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Where are all the Romulans and Bulgarians?

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  • cepheus
    cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
    edited 19 May 2014 at 4:21PM
    GeorgeHowell wrote: »
    Must be a lot concerned then, if they're going to poll 30% on Thursday as we're led to believe.

    Remember the turnout last time was 34.7%, so we are talking about only one tenth of the electorate voting UKIP if those figures are accurate. Is it that remarkable that one out of ten people are either racist, a Europhile, or simply so ignorant of UKIP policies they don't even realise they support the notorious, costly CAP! :eek:
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    cepheus wrote: »
    Remember the turnout last time was 34.7%, so we are talking about only one tenth of the electorate voting UKIP if those figures are accurate. Is it that remarkable that one out of ten people are either racist, a Europhile, or simply so ignorant of UKIP policies they don't even realise they support the notorious, costly CAP! :eek:

    not a logical deduction but I guess that UKIP supporters don't have a monopoly of unintelligent deductions.
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    cepheus wrote: »
    Remember the turnout last time was 34.7%, so we are talking about only one tenth of the electorate voting UKIP if those figures are accurate. Is it that remarkable that one out of ten people are either racist, a Europhile, or simply so ignorant of UKIP policies they don't even realise they support the notorious, costly CAP! :eek:

    At least one in 30 people still might have to move because they find out their neighbours voted UKIP -- nightmare.

    The Left believes that anyone doing so must be racist, Europhobe, or ignorant. That completely disregards the fact for that most who do it in the otherwise meaningless European Parliament elections it will represent a protest against the major parties who fail to respond to public opinion on things like immigration and the EU. But to the left, because those concerns are 'wrong-thinking', then those who hold them must be ignorant or evil, or both. That's what I call unintelligent -- but then it is the Left that we are talking about
    No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
  • cepheus
    cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
    GeorgeHowell wrote: »
    That completely disregards the fact for that most who do it in the otherwise meaningless European Parliament elections i

    Strange, and I was told the EU set 75% of our laws :) Sorry forgot to throw that propaganda in the bin.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    cepheus wrote: »
    Strange, and I was told the EU set 75% of our laws :) Sorry forgot to throw that propaganda in the bin.

    and the undemocratic nature of the EU government means that the MEP elections are largely irrelevant.
  • cepheus
    cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
    edited 19 May 2014 at 8:40PM
    Not like our 1st past the post system where a party can bribe 30% whilst 70% hate them.

    If UKIP still do well on Thursday after the last few weeks, it'll be a sad indictment of British voters
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    cepheus wrote: »
    Not like our 1st past the post system where a party can bribe 30% whilst 70% hate them.

    If UKIP still do well on Thursday after the last few weeks, it'll be a sad indictment of British voters

    the left has always hated democracy
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    cepheus wrote: »
    Not like our 1st past the post system where a party can bribe 30% whilst 70% hate them.

    You mean like Labour did for 13 years with their "client state" policy ?
    No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
  • burlington6
    burlington6 Posts: 2,111 Forumite
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    How can the liberal left accept the views muslims hold towards gay people?
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    burlington6 wrote: »
    How can the liberal left accept the views muslims hold towards gay people?

    All Muslims? If you go to Kuwait you'll see plenty of men holding hands in public.
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