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 May 15 2019, 05:22 PM
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 Shakin Stevens
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Does anyone know when the votes of the elections next Thursday are counted? We don't hAve an all Nighter to look forward to do we?
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May 15 2019, 05:26 PM
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 Howdy, disco citizens
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ May 15 2019, 06:22 PM)  Does anyone know when the votes of the elections next Thursday are counted? We don't hAve an all Nighter to look forward to do we? Apparently, they will be announced on Sunday evening/Monday morning, so an all nighter, but at the end of the weekend. |
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May 15 2019, 05:36 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Disappointing, I'm off the Friday although the Mondays a bank holiday so will be able to watch it anyway!
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May 15 2019, 06:06 PM
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In the past, the verification process (checking that the number of ballot papers in each box matches the number issued) has taken place on the Thursday night with the count itself on Sunday. This year (here at least), the verification process is on Sunday morning. I have been led to believe that the count will start in the afternoon which may mean a declaration very soon after the polls have closed in the countries sensible enough to vote on Sunday.
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May 15 2019, 09:41 PM
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QUOTE(Suedehead2 @ May 11 2019, 01:02 PM) It goes beyond that. Just one week before the local elections there was a Tory MP on HIGNFY. That, apparently, was perfectly OK. The BBC / Hat Trick Production went ahead and recorded the programme on Thursday night knowing that there was an election due in just two weeks' time. They obviously went ahead in t he belief that there wouldn't be a problem. They spent Friday editing the programme and were all set to show it. Then, less than an hour before it was due to be shown, the show was pulled. The whole thing stinks. Meanwhile, Farage is on the Andrew Marr show tomorrow along with a Labour and Tory guest. No doubt he will be given the usual soft ride. There will be no Lib Dem on the show. There wasn't one on the show last week either, despite the fact that it came just a few days after the party had performed spectacularly well in the local elections. I look forward to the whole of next week's show being given over to Vince Cable or Tom Brake (EU spokesman) just to restore balance And, just to add to the mix, the BBC are due to show the first episode of o five=part series about Thatcher on Monday night. According to my EPG her inner circle will be revealing how she rose to be PM. That makes it sound like a series of one-hour Tory PPBs, but apparently that's OK a few days before an election. |
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May 15 2019, 10:09 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Doesn't sound fair - is it from one of her auto/biographies? I've read a few and they're quite good. But yeh propaganda just before a vote. Might help to highlight how her system has caused the flaws we are living with nowadays though!
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May 16 2019, 07:20 AM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ May 15 2019, 11:09 PM) Doesn't sound fair - is it from one of her auto/biographies? I've read a few and they're quite good. But yeh propaganda just before a vote. Might help to highlight how her system has caused the flaws we are living with nowadays though! If so, I suspect that won’t be until later episodes - after the election. |
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May 22 2019, 03:05 PM
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 I'm a paragon so don't perceive me
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/8-to...-party-16179913
The vast majority of Brexit Party supporting accounts on social media are, shock horror, bots. Meanwhile, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48351281 large numbers of UK expats in the EU worried their votes won't count because of postal voting incompetencies. Happy voting day tomorrow everyone, make sure you go and vote and make the democratically elected EU something you participated in. |
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May 22 2019, 06:39 PM
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Andrea Leadsom has resigned from the cabinet.
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May 22 2019, 06:48 PM
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Howdy, disco citizens
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QUOTE(LexC @ May 22 2019, 07:39 PM) Andrea Leadsom has resigned from the cabinet. Interestingly, she signed the letter in a pen colour that matches the colour of the Brexit Party. Not sure whether it's purposeful, or I'm reading more into it than I should, in my usual way. |
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May 22 2019, 07:09 PM
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And so Theresa May extends her lead as the PM to suffer the most Cabinet resignations per month in office.
Gavin WIlliamson was sacked the day before the local elections. Loathsome has resigned the day before the European elections. Who will go the day before the Peterborough byelection? |
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May 22 2019, 07:12 PM
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Hopefully the prime minister
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May 22 2019, 07:24 PM
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May needs to go of course, she's finished now. Problem is the person we get in is likely to be far worse and willing to cave to the far-right of the Party.
For anyone in Yorkshire - looks like Lib Dems are on course for 1 seat. Not sure they have enough for 2, might be worth going for the Green Party. |
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May 22 2019, 07:44 PM
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I'm voting Green tomorrow as it will hopefully stop an additional Brexit Party seat: https://www.remainvoter.com/how-to-vote-south-west
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May 22 2019, 07:56 PM
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WINTER IS COMING
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I still think The Brexit Party are being over-egged in the polls. I'm sure they will probably get the majority, but the polls look a bit off to me. Be interesting to see.
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May 22 2019, 08:00 PM
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QUOTE(Doctor Blind @ May 22 2019, 08:44 PM) I'm voting Green tomorrow as it will hopefully stop an additional Brexit Party seat: https://www.remainvoter.com/how-to-vote-south-west Some of their recommendations are decidedly weird. In at least one region they are saying people should vote for ChUK even though I suspect - as I said a few weeks ago - that they will not win any seats. |
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May 22 2019, 09:46 PM
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The South East and London regions are too large for tactical voting to be useful, even if the polling is very close to the actual result (if it's an Australia-sized error then tactical voting anywhere is useless/will backfire). There I would 100% recommend voting how you feel.
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May 22 2019, 10:05 PM
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I'll just stick around and do some more damage
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I was wondering if I should look up what a good tactical vote would be but yeah, I'm in the southeast where it's not really a thing. And I'm definitely not going to vote for the CUKs like that site recommends. Wavering between Lib Dem and Green but I think I'm leaning towards the latter. My first vote for anyone other than Labour!! (only because voting Labour in an EU election feels entirely pointless)
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May 22 2019, 11:30 PM
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WINTER IS COMING
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QUOTE(Bré @ May 22 2019, 11:05 PM) I was wondering if I should look up what a good tactical vote would be but yeah, I'm in the southeast where it's not really a thing. And I'm definitely not going to vote for the CUKs like that site recommends. Wavering between Lib Dem and Green but I think I'm leaning towards the latter. My first vote for anyone other than Labour!! (only because voting Labour in an EU election feels entirely pointless) Hopefully the pummeling Labour get in this election will be a lesson in how to re-think their strategy. My message to anyone is don't vote Labour if you want to stay in the EU. |
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May 23 2019, 12:50 AM
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I'm a paragon so don't perceive me
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I'm voting Lib Dems in the South West, against some tactical voting sites but with what I want to vote for, because the whole business of tactical voting on this system is (well, that site already says that 'Lib Dems already have an MEP', well someone needs to make sure that's the case, we still need to make sure both parties get an MEP and there's enough space to work with it. Very much hope that for both Lib Dems and Green.
The unfortunate thing is that I happen to know that all of the candidates for Labour in the south west are for Remain, but the party nationally isn't. |
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