May 2019
6:44am, 23 May 2019
638 posts
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Roberto
When I read the leaflets, or listen to the candidates speak, if they start talking about other candidates and parties, I switch off and wont vote for them. I want to know what they and their party will do. I dont mind if they mention another partys perceived failings but then talk about what they would do to fix it but usually they dont do that.
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May 2019
7:14am, 23 May 2019
2,532 posts
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Raemond
I sent my postal vote back the other week, but Sam's ballot never arrived - same for many of my British colleagues in Brussels. I doubt it'll be a statistically significant number in total, but I gather lots of brits overseas have been disenfranchised this time 
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May 2019
7:16am, 23 May 2019
7,571 posts
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larkim
Despite my overall reservations, I seem to be the only household locally with a labour party flag in the garden or a poster up somewhere. And there were loads for the local elections.
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May 2019
7:23am, 23 May 2019
6,747 posts
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Too Much Water
Raised a slight chuckle at fozzy’s unwitting carbon footprint. My main takeaway this week is that it’s ok to throw things at people you disagree with, in particular it shows your argument is stronger and more just. Perhaps a politics meet-up is needed, does anyone have a dairy which is free? |
May 2019
7:31am, 23 May 2019
9,761 posts
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mrs shanksi
We've received all the leaflets including a brexit party one in Aberdeenshire so they are standing in Scotland. All have been recycled.
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May 2019
7:32am, 23 May 2019
2,150 posts
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Fellrunning
That wasn't my take on it at all - but there you go. I was left idly wondering about that BBC clip of the woman heckling the MP that got posted. I wonder - had it been Farage getting heckled - how long it would have lasted before the heckler was bundled away by his henchmen and/or the police. Amounts to the same thing I guess. Authoritarianism brooks no argument "full force of the law" and all that... |
May 2019
7:35am, 23 May 2019
36,822 posts
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Diogenes
May's letter to Leadsom maintains the massive falsehood at the heart of the 2016 Ref argument: "We will stop sending vast sums of taxpayers' money to the EU"...etc She still maintains the lie that this is some kind of gift without return. CBI analysis shows that the net benefit of EU membership is in the order of GBP62-78bn. So we contribute around GBP13bn per year, for which we gain in the region of GBP75-91bn. |
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May 2019
7:40am, 23 May 2019
6,748 posts
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Too Much Water
I did see a clip of Jess Phillips asking for the Birmingham school primary school kids not to have to walk directly past a protest which must be quite intimidating. No milkshakes yet but the protestor was happy enough to talk over and not let the MP speak which I didn’t think was right. The atmosphere for the kids must be a bit like that of Holy Cross protests a few years ago in Northern Ireland. |
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May 2019
7:41am, 23 May 2019
6,749 posts
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Too Much Water
Do people read the leaflets before recycling / returning?
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May 2019
7:41am, 23 May 2019
4,461 posts
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jda
I never managed a postal vote in over a decade of living abroad. The system simply isn't fit for purpose.
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