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Apr 30 2019, 09:02 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Apr 30 2019, 09:58 PM) ..... and if so... who the **** for? Its not like Lord Buckethead is standing.. Find the most unlikely candidate and vote for them. If everyone voted for JR Soapstone (equal rights for Owls party) someone, somewhere might just get the message!
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Apr 30 2019, 09:20 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Apr 30 2019, 10:02 PM) Find the most unlikely candidate and vote for them. If everyone voted for JR Soapstone (equal rights for Owls party) someone, somewhere might just get the message! I would but I can't... http://decisionmaking.westberks.gov.uk/mgE...mp;RPID=9612395Guess I'll just have to spoil with a few words...
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May 1 2019, 09:44 AM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ May 1 2019, 10:09 AM) What I do find interesting with this particular election is that the Liberal Democrats have failed to find enough candidates to challenge all the seats whereas Labour have.
Conservatives have also, but that's a given really. For years we have been told that Labour can't win here, but now they could and seem to have a decent amount of support. That's quite a change as one of the reasons they couldn't win before was simpy because there wasn't anyone standing!
As for my personal vote, I am so torn. I only have the three major parties to choose from so I might just go and draw a big c0ck on the paper. And balls obviously. I think the sensible thing to do is to be concerned only with local issues. I’ll probably vote Green even though our candidate is a bit of a knob.
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May 1 2019, 11:24 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 1 2019, 09:16 AM) He’s right in one respect. The world is laughing at us and our Neanderthal population. Watch JRM live on Facebook and gammon watch. Rarely do we see a properly formed sentence. It’s mostly “WTO NOW!” despite the fact they don’t have an O level between them, let alone an Economics one. Turkeys voting for Christmas. Gobble, gobble. Hmm, JRM, no O level, hmm, let's see. Oh yes, educated at Eton college. Second class honours degree at Trinity college. Learned to read company reports and balance sheets at the age of ten when he started investing in the stock market. (Note please that that's a proper degree, not a Billy Liar degree).
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May 1 2019, 11:37 AM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 12:24 PM) Hmm, JRM, no O level, hmm, let's see. Oh yes, educated at Eton college. Second class honours degree at Trinity college. Learned to read company reports and balance sheets at the age of ten when he started investing in the stock market. (Note please that that's a proper degree, not a Billy Liar degree). But he is a brexiteer so he must be a thick racist. Newres says so.
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May 1 2019, 11:41 AM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ May 1 2019, 10:09 AM) What I do find interesting with this particular election is that the Liberal Democrats have failed to find enough candidates to challenge all the seats whereas Labour have.
Conservatives have also, but that's a given really. For years we have been told that Labour can't win here, but now they could and seem to have a decent amount of support. That's quite a change as one of the reasons they couldn't win before was simpy because there wasn't anyone standing!
As for my personal vote, I am so torn. I only have the three major parties to choose from so I might just go and draw a big c0ck on the paper. And balls obviously. I don't thing a c0ck and balls is strong enough. I'd wipe my a$$ on it. It will be interesting to see the number of "spoiled" or possibly "solied" ballot papers.. I believe it will be a record percentage.
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May 1 2019, 11:43 AM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 12:24 PM) Hmm, JRM, no O level, hmm, let's see. Oh yes, educated at Eton college. Second class honours degree at Trinity college. Learned to read company reports and balance sheets at the age of ten when he started investing in the stock market. (Note please that that's a proper degree, not a Billy Liar degree). That just makes him an educated fool with money on his mind, as Coolio once said.
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May 1 2019, 11:45 AM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 1 2019, 12:41 PM) I don't thing a c0ck and balls is strong enough. I'd wipe my a$$ on it. It will be interesting to see the number of "spoiled" or possibly "solied" ballot papers.. I believe it will be a record percentage. Never understood why anyone would take the effort to get to a polling station only to spoil their ballot paper. Unless you're newres of course, they don't take kindly to people scribbling on the papers with a Crayola.
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May 1 2019, 11:46 AM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 1 2019, 12:41 PM) I don't thing a c0ck and balls is strong enough. I'd wipe my a$$ on it. It will be interesting to see the number of "spoiled" or possibly "solied" ballot papers.. I believe it will be a record percentage. I'm more interested in whether you will be prepared to eat your words if that is not the case.
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May 1 2019, 11:48 AM
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 1 2019, 12:43 PM) That just makes him an educated fool with money on his mind, as Coolio once said. Ah yes, Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle and of course, Coolio, one of the great thinkers of this or any other time.
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May 1 2019, 11:58 AM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 12:48 PM) Ah yes, Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle and of course, Coolio, one of the great thinkers of this or any other time. You may mock but there is actually quite a lot of philosophising going on in Gangsta's Paradise, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta%27s_Paradise#Synopsis
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May 1 2019, 12:03 PM
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 1 2019, 12:58 PM) You may mock but there is actually quite a lot of philosophising going on in Gangsta's Paradise, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta%27s_Paradise#SynopsisYeah, someone else who shouts about the evil of money and greed, on his way to the bank. Coolio 🤣🤣🤣
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May 1 2019, 12:10 PM
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 1 2019, 12:58 PM) You may mock but there is actually quite a lot of philosophising going on in Gangsta's Paradise, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta%27s_Paradise#SynopsisSomeone voting Lib Dem thinks Coolio is a "philosopher"....says it all...
