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Gonzo McFee posted:Did they remember what you said about Saint Thatcher? I don't get it! Been registered at the same address for nearly 5 years, voted in the general and London mayoral elections and now I'm mysteriously erased from the register. Edit (and I voted in the av referendum!) Necrothatcher fucked around with this message at 16:33 on May 22, 2014 |
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Mr. Flunchy posted:They wouldn't let me vote Why not? Are you secretly Romanian? Voted Green, they could have a reasonable chance in our council ward, our last councillor was a Lib Dem who switched to Green, she does decent work and they've been campaigning a lot more than the others.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I don't get it! Been registered at the same address for nearly 5 years, voted in the general and London mayoral elections and now I'm mysteriously erased from the register. Did you get a card? Have you registered for a postal vote? Are they coming for you right now?
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Coohoolin posted:Hey guys I was thinking of writing a wee blog about my time in St Petersburg from a Scottish Socialist perspective, I've already had some interesting culture clashes and learned some cool stuff, anyone have a good blog hosting site to recommend? I used to use Wordpress: it's nothing flashy but it's quite straightforward.
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Trickjaw posted:Did you get a card? Have you registered for a postal vote? Are they coming for you right now? I dunno about a card, my house has been a building site for the last month and I've been getting my post forwarded to my temp address. Russell Brand was right when he said not to bother.
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Voted Green up here in Scotland as the least-worst. I've also looked up their first-placed candidate, Maggie Chapman, on the internet and she seems a good egg. (I'm awaiting the immediate UKMT character assasination, but I've already voted so too late, everyone.) I've been looking at a few different charts based on option polls with varyingly reasonable sample sizes declaring the exact way I need to vote to keep UKIP out, but they don't seem to particularly agree and I have the feeling tactical voting might not be as easy as it is for our old friend FPTP. Also I think I'm sworn off tactical voting now out of pure stubbornness. If the bigger parties want my second preferences they can drat well give me a voting system that lets me express them. Harumph harumph, etc.
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May 22, 2014 16:52
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Voted Green three times now, this vote early and vote often lark isn't as difficult as they make out.
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Angepain posted:Voted Green up here in Scotland as the least-worst. I've also looked up their first-placed candidate, Maggie Chapman, on the internet and she seems a good egg. (I'm awaiting the immediate UKMT character assasination, but I've already voted so too late, everyone.) I've been looking at a few different charts based on option polls with varyingly reasonable sample sizes declaring the exact way I need to vote to keep UKIP out, but they don't seem to particularly agree and I have the feeling tactical voting might not be as easy as it is for our old friend FPTP. Also I think I'm sworn off tactical voting now out of pure stubbornness. If the bigger parties want my second preferences they can drat well give me a voting system that lets me express them. Harumph harumph, etc. Basically, the SNP or Labour need to quadruple UKIP's vote (it looks like the SNP will), or, the Greens need to simply beat them.
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May 22, 2014 17:00
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Voted Green Party for being the least worst. Every other party on the paper (bar Labour who are hilariously inept) were some combination of "Racist" and "Tory".
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:huh http://news.sky.com/story/1266550/royal-mail-posts-430m-in-full-year-profits I saw a "Royal Mail" van earlier today that I really should have taken pictures of, parked in a street near my house. The guy inside it was reading a newspaper looking bored as gently caress, but the hilarious thing about it was that it was an entirely white van with normal desktop printed "ROYAL MAIL" logos stuck with cheap lovely masking tape to the sides of it. 
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May 22, 2014 17:13
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Pesmerga posted:Congrats on voting for right wing idiots on the basis of complete misconceptions about the functioning of parliaments and international relations generally and the European Parliament specifically, I guess. Relax i don`t even the rigth to vote in this election. But I look forward more of this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/jean-marie-le-pen-ebola-population-explosion-europe-immigration?commentpage=3 From the honourable members of the European Parlament. May Monsiur Jean never shut up after his reelection. This is exactly the kind opinions i want people to associate the EU with.
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Baudolino posted:Relax i don`t even the rigth to vote in this election. Guardian posted:Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right Front National, has suggested the deadly virus Ebola could solve the global "population explosion" and by extension Europe's "immigration problem". People already associate the EU with things like this and they're evidently quite happy to vote for that. People aren't going to 'learn their lesson' or anything, they know exactly what they're voting for.
