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StoicFnord posted:Well that's poo poo. I thought HS2 was an attempt to get more money moving up north. Until it got shanked and up north became Birmingham. The Greens are not primarily a socialist party or anything and building lots of big new railway stuff through what is currently countryside and trees is kind of the antithesis of the sort of thing they historically support. v0v Edit: 1926 - the General Strike! A sort of thing more of which we could do with.
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StoicFnord posted:What do you think it was for? Ill admit to a lack of understanding on it. HS2 is basically meant to alleviate the fact that too many trains are using the West Coast Main Line by moving the long-distance WCML services onto a new line.
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I've only got PCC elections where I am and they're all saying the same thing about PCSOS and neighbourhood watches picking up the slack while saying there's too much bureaucracy about. gently caress that, can't even be arsed to spoil.
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Tesla was right posted:Drawing a cock on my ballot might count towards the greens in my area. Their candidate's name sounded like Dick Veins. Right, new plan. I'm going to stand as a candidate but change my name beforehand to A Cock Drawn On The Ballot Paper. All your protest votes will be mine, all mine
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TinTower posted:HS2 is basically meant to alleviate the fact that too many trains are using the West Coast Main Line by moving the long-distance WCML services onto a new line.
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Angepain posted:Right, new plan. I'm going to stand as a candidate but change my name beforehand to A Cock Drawn On The Ballot Paper. All your protest votes will be mine, all mine I'm pretty sure there's someone by that name who does PPE at my university.
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TheHoodedClaw posted:https://twitter.com/FionaHunterWood/status/728072906136113152/photo/1 You missed the best part, The Guardian reporting on how unusual it is for the The Sun to be reviewing an Ibsen play http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2016/may/05/the-sun-hugh-bonneville-downton-abbey-ibsen StoicFnord posted:What do you think it was for? Ill admit to a lack of understanding on it. So more people in places like Birmingham can be told, 'What do you mean there are no jobs, there's a super fast train to London where we've made loads of new jobs!' Its designed to increase the workforce for London so it can be the only place with any investment whilst making sure none of the plebs have to live there.
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May 5, 2016 17:41
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Dad voted for the first time since 1997  .
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StoicFnord posted:What do you think it was for? Ill admit to a lack of understanding on it. London will see the most benefit - if they wanted to improve the economy of the midlands and north through transport infrastructure improvement they would improve local lines/trains
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StoneOfShame posted:You missed the best part, The Guardian reporting on how unusual it is for the The Sun to be reviewing an Ibsen play Seeing as this is the Monkey section I think it was probably done in a knowing way, but that gives you one paper slyly nodding towards another that's slyly nodding towards something under injunction so it all gets to be a bit silly buggers.
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May 5, 2016 17:53
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Voted but unfortunately I doubt it will matter much as this area is blue with a marked purple tinge 
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TinTower posted:Remember, if you do draw willies on the ballot paper, make sure you do it over more than one candidate. The BNP were famous for claiming that swastikas next to their name on the ballot paper were actual votes. You can see their point though
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namesake posted:I've only got PCC elections where I am and they're all saying the same thing about PCSOS and neighbourhood watches picking up the slack while saying there's too much bureaucracy about. I'm glad we have one candidate standing (Willy Bach) who has vowed to fight back against all of that poo poo, however Geokinesis posted:Voted but unfortunately I doubt it will matter much as this area is blue with a marked purple tinge (In this case the city is red with a purple tinge and whatever Liz Kendall is, and the county is solid blue and will probably have a higher turnout.)
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Phoon posted:London will see the most benefit - if they wanted to improve the economy of the midlands and north through transport infrastructure improvement they would improve local lines/trains It's not one or the other at all when it comes to new railway lines. Quite the opposite actually: this will create more capacity for local commuter services along the traditional lines as well. And it will benefit journeys all across the country. I don't think I'll use this line more than once a year but I'm still very much in favour.
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Angepain posted:Right, new plan. I'm going to stand as a candidate but change my name beforehand to A Cock Drawn On The Ballot Paper. All your protest votes will be mine, all mine I'm going to change my name to 'None of the Above' and get elected on the strength of the 'they're all as bad as each other' brigade.
