Olddog wrote:We decided long time ago than postal voting was too easy to abuse, same for internet voting today. We use proxy voting if needed.
Sorry, who is "we" in this context?
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Olddog wrote:We decided long time ago than postal voting was too easy to abuse, same for internet voting today. We use proxy voting if needed.
scbriml wrote:Olddog wrote:We decided long time ago than postal voting was too easy to abuse, same for internet voting today. We use proxy voting if needed.
Sorry, who is "we" in this context?
Olddog wrote:Exactly. There was a huge debate theses years about internet voting, and for now it was decided it was not safe enough.
KLDC10 wrote:So it seems like the UK is saturated with polling stations - it must take a tremendous level of disinterest/laziness to avoid them all!
moo wrote:In general, you don't avoid them - you can't simply go to any polling station in the UK and exercise your right to vote on election day, you are allocated a specific polling station in your district where you can vote.
It was the biggest quarterly decline since the first quarter of 2010, and is likely to reinforce the view among many economists that household spending - the main driver of the economy - is now slowing sharply
LittleFokker wrote:Hypothetically speaking, let's say this election backfires on Theresa May and the conservatives lose their majority to the Lib Dems (or another party that was against Brexit). What would that mean for the negotiations with the EU? Can the Article 50 trigger be rescinded? Could the UK extend the negotiation period beyond 2 years? If Le Pen becomes French president, would the EU be more likely to work with the UK on retaining membership?
scbriml wrote:Olddog wrote:Exactly. There was a huge debate theses years about internet voting, and for now it was decided it was not safe enough.
Anyone in the UK can apply for a postal vote. My wife and I shall be because we'll be out of the country on the day of the election.
LittleFokker wrote:Can the Article 50 trigger be rescinded? Could the UK extend the negotiation period beyond 2 years? If Le Pen becomes French president, would the EU be more likely to work with the UK on retaining membership?
Aesma wrote:I must say the fact the Tories are so high in the polls is very surprising. Are so many people living so well they want to continue the same policies ? If so, why did Brexit pass ? There is a logical disconnect.
scbriml wrote:Labour is a joke with a leader who is wanting to take us back to the late 1970s (I lived and worked through that and have no desire to go back there!)
Aesma wrote:I'm sorry but Brexit is not a set of policies. Especially when May wasn't even in favor herself.
Olddog wrote:You did not like the "Life on Mars" tv show?
Aesma wrote:Especially when May wasn't even in favor herself.
KLDC10 wrote:Didn't some people come up with the nickname 'The Submarine' for her, on account of her disappearing almost completely into the background during the referendum campaign?
Aesma wrote:I sure hope the campaign will force her (and other candidates of course) to tell what she wants to do, exactly.
A Labour government would seek to create four new UK-wide bank holidays, Jeremy Corbyn says.
The holidays would be on each nation's patron saint day - St David's Day on 1 March, St Patrick's Day on 17 March, St George's Day on 23 April and St Andrew's Day on 30 November.
Mr Corbyn believes the move will "celebrate the national cultures of our proud nations".
Arion640 wrote:Well Jeremy seems to be a bit of a closet commy.
Arion640 wrote:Although I do hope the SNP lose some of there seats as Nicola kept moaning TM was unelected.
KLDC10 wrote:Aesma wrote:I'm sorry but Brexit is not a set of policies. Especially when May wasn't even in favor herself.
It seems like she was lukewarm at best in her support of 'Remain'. Didn't some people come up with the nickname 'The Submarine' for her, on account of her disappearing almost completely into the background during the referendum campaign? Clearly she doesn't have any problem implementing Brexit, and that is the sign of a good politician - she has committed herself to delivering what the British people chose.
11725Flyer wrote:Latest headline:
Conservatives open up biggest lead over Labour in nine years, new poll shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... poll-shows.
My guess is Corbyn will have to step down once he leads Labour into near obscurity.
Dano1977 wrote:11725Flyer wrote:Latest headline:
Conservatives open up biggest lead over Labour in nine years, new poll shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... poll-shows.
My guess is Corbyn will have to step down once he leads Labour into near obscurity.
I don't think he will.
I believe he will continue bumbling along still in the belief that he won 2 labour party leadership elections, and that he is the chosen one.
The real power is with the "Unite" union, Labours biggest monetary donor. Figures show that Unite gave Labour just under £19million (2015 figures).
The Union has just re-elected its leader Len McCluskey (12% turnout), and he wants labour to continue in the direction it's headed in. At the last general election Mr McCluskey cited that Labour lost because "because it was insufficiently left-wing".
I think that the labour party will split after the election, with Corbyns lot headed in the hard left wing direction, and the others more of Tony Blair based policitics i.e. "Conservative Lite"
For the record - I'm a UNITE union member, I ticked the box so my monthly subscriptions does not go to political causes, nor did I take part in the union leadership election.
Dano1977 wrote:11725Flyer wrote:Latest headline:
Conservatives open up biggest lead over Labour in nine years, new poll shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... poll-shows.
My guess is Corbyn will have to step down once he leads Labour into near obscurity.
I don't think he will.
I believe he will continue bumbling along still in the belief that he won 2 labour party leadership elections, and that he is the chosen one.
The real power is with the "Unite" union, Labours biggest monetary donor. Figures show that Unite gave Labour just under £19million (2015 figures).
The Union has just re-elected its leader Len McCluskey (12% turnout), and he wants labour to continue in the direction it's headed in. At the last general election Mr McCluskey cited that Labour lost because "because it was insufficiently left-wing".
I think that the labour party will split after the election, with Corbyns lot headed in the hard left wing direction, and the others more of Tony Blair based policitics i.e. "Conservative Lite"
For the record - I'm a UNITE union member, I ticked the box so my monthly subscriptions does not go to political causes, nor did I take part in the union leadership election.
GDB wrote:(Len has stated how 'proud' he was to have taken part in the 1978/79 'Winter Of Discontent', the series of strikes which brought down the most pro union PM the UK had ever, will ever have. And brought in Maggie Thatcher. Len is too thick to see what part he played in that).
GDB wrote:Dano1977 wrote:11725Flyer wrote:Latest headline:
Conservatives open up biggest lead over Labour in nine years, new poll shows
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... poll-shows.
My guess is Corbyn will have to step down once he leads Labour into near obscurity.
I don't think he will.
I believe he will continue bumbling along still in the belief that he won 2 labour party leadership elections, and that he is the chosen one.
The real power is with the "Unite" union, Labours biggest monetary donor. Figures show that Unite gave Labour just under £19million (2015 figures).
The Union has just re-elected its leader Len McCluskey (12% turnout), and he wants labour to continue in the direction it's headed in. At the last general election Mr McCluskey cited that Labour lost because "because it was insufficiently left-wing".
I think that the labour party will split after the election, with Corbyns lot headed in the hard left wing direction, and the others more of Tony Blair based policitics i.e. "Conservative Lite"
For the record - I'm a UNITE union member, I ticked the box so my monthly subscriptions does not go to political causes, nor did I take part in the union leadership election.
If you can, join another union. Quite a few at BA did. Me, I was never in Unite or it's predecessors. I do have one of their buildings, logo included, at the top of my road.
I would say 'you should have voted' but Comrade Len likely would have fixed it, as his actions since 'winning' show. Happy that your Union subs have gone towards a £417,000 grace and favour pad in a fashionable part of London for Len?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-far-left
(Len has stated how 'proud' he was to have taken part in the 1978/79 'Winter Of Discontent', the series of strikes which brought down the most pro union PM the UK had ever, will ever have. And brought in Maggie Thatcher. Len is too thick to see what part he played in that).