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Unable to organise an Election in a Democracy
Generali
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Hundreds disenfranchised in Sheffield and Hackney apparently. Hundreds of postal ballots gone missing in York. This could get messy.
Just what the country doesn't need in the middle of a Sovereign Debt crisis.
Just what the country doesn't need in the middle of a Sovereign Debt crisis.
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Polls did open at 7am........0
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Thrugelmir wrote: »Polls did open at 7am........
According to the Returning Officer in Sheffield on the BBC, if you turn up before 10pm they should let you vote.
In the immortal words of football fans across the UK, "You don't know what you're doing"0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Polls did open at 7am........
I see Mandleslime is already trying to spin this. Claiming that the voting c0ck up will affect Labour more as Labour voters tend to vote late on. I'm calling complete BS on that one.0 -
Paxman was grilling a Labour politician earlier who said it wasn't their fault, ugh, who has been in charge of the electoral commission for the past 13 years! Big problem with all these quangos is that politicians think they can just shift responsibility to an unaccountable organisation.
Agree many voters probably shouldn't have decided to watch Corrie and HIGNFY before going to vote but this doesn't explain a lack of voting papers nor long queues that were forming much earlier.Thrugelmir wrote: »Polls did open at 7am........"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0 -
Just what the country doesn't need in the middle of a Sovereign Debt crisis.
Not our debt.....
And the president of the ECB stated clearly today that allowing Greece to default was "not an option".
If Merkel doesn't get off the fence, watch for the ECB engaging in their very own QE equivalent to buy PIIGS gilts directly.
I've told you already, the contagion will not be allowed to spread.;)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »If Merkel doesn't get off the fence, watch for the ECB engaging in their very own QE equivalent to buy PIIGS gilts directly.
I've told you already, the contagion will not be allowed to spread.;)
They can't do that, because law prohibits its from doing so. Germans don't like money printing and all that...0 -
Agree many voters probably shouldn't have decided to watch Corrie and HIGNFY before going to vote but this doesn't explain a lack of voting papers nor long queues that were forming much earlier.
It's not unreasonable for people to want to do that if the rules just say you need to be there by 10pm! I suspect that the people running the polling stations just wanted to go home and sod the voters.0 -
Sounds like a total mess.
Places closing early. Places ran out of ballot papers. A lot of it just sounds like the places didn't plan for the number of voter's ? Interviews I've seen said they'd tried to vote from 6 p.m. so it's not like it was because of last minute rush. Shambles.0 -
It's not unreasonable for people to want to do that if the rules just say you need to be there by 10pm! I suspect that the people running the polling stations just wanted to go home and sod the voters.
The voting rules apparently state that if you have a ballot paper in your hand by 10pm then you can vote, if not, tough. There are however reports that the funding for the polling stations has been cut this year with busy polling stations only having 3 staff on duty. DH, who has been called in to do the counts in previous years wasn't even asked this year.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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They can't do that, because law prohibits its from doing so. Germans don't like money printing and all that...
:rotfl:
They weren't allowed to use greek dog poo bonds as collateral either.....
Until they changed the rules when it suited them.;)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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