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sweek0 posted:It's not one or the other at all when it comes to new railway lines. Quite the opposite actually: this will create more capacity for local commuter services along the traditional lines as well. And it will benefit journeys all across the country. I don't think I'll use this line more than once a year but I'm still very much in favour. i would prefer they built an actual mass transit system in the city to the possibility of some more frequent trains to coventry and solihull e: how much time could I save at the polling place by going home and getting my polling card? i predict it would take ~10 minutes to go get it rather than going straight to the polling place from my heavily delayed local birmingham train Phoon fucked around with this message at 18:31 on May 5, 2016 |
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Geokinesis posted:Voted but unfortunately I doubt it will matter much as this area is blue with a marked purple tinge Yeah I feel like my vote was the most minuscule 'gently caress you' possible in a sea of angrily nodding heads. Phoon posted:e: how much time could I save at the polling place by going home and getting my polling card? i predict it would take ~10 minutes to go get it rather than going straight to the polling place from my heavily delayed local birmingham train I don't know if all booths will be the same but I just literally rocked up and gave my name and address. They didn't ask to see a card at any point. stev fucked around with this message at 18:38 on May 5, 2016 |
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Voted. According to twitter labour internal polling is putting them down a 100 council seats. And the London Mayor vote is surprisingly close due to low turnout.
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I like this having two votes business, I got to support Sadiq and honestly tell the extremely attractive Green party canvasser outside Tufnell Park station that her party would be my first choice. The polling station was deserted at 6:15pm though, which is probably a bad sign for turnout.
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Phoon posted:London will see the most benefit - if they wanted to improve the economy of the midlands and north through transport infrastructure improvement they would improve local lines/trains Thanks for this. Ill need to do more reading. As an aside, we had zero green candidates for PCC or councillor here, so its double red all the way and no second preference.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:My business card says "Josef K. Sourdust, Stripping Accountant MA, ACAEW, ACCA"
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May 5, 2016 18:50
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"Donald Trump deserves respect" says Pig Fucker
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Total Meatlove posted:Seeing as this is the Monkey section I think it was probably done in a knowing way, but that gives you one paper slyly nodding towards another that's slyly nodding towards something under injunction so it all gets to be a bit silly buggers. And then us all slyly nodding to it on an internet comedy forum, its glorious.
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Phoon posted:voted for the labour councillor that I got stuck in a lift with once Did they cope well under pressure?
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The usual reminder that the only people who see the ballot papers are the count staff, most of whom are poorly paid local council staff working on a weeknight for a few extra quid. Defacing your ballot with obscenities is a blow against the working class.
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Jedit posted:The usual reminder that the only people who see the ballot papers are the count staff, most of whom are poorly paid local council staff working on a weeknight for a few extra quid. Defacing your ballot with obscenities is a blow against the working class. good thing thats not what i did then
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I threw up a little voting Lib Dem as my second choice for Police Commissioner.
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What if they find the obscenities a welcome and slightly amusing distraction?
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Mister Adequate posted:Alright, seeing as a couple people said they'd like to see it (and then I got massively distracted by Factorio);
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Coohoolin posted:Did they cope well under pressure? not really but shes a nice lady
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Gort posted:I threw up a little voting Lib Dem as my second choice for Police Commissioner. It only just hit me that this is exactly what I did, oh god
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Police and Crime Commissioners are a stupid non-position that shouldn't be an elected office, but nevertheless, they do have powers over local police spending, and it's worth voting for them on that basis to prevent outright nutjobs from getting the position. Edit: - also voted Lib Dem second preference, as it was infinitely preferable to the 'efficiency, efficiency, efficiency' Conservative and the 'murder them all and make more savings' UKIP candidates.
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The only PCC option not affiliated with a party in my area was part of the 'Zero Tolerance Policing' group. I mostly voted because that sounds scary as gently caress and anyone else would be better.
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Seaside Loafer posted:Thanks for that, I sent it to my friend I mentioned. The 'real' Mister Adequate would have had all the bastards involved in this displaced into the 3rd universe down, or maybe he/she/it wouldn't have given a toss, hard to tell with the sublimed isn't it :/ This is the bottommost universe where all the shits live
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I was surprised to see Tommy Sheridan still kicking it with his own party of the Solidarity Movement. That's all I can say. It was also very funny reading on my ballot to pick today the SNP was wedged between the Nazinal Front and the Commiedarity Movement. Hell of a spectrum right there. 
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"but he refuses to retract earlier criticism". So basically he's saying "okay I HAVE to acknowledge he may actually become president but I won't apologise for what I said." So that's the only time I can give the smallest nod to Cameron. The smallest.
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