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It's not really 'funny', because as a victim of bullying I know how bad it can be, but maybe it's a little 'just' in some ways... Gove's kids are being bullied so much that he considered sending them to Italy to be schooled
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^^^ I like how it's not kids bullying them, it's THE TEACHING UNIONSBaudolino posted:Relax i don`t even the rigth to vote in this election. Are you by any chance a white male? Voting the far right into a position of political power isn't like electing some clown party to make the whole thing look ridiculous. Not only are you normalising extremist and heavily regressive views and giving them a very public platform, you're actually handing them influence over the people they want to persecute. Fascists are loving dangerous, even if not to you personally. You're not teaching anyone a valuable lesson here baka kaba fucked around with this message at 17:38 on May 22, 2014 |
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Baudolino posted:Relax i don`t even the rigth to vote in this election. He isn't saying that because he is a European, he's saying that because he's a fascist. There are plenty of politicians across Europe with similar views. A number of them are allied with our conservative party in the European Parliament, when they left the right wing grouping because it wasn't right wing enough.
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SybilVimes posted:It's not really 'funny', because as a victim of bullying I know how bad it can be, but maybe it's a little 'just' in some ways... Much though I hate the man, I find it very difficult to laugh at a couple of kids getting abused because of him. They didn't choose him as their father.
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ThomasPaine posted:Much though I hate the man, I find it very difficult to laugh at a couple of kids getting abused because of him. They didn't choose him as their father. But perhaps it may be a wakeup call? I doubt it, but you can hope. e: on the plus side, thanks to labour, I doubt his kids have to face the pinnacle of the bullying I got - which was when one of my bullies decided to bring some of his dad's 303 rounds and start hitting them with bricks in an attempt to get one to shoot me while being held down by his mates. SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 22, 2014 |
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Baudolino posted:Relax i don`t even the rigth to vote in this election. people do not associate Le Pen with the European Parliament.
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A reminder to everyone to check their local candidates, and if there is a TUSC candidate, an anti-cuts candidate, a green candidate (though the Greens are a little problematic in places) then vote for them. In the EU elections then No2EU would be the way I'd go. However where I am we have six different 'totally not racist' bunches together, including UKIP and at least one UKIP splinter.
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Zohar posted:people do not associate Le Pen with the European Parliament. I wouldn't worry too much. I don't think anyone buys this rationale (if there is one). Its not like that kind of attitude has caused problems in the past, eh?
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Baudolino posted:Relax i don`t even the rigth to vote in this election. This is the kind of opinion people associate with the anti-EU crowd, not the other way around. People aren't going to associate the opinions of anti-EU politicians with the EU.
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Seems like we have a lot of South East's in here... Anyway voted Green in the EUs and TUSC in the locals. Didn't have time to find out which kind of socialist the TUSC candidate was so apologies if I voted for the wrong kind  I found out my work friend was planning on voting UKIP "because it doesn't make a difference to me anyway". I tried explaining how he was a fuckwit but he wouldn't listen. His fiance is going to as well, but considering the amount of "British First" stuff she posts on Facebook at least she isn't going to vote for the Actual Fascists.
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Angepain posted:Voted Green up here in Scotland as the least-worst. I've also looked up their first-placed candidate, Maggie Chapman, on the internet and she seems a good egg. (I'm awaiting the immediate UKMT character assasination, but I've already voted so too late, everyone.) I've been looking at a few different charts based on option polls with varyingly reasonable sample sizes declaring the exact way I need to vote to keep UKIP out, but they don't seem to particularly agree and I have the feeling tactical voting might not be as easy as it is for our old friend FPTP. Also I think I'm sworn off tactical voting now out of pure stubbornness. If the bigger parties want my second preferences they can drat well give me a voting system that lets me express them. Harumph harumph, etc. Maggie Chapman is totally sound and is also down with the Radical Independence Campaign. The Scottish Greens have certainly impressed me over the past year, though it's a shame they cant just clone Patrick Harvie and install him in every seat in the parliament.
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ThomasPaine posted:Much though I hate the man, I find it very difficult to laugh at a couple of kids getting abused because of him. They didn't choose him as their father. We have only the word of Gove's wife that this occurring, and quite frankly, having taught children of this age, I don't believe for a second their peers know who his father is in anything but the most vague sense. Primary children are surprisingly ignorant of politics, because it largely goes over their heads and they have more important things to think about like Moshi Monsters and Football. Bullying is considered a serious offence these days, and systematic abuse such that Sarah Vine describes would be dealt with extremely harshly.
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HortonNash posted:We have only the word of Gove's wife that this occurring, and quite frankly, having taught children of this age, I don't believe for a second their peers know who his father is in anything but the most vague sense. Primary children are surprisingly ignorant of politics, because it largely goes over their heads and they have more important things to think about like Moshi Monsters and Football. Didn't you read? quote:"Part of me wants to put them on a plane to go and live with my mother in Italy, but part of me thinks it will make them tougher. They are not shrinking violets. It's not as though they're delicate flowers: they are quite sturdy creatures, but I do think at some point there is going to be payback." They won't deal with it, it's an old-fashioned prison-yard shanking with the unionised teachers looking the other way!
