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Just been prowling the tinterweb and noticed that my old hippy English teacher and form tutor is the liberal candidate for my old hometown of Birkenhead. He is the dude that introduced me to Leonard Cohen. Sound bloke, can't see him displacing Frank Field in Jerkinbed though.
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I will vote in September (in Germany) ;)
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f**king hell! Avoided looking at the election results all day, then caved. What a surprise!
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You did! Why thank you! :D :D :D

The only downside that you may discover how big loons the DUP actually are. Our lot over here were sadly predictable. :urff:
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Tories climbing into bed with the DUP makes the accusations of "terrorist sympathiser" thrown at Corbyn look a bit hollow.
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There must be some Tory think tank getting paid huge amounts of dosh to come up with ideas like :-

"What you need is a referendum it will reinforce the UKs commitment to the EU and silence Ukip"

"Have an election now whilst the opposition are on the back foot and you are so popular it will give you another 5 years in power and an even bigger majority"

I wonder if there are any vacancies?
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Dan wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Belgians have no choice, we still have a compulsory vote system :)

IZ.
That's actually not a bad idea. In the UK in recent times the results are always really close, like 52/48. That's really poor. If you take into account that a lot of people didn't vote at all it means that 30-ish percent of the country had the casting vote, and that's pisspoor. France's result was good: 66/34. I'm not sure we've ever had such a decisive result in the UK, not in recent times anyway.
I always thought that voting is right, to say more freedom. Therefore excersing your freedom and right under will it's self-contradictory.

And i'm from country where seeing over 55% of voters vote is as possible as seeing invisible pink pegasus playing on banjo.
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I'm in the UK. I think voting should be compulsory but there should be a "none of the above" box
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Yeah, i'd have to say you can't have compulsary voting unless you include an abstain option box!

At least turnout is higher this year at around 69% with a massive increase in the 18-24 year old vote.

On another note, i've just heard Paul Nuttall has resigned from UKIP, does this mean yet another return for Farage - in, out, in, out, shake it all about :roll:
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Wait til you get a load of the DUP. Even worse that UKIP. Hate gay people, abortion, half of them don't believe the dinosaurs existed... :evil:
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I heard that may glued herself to the chair and they cannot safely remove her :roll:

*Edit- What is DUP ?
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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DUP = Democratic Unionist Party - a bunch of hard-right religious nutjobs from Northern Ireland.
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iesus wrote:I heard that may glued herself to the chair and they cannot safely remove her :roll:

*Edit- What is DUP ?
The DUP are the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland. They are extreme religious right wing. One example:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... win-courts

Normally England pays no attention to them. Now they will.
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abridged wrote:
iesus wrote:I heard that may glued herself to the chair and they cannot safely remove her :roll:

*Edit- What is DUP ?
The DUP are the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland. They are extreme religious right wing. One example:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... win-courts

Normally England pays no attention to them. Now they will.
Yes, its odd, Northern Ireland politics largely ignored over here unless it's something IRA related.
All through the campaign, Welsh and Scottish parties all over the news and featured heavily in debates and yet as usual not a mention of Northern Ireland!
I wonder how May will try to 'market' them to us!
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Charlie wrote: Yes, its odd, Northern Ireland politics largely ignored over here unless it's something IRA related.
All through the campaign, Welsh and Scottish parties all over the news and featured heavily in debates and yet as usual not a mention of Northern Ireland!
I wonder how May will try to 'market' them to us!
She's got to market them to queen Elizardbeth first
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Oh FFS even worse than I imagined. Fecking creationists? :evil:
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Oh FFS even worse than I imagined. Fecking creationists? :evil:
Oh and Line dancing is evil (which might be true); Global warming is a fraud, the Pope is the Anti-Christ and the earth is 6,000 years old. You're going to have fun...
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markfiend wrote:
Oh FFS even worse than I imagined. Fecking creationists? :evil:
Do they have relations to the William of Orange Fan Club that stuck back in 1690's ? :urff:
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I'm doing a little project on some local women who were charged with witchcraft and killed a few hundred years ago. There was talk about a sign or plaque to commemorate them. The DUP opposed it because..'.they might have been guilty'. Also they managed to 'lose' 100s of millions on a heating scheme...
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abridged wrote:The DUP opposed it because..'.they might have been guilty'.
Of witchcraft?

Bloody hell...
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The idiocy of the brexit vote continues to play havoc across this country (meaning the whole UK, not just little England). I still look forward to a reorganisation of our politics and a new progressive pro-Europe choice. But that's my inner liberal dreamer peeking through the smog again. More chaos awaits folks
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It doesn't look good for this heretic forum then...

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Swinnow wrote:The idiocy of the brexit vote continues to play havoc across this country (meaning the whole UK, not just little England). I still look forward to a reorganisation of our politics and a new progressive pro-Europe choice. But that's my inner liberal dreamer peeking through the smog again. More chaos awaits folks

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Time to dig out this chestnut
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