1968? There were literally riots
The loss was perceived to be the result of Johnson and Daley influencing behind the scenes. Humphrey, who had not entered any of the thirteen state primary elections, won the Democratic nomination shortly after midnight, and many delegates shouted, “No! No!” when his victory was announced
But the downside is that technically, regardless of what mechanism would trigger the dissolution of parliament, this has to be requested to and accepted by the King, who then sends out Writs of Electors
Of course in practice this is a rubber stamp tradition with no chance of not happening - if Charles went mad and tried to prevent this we would likely still have an election just with a side order of constitutional crisis and a wave of republicanism
But it’s still dumb
That is a very specific usage: ‘The Government’ as a proposer of law, Parliament as approvers. Outside of a PPE course it isn’t how the term is used and I think you know this.
In day to day use the government (small g) can be talked about as comprising anyone involved in governance, from the PM down to local councillors, depending on context
Calling people out on this based on a technicality is like correcting people when they say ‘speed’ instead of ‘velocity’, and it’s super irrelevant in a thread about MPs acting in a political capacity
You seem to be confused. The phrase ‘government official’ refers to anyone acting on behalf of the government, including backbenchers. This could even include unelected aides, spokespeople or some civil servants.
You’re thinking of the cabinet. You do not have to be in the cabinet to be a ‘government official’.
As a fellow brit, these Americans correcting you are right.
I’m the younger end of millennial - I did watch these as a kid but I was young enough that I don’t remember much. Don’t remember artax.
I wanna say there was a big big chill mammal thing but when I try to remember more I just picture Oppa from Avatar
I agree with your broader point about linguistics, but Chesterton’s fence has never sat right with me. Consider the inverse:
This annoying and unnecessary fence is an inconvenience, but since nobody can remember what it’s for, we dare not remove it
I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I’m hating people
100% there’s a culture of gatekeeping and elitism all too common around classical music - but it’s not the music’s fault
These potatos are woke, not enough salt
It’s just a missing word, it should say ‘who are part computer’. Most likely a typo
If they’d rather die then they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population!
So this, if it stands, keeps him off the Prinary ballot.
Hypothetically does it also keep him off the ballot in the General? Or does that need a new ruling?
Pavlov’s dog is not notable for showing that dogs could be conditioned (bell = food time)
What it did was show that a conditional response (bell = food time) could cause a reflexive response (saliva)
Classical conditioning is not the same as associative learning.
Pavlov’s dog is not about associating Thing A with Thing B - that didn’t need a russian scientist to prove.
Everybody is different - you haven’t figured out the one simple trick to avoid hangovers. Drinking lots of water is like, the most common thing to do and 99% of people still get bad hangovers
No but thats still, you’re not protecting anyone you’re just shooting
Yup! And all we get for it is healthcare, childcare, college tuition, pensions, sick leave, maternity leave…
What a completely normal and professional letter