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TinTower posted:Vote Labour. Isn't tat the nice man accused of sexual assault on a Bulgarian homeless person?
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SybilVimes posted:on the plus side, thanks to labour, I doubt his kids have to face the pinnacle of the bullying I got - which was when one of my bullies decided to bring some of his dad's 303 rounds and start hitting them with bricks in an attempt to get one to shoot me while being held down by his mates.  where and when was this?
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TinTower posted:Vote Labour. Reminder that Robin Wales is an outright fascist who established his own police force until the actual Police threatened to arrest them en masse. Interesting wrinkle in Tower Hamlets - I've posted before that the Tories tend to be underrepresented here because although there's a fairly massive natural Tory demographic (both old-fashioned Basildon Man types and the arriviste Canary Wharf crowd) the positioning of the polling stations, in schools that tend to be in the middle of the old council estates, who are of course full of Those People. Tonight though I noticed three portakabin Polling Stations on the way home, all positioned as close as possible to new developments. It's not like actual physical distance (or overcrowding - turnout is always low) is a barrier here, this seems like a pretty blatant "Vote here without having to see brown people" move on the part of the Tory councillors.
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Have we talked about how Prince Charles has gone all godwin and called Putin Hitler? Because he has and it's caused a stir: In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Russia wanted an explanation from Britain about whether Charles expressed that view and whether the wider British government shares it. "We consider the use of a member of the British royal family by the Western press for waging a propaganda campaign against Russia over ... the situation in Ukraine as unacceptable, outrageous and base," Lukashevich said. Russian Embassy officials in London met British Foreign Office counterparts Thursday. The embassy said in a statement it sought "official clarifications" of the prince's "outrageous remarks." http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-govt-condemns-prince-charles-comments-23821727
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Reminder that Robin Wales is an outright fascist who established his own police force until the actual Police threatened to arrest them en masse. You see this a lot in safe Labour met councils (and their parliamentary candidates): they're very often crypto-tory or even crypto-fascist.
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Yorkshire, 1985 or 1986. Thankfully, he got bored of bashing the bullet with a brick before the bell went, and I avoided him the rest of the day (it was AM break). He did manage to get one to go off at some point in the PM break, and got in trouble for it, but afaik it was just him and his psycho mates around at the time. Our school had this weird dichotomy thing going on, on the one hand it's always been pretty high up on achievements; academically, sports and other things like the school band, yet we had some of the weirdest thugs and thugish behaviour - for 2 weeks in 1986 all the 'hard kids' (maybe 30-40 kids total) decided that their new lunchtime sport would be knife fights with the nearby rival school (they fancied themselves as some weird west side story thing), a couple of kids ended up in hospital with minor injuries, the police got involved, and eventually leaving the school grounds during lunch was forbidden unless you had parental approval.
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SybilVimes posted:Yorkshire, 1985 or 1986. After our GCSEs there was supposedly a "chav v. emo" fight. At a state grammar school. 
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Voted Lib Dem for Europe, since they're the only main party who have not promised a referendum and are generally pro-Europe. And like Peter Mandelson, I certainly agree that membership of the EU is far too important and complex a decision to be left to the general population to decide. We'd only end up rejoining in ten to fifteen years time anyway, and we'd lose all the sweet things we currently have grandfathered in. Voted Tory for the council because the current set of Tory councillors is doing pretty good, as a whole the area works and looking through the minutes of recent council meetings, they don't seem terrible (reading council minutes is weird, so many occurrences of "You can't make it up!"). Also it's a Tory stronghold. The eight wards that cover the constituency all returned 24 Conservatives out of a possible 24 seats. I don't think I'd vote either party in at a General Election though. Though that would leave Labour, and as compelling as some of their proposed policies are, I do need to see how they'd be financed. I do currently pay a fair whack of tax, and I suspect that would go up if some of the policies were enacted.
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Kaislioc posted:I assume having pricks milling about outside is uncomfortable but acceptable, but I forget, are they actually allowed to leave their little "Vote X!" cards inside the actual polling booths? Tellers aren't allowed to enter polling stations (except to cast their own vote). TinTower fucked around with this message at 18:53 on May 22, 2014 |
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Thundercloud posted:A reminder to everyone to check their local candidates, and if there is a TUSC candidate, an anti-cuts candidate, a green candidate (though the Greens are a little problematic in places) then vote for them. We got a No2EU thing through the door which I read, but I couldn't work out from it why you would want to elect them to the European Parliament. All of their polices were about withdrawing from the EU and renationalising things, none of which the European Parliament has any say over. I get that they'd basically just be a left-wing voice in the European Parliament, and would try to resist some of the more neoliberal stuff. But the way No2EU presented itself in the leaflet made me think that electing them to the European Parliament was entirely pointless. Then again, the same could be said of UKIP for the same reasons, but lots of people still vote for them.
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