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May 1 2019, 12:10 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 12:24 PM) Hmm, JRM, no O level, hmm, let's see. Oh yes, educated at Eton college. Second class honours degree at Trinity college. Learned to read company reports and balance sheets at the age of ten when he started investing in the stock market. (Note please that that's a proper degree, not a Billy Liar degree). I wasn't talking about JRM. He will be unaffected and probably to the good as a result of Brexit. I didn't do any Keith Waterhouse novels in my English degree. I have read that one though.
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May 1 2019, 12:16 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 1 2019, 01:10 PM) I wasn't talking about JRM. Really? Because you wrote, QUOTE (newres @ May 1 2019, 09:16 AM) Watch JRM. Rarely do we see a properly formed sentence. It’s mostly “WTO NOW!” despite the fact they don’t have an O level between them, let alone an Economics one. So, lying again? Or merely (very short term) memory loss?
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May 1 2019, 01:25 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 12:45 PM) Never understood why anyone would take the effort to get to a polling station only to spoil their ballot paper. Unless you're newres of course, they don't take kindly to people scribbling on the papers with a Crayola. I don't think they really care, just another column to tick. But I think there will be record numbers of spoiled papers and I just want to feel part of something that is actually growing for once.
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May 1 2019, 01:38 PM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ May 1 2019, 02:25 PM) I don't think they really care, just another column to tick. But I think there will be record numbers of spoiled papers and I just want to feel part of something that is actually growing for once. You're possibly right, the important thing is to register your displeasure I'm just not certain that wasting a good hard earned vote is the right way.
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May 1 2019, 02:34 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 01:16 PM) Really? Because you wrote,
So, lying again? Or merely (very short term) memory loss? JRM speaks to callers, the viewers type their comments. I said we SEE their comments.
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May 1 2019, 02:47 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 1 2019, 03:34 PM) JRM speaks to callers, the viewers type their comments. I said we SEE their comments. What ARE you wibbling on about?
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May 1 2019, 03:18 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 1 2019, 03:47 PM) What ARE you wibbling on about? Humour him... he probably doesn't have long left today on his day release... Think they need to up the dose of Lithium though...
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May 2 2019, 07:43 AM
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Thought of you guys:
🗳 Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed.
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May 2 2019, 08:14 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 1 2019, 10:44 AM) I think the sensible thing to do is to be concerned only with local issues. I’ll probably vote Green even though our candidate is a bit of a knob. Only a bit? If ever there was a political movement that is out of touch with reality it is the Green Party. They want us all to cycle everywhere yet advocate being in the greater european federation with complete movement of goods across the continent. Makes the rest almost credible.
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May 2 2019, 10:38 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 2 2019, 08:43 AM) Thought of you guys:
🗳 Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed. Very droll. It's called democracy chap. My vote or spoiled paper is my own choice. Go !$#% yourself you arrogant #$$
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May 2 2019, 10:38 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 2 2019, 08:43 AM) Thought of you guys:
🗳 Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed. Very droll. It's called democracy chap. My vote or spoiled paper is my own choice. Go !$#% yourself you arrogant #$$
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QUOTE (newres @ May 2 2019, 08:43 AM) Thought of you guys:
🗳 Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed. Very droll. It's called democracy chap. My vote or spoiled paper is my own choice. Go !$#% yourself you arrogant #$$
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May 2 2019, 10:46 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 2 2019, 08:43 AM) Thought of you guys:
🗳 Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed. And newres learns how to cut and paste, be writing in Crayola tomorrow.
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May 2 2019, 11:00 AM
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QUOTE (Turin Machine @ May 2 2019, 11:46 AM) And newres learns how to cut and paste, be writing in Crayola tomorrow. Keep ejaculating over Brexit.
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May 2 2019, 11:50 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 2 2019, 08:43 AM) Thought of you guys:
🗳 Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed.
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May 2 2019, 12:10 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 1 2019, 01:10 PM) Someone voting Lib Dem thinks Coolio is a "philosopher"....says it all... You don't have to be a philosopher to philosophise in the same way that you don't have to be a mathematician to carry out everyday arithmetic. In any case, I don't consider Coolio to be a philosopher and was just having a laugh, to be honest.
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 2 2019, 11:38 AM) Very droll. It's called democracy chap. My vote or spoiled paper is my own choice. Go !$#% yourself you arrogant #$$ Your own vote or lack of it is of course your own personal choice. In the 2017 general election in the Newbury constituency there were 144/60,999 spoiled votes or 0.236% of votes cast. Let's see if this percentage is exceeded in these local elections but I would certainly expect some eating of words to be done if this relatively low percentage is not exceeded by some margin.
