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... aaaand he's resigned.
Britain - The Official Thread
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I have a friend who's "on the inside" so to speak, so I found out last week before it went public that he'd been suspended.
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I'd just like to point out to the OP that making voted visible only after voting is probably going to get a whole lot of people not living in the UK to vote for something random so they can see what the votes are, skewing what the vote tallies should be.
Good luck with the vote Britain. Here's to hoping you guys can get a shining beacon of hope.
Good luck with the vote Britain. Here's to hoping you guys can get a shining beacon of hope.
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It's not the original thread poster - the thread started in 2012 and the poll is for the elections that happened in May 2019... and also the poll is for the European Parliament elections that happened in May, not the General Election in December.
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There isn't one. Nobody is standing for anything that would rectify the root cause of any of our issues.
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Some of us are people not living in the UK but eligible to vote. I formally submitted by foreign postal vote application today.
HenrySwanson
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No point voting for me as the constituency has been labour since its inception in the eighties
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My constituency has been Tory since the war, and before that, we had the speaker of the house for a bit.... I've never voted Conservative in my life, but I still think it's important to vote.
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Boris gerrymandered my town out of his true-blue Tory constituency and into the staunch Labour stronghold next door. I'm still happy to vote Lib Dem though. Why vote for a party you don't support, just because they're more likely to win?
Meanwhile, he's rejected a pact with the Brexit Party.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50264395
Meanwhile, he's rejected a pact with the Brexit Party.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50264395
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HenrySwanson
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I used to think that, even going so far as to have a vote by proxy arranged for the 2017 election (in which I, or rather someone on my behalf spoiled the ballot) but now I think after reading about the First Past the Post system, what is the point....
I'm wondering if this is a good move. I largely think it is because I feel the BP are becoming irrelevant and now we know Farage isn't standing I see them only sinking further in the polls. But then again how reliable are polls.
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Well... you could always hope enough other people vote for the Liberal Democrats, and that they uphold their policy to get rid of FPTP.
HenrySwanson
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I think hoping for a different outcome in safe seats is pretty similar to that well known definition of insanity.
Also doesn't help that the last time I voted Lib Dem is just before I went to Uni and was charged 9 grand a year for the experience....
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Well, not voting and hoping for a different outcome is maybe a little insane, for sure.
That's unfortunate. You should just let the Tories get on with it then since they had no role in the tuition fees debacle...
... oh wait ...
I mean I get it, that's a legitimate grievance, especially as Swinson voted for the increase... but it still represents the best option if you genuinely want to see change. Look at it this way, if you live in Safe seat area, you won't be helping to get the dirty lyin' liberals in power anyway, but when the papers, and the analysts and the pollsters and the news channels get talking about the results, your vote will at least be noticed as one that wanted something different to the feckless two party front runners. Yes, you could spoil your ballot paper again, but since it's not yet a legit NOTA vote, I don't think it sends the same message personally.
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Ironic that their business premises are next to two businesses particularly reliant on EU import agreements. And "The Color Company" just down street... bet they don't go in there.
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Nigel Farage has announced that the Brexit Party will not stand in constituencies won by the Conservatives in 2017.
In what appears to be a major concession that could ensure that the Brexit vote is not split, the Brexit Party will instead focus on Labour-held seats.
In what appears to be a major concession that could ensure that the Brexit vote is not split, the Brexit Party will instead focus on Labour-held seats.
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Did anyone hear that? I think it was everyone at Millbank collectively experiencing their morning "movement".
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So Nigel, tell us again how bad Boris's deal is...
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And yet the Conservatives, with their minority, need to actively take seats away from Labour. I don't see how BXP splitting the Tory vote in seats they need to win is in any way helpful.
That said, the links between BXP and the Conservative Party are now crystallised, liquid diamond clear and obvious.
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It's helpful insomuch as the Brexit Party won't split the Tory Leave vote, but it will likely pick up some seats that the Tories could have used. That said, I think Labour Leave voters disillusioned with Labour's car crash of a Brexit policy are more likely to switch to BXP than to vote Tory anyway, so I guess it will impact on Labour much more heavily than the Conservatives. I reckon Farage is hoping that the BXP become the new King Makers - or at least will have enough MPs to ensure Johnson pursues a harder form of Brexit.
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..If they had got Rory Bremner to do the voices (Johnson is pretty close, but Corbyn is way off) then those videos would be scary...
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Labour have announced a plan to supply everyone in the UK with free broadband, by part-nationalising BT and taxing tech companies in order to pay for it...
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I applaud the idea (bits of it) but I'm not sure that nationalised internet could (or should) be a thing. It would also require a revamping of the tax system to make sure that the major players are paying more tax - at the moment they're not doing anything illegal by paying so little tax. In any new tax system I'm sure the big companies would find new methods to reach the same result very quickly. I don't see that Labour have brought any sensible ideas with this. Presumably they'll also have to roll out BT services to places that don't already have them? Mental.
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To me that sounds partially like our not-nationalised railways. Providing an internet service will still be in the private sector but the infrastructure carrying it will be part of the nationalised BT; it's nationalised access to the internet, not nationalised internet itself.
Much like how all of our railway infrastructure (stations, tracks, signals) is in government hands but the actual railway services are done by private companies. Badly.
Much like how all of our railway infrastructure (stations, tracks, signals) is in government hands but the actual railway services are done by private companies. Badly.
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