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European Election - 23rd May 2019


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4 minutes ago, Detournement said:

This may be tricky for you to understand but there can be schisms within the elite eg the Bush and Trump families are elites but are politically opposed.

In the UK the vast majority of the establishment are supporters of EU administered neoliberalism: the financial sector, the media, the legal profession, the civil service  and most big corporations. The much smaller group of elites who want to take us out are influenced by nostalgia for the British Empire and/or extreme Randian politics promoted by rich American crackpots.

The bottom line is that both groups want essentially the same thing they only differ in methodology.

 

See with all these schisms amongst all these various and disparate elites, which one should I call the most elite? Is there a league placing? Who/what is the most elite?

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Horrendous reading about the EU Citizens being turned away at polling stations even though they’d registered because they hadn’t filled in an additional form that no one told them existed. Absolutely disgraceful from this deceitful, vile, incompetent Tory government to allow this to happen, although in no way surprising whatsoever.

Genuinely feel embarrassed to have to consider myself part of the “United Kingdom” and the scum running it.

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18 minutes ago, Principal Flutie said:

Place was empty when I went in to vote, but on the way back out, some guy walked in wearing a hoodie with the union jack on it. I wasn't filled with optimism about that guy's vote.

Ideal piece of kit for this weather, bit too warm for a jacket but also windy enough to rule out just a shirt or T-shirt.

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Just went a walk with the parents (who haven't voted yet) back to the polling station.

Asked the staff what the turnout was from my area. 

17%. 

Yeah low turnout is looking likely. 

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4 minutes ago, Im_Rodger said:

Just went a walk with the parents back to the polling station.

Asked the staff what the turnout was from my area. 

17%.

Far higher than the average home support at a Hamilton game then.

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1 hour ago, Detournement said:

The much smaller group of elites who want to take us out are influenced by nostalgia for the British Empire and/or extreme Randian politics promoted by rich American crackpots.

Bollocks imo. They want full scale financial deregulation, ripping apart workers' protections, environmental controls etc, and to make a packet. The Americans are useful idiots to fund it and provide some marketing expertise. Look at Farage on referendum night saying they'd lost when he knew from  private polling that he'd won, followed by an upward spike in the pound.

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18 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

 They want full scale financial deregulation, ripping apart workers' protections, environmental controls etc, and to make a packet.

And the Schroeder/Merkel, Blair/Cameron, Sarkozy/Macron faction haven't deregulated finance, reduced workers rights, failed to tackle climate change and overseen the 1%'s wealth increasing hugely over the past 15-20 years?

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Detournement said:

And the Schroeder/Merkel, Blair/Cameron, Sarkozy/Macron faction haven't deregulated finance, reduced workers rights, failed to tackle climate change and overseen the 1%'s wealth increasing hugely over the past 15-20 years?

 

 

No.

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Not sure drawing a dick next to someone's name is expressing a clear preference. That was probably the dispute.

If it one dick in one box it a clear vote.

 

The law states a clear 'mark' not a cross.

So if you hate one person on ballot and decide to go in and draw a cock against their name then it can be argued and has been won with a Returning Officer if that the only mark on the ballot paper then that is a clear mark and a vote for that candidate....

 

Always draw cocks against all candidates that are cocks

 

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Just voted. Me and my partner were both swithering between SNP and Green until the end. I went SNP, she went Green, hope they both do well 

Turnout of around 45% at my local polling station so far apparently.

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Just now, UsedToGoToCentralPark said:

The Brexit Party logo is really either well thought out or a stroke of luck as the arrow really does grab your attention and point to the box you put your cross. Stuck out significantly on the paper IMO.

Having all that prepared with a Party set up only a free weeks ago with £25 subs from supporters is bollocks. It's the slickest launch of a party I've seen anywhere and it must have cost a bomb. If American money and expertise is not involved I'll eat my chocolate hat. Look at the fucking state of Change UK for example, and they've had much longer.

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32 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said:

If it one dick in one box it a clear vote.

 

The law states a clear 'mark' not a cross.

So if you hate one person on ballot and decide to go in and draw a cock against their name then it can be argued and has been won with a Returning Officer if that the only mark on the ballot paper then that is a clear mark and a vote for that candidate....

 

Always draw cocks against all candidates that are cocks

 

Brexit are going to get loads of votes that way.

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Didn't look to have been many names scored off the list when we went down at the back of 8 but the SNP got teo votes from our house. 

One of the birds scored a bullseye on the Brexit party leaflet too. Hoping it's an omen.

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12 hours ago, Detournement said:

Workers from all over Europe competing for the same jobs isn't a socialist aspiration. 

Full employment is the most basic socialist aspiration and it's impossible with FoM. 

Full employment is classed as 3% unemployment due to the transient nature of the modern workforce.  Get out of the 1970s.

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