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Turns out my local green candidate is "an active trade unionist" and has said there will be no environmental justice without social and economic justice so that tipped the balance for me, I'll vote for him.
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:36 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 19:50 |
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Pinched my nose and voted Labour because the only other candidate was for the Green party and I could find absolutely nothing about him. Barely anyone going in or out of the polling station.
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:44 |
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RobbZombae posted:Hope not, Binface is a centrist wank endeavor. Couldn't help sneaking in chat that Corbyn was an anti-semite in an interview, minutes after talking about joking with BORIS in the Latin language. Although I would love to see the communists get a seat, that would be rad.
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:52 |
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Just voted Labour because I know the candidate and he's a good egg. We were out together canvassing for the local elections a few years ago. The thing is, I'm going to be moving in a few moths so I really don't see me voting for kieth again as it would have been a spoiled ballot if I didn't know the candidate.
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:54 |
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forkboy84 posted:Echoing what Jedit said. If you support independence, vote SNP on the first ballot & Green on the second. The only exception is if you live in South of Scotland. The SNP currently have 4 MSPs from the second ballot, despite receiving more than twice the votes of the next party in 2016. 3 of those MSPs are South of Scotland, 1 Highland. Which basically means about 900,000 SNP votes were wasted, which only benefits the Tories. Welp, turns out i technically live in the northern part of southern Scotland. So we need to do our part to keep the bastards out.
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:57 |
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Voted a mix of Labour and Green with the only objective of boosting whoever was most likely to beat the tory candidate Voted no on a local referendum because after about half an hour of Googling I still had no idea what they were attempting to accomplish, who was attempting to accomplish it, and why
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:58 |
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il_cornuto posted:Turns out my local green candidate is "an active trade unionist" and has said there will be no environmental justice without social and economic justice so that tipped the balance for me, I'll vote for him. Congrats on having the only good candidate apparently
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:21 |
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Imagine Keith in this situation. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1390336734697828362
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:33 |
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Voted SNP constituency, Green list. Hopefully my predecessor at work will get a seat (Co-leader of the greens, she's been representing them in the debates.) Couldn't vote Labour up here as Starmer is awful, and it's come out that a friend was abused by the son of a very prominent Scotlab figure. This abuse was then covered up by the local party (including her mum and stepdad, also a prominent figure at one time). And I got a free pencil.
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:42 |
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Voted for the Greens as a sort of weak protest vote. The Red Tories, the Yellow Tories and the Tories can gently caress off
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:43 |
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Voted Plaid in the local, Communist in the regional. If you're giving the middle finger to the establishment, you may as well go big or go home. Plus, it was childishly funny. Not many names crossed off the list by 6.30pm. I'm in a rural area where the result is a foregone conclusion. I've seen virtually no campaigning, and very few people seem bothered about the whole thing.
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:51 |
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So I went and voted. But only because I wanted a picture of my puppy outside with the polling sign
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:52 |
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Labour are really focused on GOTV here, we had multiple leaflets through the door and one of the (not up for election) councillors door knocking an hour ago to ask if we'd voted.
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# ? May 6, 2021 18:55 |
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Mega Comrade posted:So I went and voted. But only because I wanted a picture of my puppy outside with the polling sign Condolences on not getting the picture (which I assume is the case as otherwise you would have posted it, as the thread would rightly demand)
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:03 |
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keep punching joe posted:Imagine Keith in this situation. Listen you're not going to win over Red Wall voters by condescending to their views like this
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:13 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Condolences on not getting the picture (which I assume is the case as otherwise you would have posted it, as the thread would rightly demand) You're right that was inconsiderate of me. That's the only one I got where she wasn't a blur. She's only 14 weeks so gets incredibly excited at the sight of anyone new to meet. Needless to say she was very popular.
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:15 |
Mega Comrade posted:You're right that was inconsiderate of me.
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:18 |
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Dawwwww
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:22 |
MikeCrotch posted:Lol if you live outside Nottingham this might have been me It might have been! Do you have dark hair? I couldn't see the face because of the mask. Possibly seeing a real live goon is more exciting than the election.
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:22 |
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I actually found a dog yesterday. Well, I suppose a 100 people found it, but I was the only one bothered enough to take it home. It ran across a street in north london while i was getting donuts, and milled about in a park being watched by everyone for about 10 mins. I then spent the afternoon trying to have Big Important Meetings while this dog ran around the kitchen whimpering. Got it to a vet in the evening and they found a chip and called the owners who had been desperately searching the nearby park (different park) for it. that was my Good Deed for the week (yes it had a jacket but no tag)
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:26 |
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keep punching joe posted:lmao Only just got around to this but lmao at that finale.
