BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion

[AtomKraft]

Hands up anyone who looks at Krystals' Guardian links.

Anyone?

More drivel from our resident institutionised Marxist.

[Pontius Navigator]

The local elections are probably the only place to get the message across, as this loses them real power, and shows that her assumption that people will take anything instead of Corbyn is wrong.

We have two votes at the impending district election. We have 4 candidates. Only the two main parties are standing. One pair are tit sucking husband and wife, the other pair are a 12 year district man and a parish councillor, so also sucking on the public teat. No real choice or opportunity to kick.

Before we moved we had a county councillor in our ward. What a CV of public service. A farmer, chairman of a board of Governors at one school, on the board of another, hospital trust, etc etc. The list was so long it screamed conflict and time management issues. It seemed only fair to lighten his load, but he still got in.

We also had two husband and wife pairs on the District Council. I wonder if they car shared or each claimed independently. One had a very serious car crash returning from a meeting and was rendered incapable with a brain haemorrhage but bravely soldiered on doing his elected duty and claiming allowances for two years until he died. He never attended a meeting after the crash.

[Pontius Navigator]

AK, p l e e e s e, it was a notice sunny day, door open listening to the birdies tweeting before . . .

[Sisemen]

As someone has said ... it enrages them when they are being ignored.

Surprised that the Guardian doesn't come on roll with 250 perforated sheets.

[Slasher]

The resident marxist is on my Ignore list thus any links he posts aren't seen anyway. Everyone please remember to continue not quoting the ignoree's silly statements as a communal grace to save me and other ignorers from seeing 'em. Ta.

[om15]

I think that we are being teased by K&C, I believe that he has adopted the persona of a half mad Socialist with some form of demented military PTSD in order to provoke lively debate on the forum, I suspect that in reality he lives in a bungalow in Hale Barnes, wears slippers, smokes a pipe and is a member of the local Con Club.

The Gaudian has been the topic of much debate on here, I think that more serious links could be presented from the Beano.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The Beano has sales of 37,000, increasing by 8% annually. The Grauniad has sales of 134,000, decreasing by 7% annually. By 2028, more people could be reading the Beano than the Grauniad

[Sisemen]

And perking up the lives of surviving Ops Normalers when so quoted

[Pontius Navigator]

You mean the Beano I hope.

Om15, a verbose rant is not inducive to reasoned debate.

[Sisemen]

Well, certainly not grauniad

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[AtomKraft]

If got some advice for the Tory party.

Get that Theresa May tae fcuk, as we say in Glasgow!

There'll be no Tory party left if they leave it much longer.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

From the ConservativeHome website comments section this morning:

"With Conservative poll ratings wandering somewhere around the popularity of smallpox, it is not the time to be thinking of an election."

Response:

"In a referendum between smallpox and the Conservatives, I think BetFred would give maybe 5/4."

[4mastacker]

................We have two votes at the impending district election. We have 4 candidates. Only the two main parties are standing. One pair are tit sucking husband and wife, the other pair are a 12 year district man and a parish councillor, so also sucking on the public teat. No real choice or opportunity to kick.............

PN, all the more reason for all ballot papers to include the option "None of the above". Should the "None of.." option gain the most votes, then the candidates listed on that ballot paper should be barred from taking part in a re-run of that ballot.

We are facing the same choice in my district and I've already told one public tit sucking candidate that he can FRO if he thinks he's getting my vote this time round.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

This was standard at my University, and worked well. Vote for RON! (Re-Open Nominations)
We also had STV, and RON would win about 5% of ballots for the University Student Officers. It worked very well for Student Union Treasurer one year, where no one trusted any of the first round candidates, and somewhat shy but subsequently highly effective person was elected in the second ballot.

[Pontius Navigator]

4mastaker, SKDC?

Trouble is, without NOTA you cannot vote against a candidate.

[G-CPTN]

We are being invited to vote for a regional mayor (which nobody voted for, just as we didn't want to be part of a unitary authority, but we got that anyway).
I am tempted not to vote, but I feel strongly that I don't want any of the party candidates that I might just vote for one of the independents.

[4mastacker]

PN

Yes. One of the candidates is an ex-RAF radio fitter and as chairman of the Licensing and the Alcohol, Entertainment and Late Night Refreshment Licensing committees, is responsible for appalling state of our town centre where kebab shops, pizza place's, cafe's and cheap booze shops abound. He's the original 'Mr-nothing-to-do-with-me' if you try to raise a problem with him. The lady candidate with the white hair is streets ahead of him when it comes to getting involved and tackling problems.

[Pontius Navigator]

We only had polling info for Mutt and Jeff, nothing from Ron and Mildred.

[G-CPTN]

We have been sent a booklet with spiels from all of the mayoral candidates.
Each claims what they will do - all different.
Nowhere does it state why we need a regional mayor - it was a requirement of 'being granted' a regional entity.

[Pontius Navigator]

I think we have a vote for NHS Trusts Executives too.