Sentences with phrase «fail referendum on»

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She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

After the Galena referendum failed to stop the riverboat's arrival, he decided to challenge the casino industry on the grounds that casino gambling is a threat to the quality of community life.

But if the district «s suit fails and the petition drive is successful, the referendum questions favored by the petition drive organizers would appear on the ballot, according to officials.

During the failed referendum campaign earlier this month to build an aquatic park, Zirk said he heard residents say the money would be better spent on fixing the village's water and street problems.

After two hours of public comment Thursday, park board members at a special meeting voted 3 - 3 on a referendum measure, meaning the motion failed.

Zopmal said the Middle Belt region would not take a step back on restructuring and would immediately usher in a demand for referendum if restructuring fails.

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

However, this policy of holding a referendum on AV appears to be designed to fail, as I pointed out in my blog four months ago when Gordon Brown first suggested it.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

Political capital: Brown's failed here, pitching STV as the likely option on the referendum ballot would have driven a wedge in to westminster.

On the other hand, if the Scottish government fails to achieve this or gain enough support for a second independence referendum, Labour could claim to have a credible alternative that voters can support in a Scottish election.

He wrote to the Smith Commission: «The argument some use to justify our exclusion on the grounds that we currently have no «parliamentary representation» fails to appreciate that the referendum was not a parliamentary process, but an unprecedented public debate that resulted in an extraordinary level of engagement from all sections of society.»

Rebel Tory backbenchers fail in their attempt to impose thresholds on the AV Referendum - but 21 MPs back the bid before the bill clears the Commons

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

So if Labour offered the Lib Dems a convention followed by a referendum on the convebtion's proposal I'd be happy with that - I wouldn't then see Labour as responsible for failing to effect a coalition.

They also believe that the Lib Dems may as well concede the referendum because the prime minister has made it a «red line» issue and made clear that he would resign if he failed to deliver on his pledge.

Appeasing the nationalist right rarely works — something which David Cameron failed to understand with his own attempts to curb immigration through clamping down on «health tourism» or the offer of a EU referendum.

@ 79 I agree, but think the same applies to the Tories — Cameron will blame the failings of any Tory admin on the Lib Dems and go to the people before any referendum can come through / the results put to legislation (or perhaps even call a general election on it).

If we are to have a referendum on Biafra, it will fail; even if it will win, it will only be in the South - East zone, which has only five states against 31 other states.»

Arlene McCarthy opposes it on the grounds that «the Eurosceptics pushing for this referendum have failed to come up with alternatives to our membership of the EU.»

The AV and EU referendums failed to go his way, while five years of coalition with the Conservatives diminished his party such that they were wiped out at the 2015 election, with Clegg's seat, on the back of a student vote, angry about tuition fees, turning Corbynite two years later.

But the agenda failed its first serious test in the defeated AV referendum, and now it has failed on the Lords too.

A bill to give voters a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU today officially failed in the House of Lords.

The TU says Cuomo should turn the 2014 elections into a referendum on reform if lawmakers fail yet again to pass significant legislation to clean up Albany.

The Lib Dem leader previously refused to back calls for a referendum on the EU treaty, arguing it was not necessary as the document appeared to differ sufficiently from the failed EU constitution.

«Those who support a consolidation do not want to set back any progress toward it by having a public vote that could decisively fail,» Reeher said, referring to a referendum this November on a Consensus» proposed government merger.

Speaking of Gerson's failed amendment to hold a referendum on extending term limits, Mendez says, «Alan... all I can say about that amendment is it was lame — and everyone knew it.»

Labriola, the party chairman, said that the election will be a «referendum on Connecticut's failed economy» and that the candidates are looking to use disappointment in their favor.

Senior Labour MPs privately blame Lamont for showing poor, lacklustre leadership both during and immediately after the referendum, failing to capitalise on the no camp's victory and allowing the SNP to seize the agenda.

If the referendum fails, the law allows for an additional slot machine parlor on Long Island.

To answer you're question, Labour lost because of the economy, on Scotland (by failing to deal with the referendum and it's fallout and by not countering Cameron's allegation that there would be a Labour SNP coalition — not likely and not as distasteful as a Tory - DUP coalition), and because they did not put enough of a policy gap between themselves and the Tories.

In Arizona an effort by one church group to place a referendum opposing «atheistic teaching» on next month's ballot failed to obtain the required 55,000 petition signatures.»

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * Bill List * AB 1266 Referendum Fails * Stay Up to Date on CDE Reporting and Corrections Deadlines * Energy Commission Announces Second Webinar for Proposition 39 (Energy Efficiency) Program Training * Happenings: Updates and Deadlines

School board members and superintendents appearing before the Assembly education committee questioned why Republicans want to inject themselves in local affairs during a public hearing on a bill that would prohibit school districts from bringing a failed referendum back to voters for two years.

The most well - known attempt to incorporate a reference to Indigenous Australians was the failed referendum of 1999, when Australians, in addition to voting on whether Australia should become a republic, voted on whether to adopt a new preamble to the Australian Constitution.