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:42 |
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Mega Comrade posted:So I went and voted. But only because I wanted a picture of my puppy outside with the polling sign Sadly I couldn’t take my dog to the polling station because she’s just been spayed and shouldn’t be leaving the house. Next time though!
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:43 |
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I'm going to have to ask you to pet that dog for me, please. https://i.imgur.com/4zUGUS1.mp4
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:45 |
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Wait, who's turning Scotland into a socialist republic and how can we help?
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:47 |
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We only had a PCC election down by me and the polling stations were spread out every half a mile, but there wasn't even 2 sides of an A4 sheet of voting cards given out.
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:48 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm actually genuinely glad to hear this, you peeps have been a huge source of entertainment and info over lockdown and deserve to get paid for what you do. You’re too kind, thank you Went down to vote and in true form I scrawled a big shitpost on my constituency ballot (don’t worry jedit, it was nothing phallic or overtly offensive) and voted green on the list. Not happy about voting for a pro Indy party while the SNP are still going to be the lib cunts that enact any kind of process towards it, but it’s worth it for their policy platform and I really don’t want the SNP squeaking a majority and making the green vote pointless in the first place. Guavanaut posted:Wait, who's turning Scotland into a socialist republic and how can we help? Nobody unfortunately, don’t believe the lies
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# ? May 6, 2021 19:57 |
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Soylent Yellow posted:Voted Plaid in the local, Communist in the regional. If you're giving the middle finger to the establishment, you may as well go big or go home. Plus, it was childishly funny. Gonna be funny if the Communist gets in to the regional with the votes of us pissed off lefties - that's what I voted (and why) for the regional ed: I thought Jayda Fransen was in jail? (I mean obviously she's not if she's yelling at Stugeron). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:01 on May 6, 2021 |
# ? May 6, 2021 19:58 |
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I was really struggling to care about voting...in the end I was so motivated to exercise my essential rights and partake in our great nation's democracy that I went and voted because I was out doing something else and was driving right past the polling station. Such a depressing contrast to the last few times I'd been there. I spoiled my ballot for Police & Crime Commissioner because there were literally no good options. I voted Green in the council - a quick google/twitter search in the car before going in showed that the Labour candidate isn't an obvious shithead but it wasn't conclusive and I really didn't want to give the impression of endorsing Starmer. I voted Lab then Lib for our mayoral election because there were only three candidates and I felt I should at least try and help make it not a total walkover for the Conservatives.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:03 |
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Fantastic stuff here
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:07 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Gonna be funny if the Communist gets in to the regional with the votes of us pissed off lefties - that's what I voted (and why) for the regional Fun fact - I live in the only place in the country to have elected both a Communist Party councilor *and* a BNP one (albeit more than half a century apart). Millwall really is a land of contrasts.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:16 |
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Party Boat posted:Labour are really focused on GOTV here, we had multiple leaflets through the door and one of the (not up for election) councillors door knocking an hour ago to ask if we'd voted. I had a gang of them actually knock on my door half an hour ago. Told them I'd already voted and snarled that I wouldn't vote for Starmer if they paid me when they said they hoped it was for Labour. I feel a bit ashamed now; it must be a hapless job treading the pavements for that copsucking void.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:18 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Gonna be funny if the Communist gets in to the regional with the votes of us pissed off lefties - that's what I voted (and why) for the regional Oh that's who she is, I was wondering why some London wank was verbally abusing Sturgeon. Apparently she was released in early 2019.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:21 |
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Speaking of dogs (as we were) the BBC has the important election news.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:24 |
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Gats Akimbo posted:copsucking Lol
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:26 |
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Gats Akimbo posted:I had a gang of them actually knock on my door half an hour ago. Told them I'd already voted and snarled that I wouldn't vote for Starmer if they paid me when they said they hoped it was for Labour. I feel a bit ashamed now; it must be a hapless job treading the pavements for that copsucking void. I wonder if this will be as gleefully reported on as the people who hated corbyn was?
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:30 |
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serious gaylord posted:I wonder if this will be as gleefully reported on as the people who hated corbyn was? It didn't happen entirely in the head of someone writing a tweet in between submitting expense claims, so no.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:31 |
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:41 |
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PCC elections feel heavily redundant when they've been completely incorporated into broader party politics, ensuring the range of policies on offer are three variations of 'More Cops'.
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# ? May 6, 2021 20:51 |
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Yes, but two of the PCC candidates in my area range from fash (Tory lady whomst loves to Racism) and turbo fash (some Britain First knock-off party despite clearly being Italian)
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# ? May 6, 2021 21:03 |
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Flayer posted:Who gives a poo poo, it's a protest vote. "I was doing it for the memes!" they say, as their soul is dragged to hell.
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