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Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 10:35:37 AM   
RealityLicks


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Status: offline 		All UK residents and ex-pats, have you remembered to cast your votes yet?  Care to share with us who got the nod from you?

I went for Red Ken, as you'd have guessed, with Sian Berry (Green Party) as my second choice for London Mayor;  Labour for both London Assembly and city-wide rep.

I also got stuck behind the Respect Party battle bus, crawling all the way through Wood Green Shopping City this afternoon.  They had George Galloway on board, soul singers, DJs etc. all regaling the public from the top deck.

You have until 10pm.  Don't forget to do your thing.
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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 10:56:35 AM   
LondonArt


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Status: offline 		As long as Livingstone doesn't get it, I'll be happy. Well, unless by some miracle the BNP get it. Even Ken is better than those twats.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 10:57:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good call RL! (the thread, not the vote)

I shall be voting shortly, then off to band practice - and then off to the count as an observer; basically its my job to make sure the counters allocate the papers to the right pile. Its tremendous fun......... not!

The main job on my hands though, will be not clocking the stuck up, born to rule Tories that will be hanging about.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 11:04:44 AM   
RealityLicks


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Status: offline 		The count looks like it'll be quite lengthy over here, hope it's not so bad at your end, LE.

I went to a hustings this week and found the urge to run down to the podium and knock Boris fuckin Johnson sparko almost irresistible.  The baying Chelsea wankers around me couldn't get enough of his weak jokes and were virtually celebrating already.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 11:18:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Usually done and dusted between midnight and 1am here - but then there's usually a low turnout and we dont have anywhere near the number of voters in the first place I should think.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 11:33:57 AM   
RealityLicks


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LondonArt - if the turnout is low, it gives the BNP more chance of gaining a seat on the Assembly.  Proportional representation means the small number of votes they can count on become a larger proportion of the total vote.  So even though their chances are slight, it's worth going along and voting for someone else, if you want them totally out of the running.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 11:37:00 AM   
LadyEllen


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Status: offline 		Our count happens at the leisure centre RL - in the large hall thats used for two five a side football matches at a time, and the local concert arena; its soulless and most unsuitable for a party!

However, if we manage to beat Health Concern (the party that isnt a party TM) and the Tories, there will be a party of sorts at least!

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edited to add; LondonArt - please go out and vote? You have PR so you can almost just as much choose who to vote out as in! I dont care whom you vote for, as long as its not the BNP or the Tories!

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 11:39:53 AM   
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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks

LondonArt - if the turnout is low, it gives the BNP more chance of gaining a seat on the Assembly.  Proportional representation means the small number of votes they can count on become a larger proportion of the total vote.  So even though their chances are slight, it's worth going along and voting for someone else, if you want them totally out of the running.


I have voted, I'm not the sort to complain about political parties without actually contributing to the system.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 11:49:19 AM   
RealityLicks


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Status: offline 		Cool, LA.  Here's hoping they lose every deposit they've shelled out for today.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:04:21 PM   
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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:06:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I cant vote... didnt register, couldnt at the time. But hoping BNP goes nowhere! I need to sort my political head out...

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:36:05 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Vote Tory, we dont want to vote for a party that illegally took us to war, used billions of our money to bail out rich bankers, cut income tax for the poorest and are close friends of Murdoch. Do we !


As if Ken could be called "pro-war"!

And if you hadn't noticed PS53, the Murdoch papers are all pro-Boris.

Don't vote Tory.  Boris is a racist, sexist, homophobic twat.

Boris on Clause 28 in 2000:
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"The essence of that Tory case is unchanged ... it is more sensitive to spare parents' anxieties than to allow leftwing local authorities to waste taxpayers' money on idiotic and irrelevant homosexual instruction."


on gay civil unions:
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'If gay marriage was OK - and I was uncertain on the issue - then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.'


Politesub, Boris described Portsmouth as "one of the most depressed towns in Southern England ... too full of drugs, obesity, under-achievement." (BBC, April 2007)

Police: Boris wants big savings - so fewer of 10,000 extra uniformed officers who have been put on streets will actually be out on the beat.


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ORIGINAL:  Simon Heffer, The Telegraph

One of Mr Johnson's failings is a belief that the public is there to serve him, not vice versa.  He is pushy, he is thoughtless, he is indiscreet about his private life.


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ORIGINAL: Peregrine Worsthorne, Apr 30
The harder [Johnson] tried, the more insincere, incoherent, evasive and even puerile he looked and sounded, even enabling the liberal candidate to score points. Take away the gags and jokes and nothing much is left.


Speaking as a Londoner, I'd no more vote Tory than I would superglue my bollocks to a runaway gnu.


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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:43:19 PM   
RealityLicks


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Status: offline 		spinninsweetness - you can take proof of address and identity to the polling station and ask the officials or even one of the party rep's to help you sort out getting on the list.  It's easier than you think.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:43:43 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks

Speaking as a Londoner, I'd no more vote Tory than I would superglue my bollocks to a runaway gnu.



The Queen of compound adverbs salutes the King of absurd analogies  .

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:45:12 PM   
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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:47:06 PM   
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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:47:42 PM   
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Truble is they are gonna tek us all down with 'em

Homosexuals can do what they like in private as far as I'm concerned, why they need special tax arrangements  to do it I cant fathom. Can you ?

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:48:20 PM   
RealityLicks


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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 12:50:53 PM   
kittinSol


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Status: offline 		Licks! It's shockering, what's happening to you?! You're getting all domly over this. It's fucking terrifying. Stop it, this instant.

My vote is with you: I hope the toff with the revolting mop chokes on his next sausage and mash dinner.

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RE: Polling Day in the UK - 5/1/2008 2:03:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Vote Tory, we dont want to vote for a party that illegally took us to war, used billions of our money to bail out rich bankers, cut income tax for the poorest and are close friends of Murdoch. Do we !


..sod that, vote Plaid

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