure of a Financial Bill. I think you'll find this is Convention, not Statute. Another Convention is you can't pass retrospective legislation. In fact, in the Burmah Oil case this was flouted in the 1940's. We passed a law to compensate the Burmah Oil Co for blowing up their oil wells ahead of the Japs, then passed another refusing it after the war. There was a convention if 1 MP was unable to attend the House for certain good reason, one from the other side would not vote. "Pairing". This was flouted in the 1970's and Labour stayed in power for another year. In practice, though the PM might constantly lose other votes and the country be ungovernable, which is why your statement is correct but can be flouted. |
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Mark I'm talking about the pairing dispute which I think involved the Liberals too. |
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I HAVE A HARD TIME WITH AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAVING THE POWER OF VETO. I MAY BE WRONG BUT IT KIND OF TAKES THE POWER AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE. |
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Pete: The President has the power of the Veto but it can be overirden with a 2/3 vote of the house and the senate. The US is a Representative Democracy and our elected officials are supposed to vote the will of the people or they supposedly will not get elected again, supposedly. |
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As far as I'm concerned, George Bush quite rightly has the power of veto, because many democrats were grandtanding knowing their bluff wouldn't be called because you've got a President with courage. |
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Flash tell me which of the demcratic candidates would want to be president with a war going on in Iraq and the situation in Iran? Thats why they are so interested in putting a date on ending the war. Risky business though and it could backfire on them. The public might construe it as a sign of weakness and go the other way looking for a candidate that is tougher on protecting us from islamic terrorists. If any one of the candidates had a platform that promised to take back the borders by putting the National Guard in numbers their building fenses or whatever it takes he or she would win hands down. Not going to happen though. |
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BigSnow; Are we talking about the Canadian Border here? PBA has been getting Sassy lately. Of course in the UK, our Border is intangible, Lunar House, the Immigration HQ where illegal immigrants are given work permits and social security numbers by other recent immigrants. The rape of applicants and asylum seekerswas heavily reported. One person who spoke aout against biased (i.e. accurate) reporting was Samie Chakrabati, head of "Liberty", the immigrants' organisation. Amazingly, she is sister of Rita Chakrabati, BBC's spokesman (sorry, I must say spokesperson. Bugger it! I speak English.) on Immigration affairs. Peter |
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Tin Can, we have to build fences to keep these modern day sooners from makin' a mad dash and grabbin' all they can for the gun sounds  Sides we want them to give us those folk so we can test their suitabilty for we permit enterence To be serious though I think it is not just the illegal immigrants that are behind the fence. We have to get some kind of control over our borders with the threat of terror sneekin' in as easy as 12 million illegals did. |
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flashman - I noted that you feel President Bush is a man of courage. I wondered on what you based your belief? Please assume I'm intellectually curious, not seeking some strung out battle. I am interested in actual acts of courage, not reflections or statements that may seem courageous. I only ask that you reflect on your answers so this string can be kept down to forty or fifty responses. I promise to keep my praise of your awareness or opinions to the contrary just as reflective. |
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