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 2 2019, 09:49 PM) It will be interesting to see tomorrow's results, the usual parties will of course try to tell us "it's an accurate reflection of the next GE" whereas of course local elections are always used as a protest. Still, going to be interesting. Did you bother JSC?
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May 2 2019, 09:19 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 2 2019, 10:06 PM) Did you bother JSC? I always vote, it was a hard earned right to be able to engage in the process. People who can't be bothered shouldn't whine about the outcomes.
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 2 2019, 10:19 PM) I always vote, it was a hard earned right to be able to engage in the process. People who can't be bothered shouldn't whine about the outcomes. I agree.. for the first time in my life I couldn't bring myself to vote for any candidates though. TBH if a slug had been standing I'd have voted for that...so I did what I said I would do and wrote a few thoughts about the state of democracy. And then added a big c0ck and balls..🤣
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 2 2019, 01:27 PM) Your own vote or lack of it is of course your own personal choice. In the 2017 general election in the Newbury constituency there were 144/60,999 spoiled votes or 0.236% of votes cast. Let's see if this percentage is exceeded in these local elections but I would certainly expect some eating of words to be done if this relatively low percentage is not exceeded by some margin. 😂😂😂😂
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QUOTE (newres @ May 3 2019, 11:45 AM) Or even Jeremy Corbyn, 2016: We on the Labour Benches respect the referendum result and accept that Britain must leave the European Union." FEB 2019: "We will back a public vote in order to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit or a disastrous no deal outcome."
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 2 2019, 01:27 PM) Your own vote or lack of it is of course your own personal choice. In the 2017 general election in the Newbury constituency there were 144/60,999 spoiled votes or 0.236% of votes cast. Let's see if this percentage is exceeded in these local elections but I would certainly expect some eating of words to be done if this relatively low percentage is not exceeded by some margin. I'm feeling quietly confident...😂 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-69...on-results.html
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ May 3 2019, 12:55 PM) I think the message is clear, May must go, Corbyn must go. The only party leader with any degree of credibility is Cable, and he's going anyway. I think that’s probably true.
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 07:53 AM) In all seriousness though, given that the swing is to the Libdems, if Brexit was a big factor in deciding how to vote, I’d say it was a very good night for Remain. Let wait and see what happens May 23rd. Turnout will be far higher and a brexit option will be on the ballot.
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 4 2019, 08:26 AM) Let wait and see what happens May 23rd. Turnout will be far higher and a brexit option will be on the ballot. Did you not see the UKIP results?
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 08:56 AM) Did you not see the UKIP results? UKIP virtually died when Nigel quit, however, saying that, their strength has always been in sending MEP's to Brussels. Now we have the Brexit party who are widely tipped to do the same. What I and others were surprised at yesterday was the almost catastrophic failure of labour to punish the Tories. The lib Dems turned out again to be the party of the protest vote with surprising results for the Indies. Mays election will be interesting to watch. I was thoroughly entertained by yesterday's events, it's an (interesting) time for politics.
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May 4 2019, 09:04 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 2 2019, 08:43 AM) Thought of you guys:
�� Today is #LocalElections2019 day!
☑️ NORMAL PEOPLE: Go vote for who you feel will be best to represent you locally. Polls close at 10pm
☑️ GAMMON: Go on your local Facebook group and tell us you won’t vote for the main parties (despite the fact these are local elections), angrily read The Sun or Daily Mail, claim you’re voting Brexit party or UKIP, waddle along to the polling station and spoil your vote...that’ll show ‘em, wallow in your own brine, punch your keyboard, make out the media are hiding the truth, claim the BBC are biased, scrape your dried bodily fluids off your yellow vest, change your profile picture to include a union flag, or a poppy, or a soldier in silhouette [you choose], go back on Facebook and post a badly-photoshopped and pixelated meme containing factually incorrect information, then post another one as not enough people clicked like on the first one which annoyed you, ejaculate over Brexit, get angry whilst watching Question Time, go on Facebook to tell everyone you’re angry watching question time, bring Dianne Abbott into an online conversation despite the fact she’s probably irrelevant to the original post, punch keyboard again, mummy then sends you to bed. Personally, I think children should not be allowed to post here, but as 'newres' is here I may as well respond to his/her trolling ad hominem. 'Thought of you guys' - I'm not sure you are capable of independent thought at all. You post sneeringly about about others posting a meme, but in fact the entire text of your post has been lifted, word-for-word, from a childish online magazine on Facebook. Pot. Kettle. Black. I guess you don't have the intellect to make your own arguments, so borrow other people's lame stereotypes instead. You're the 'knobhead' on this forum, kiddy. P.S. Dianne Abbott is never relevant to anything.
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May 4 2019, 09:33 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 07:53 AM) In all seriousness though, given that the swing is to the Libdems, if Brexit was a big factor in deciding how to vote, I’d say it was a very good night for Remain. Yes, the only Remain party got far fewer seats than the Tories. What a Remainer Victory... So far we have established that your life skills do not include wit, originality, courtesy or psephology. Are you good at anything?
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May 4 2019, 09:34 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 07:53 AM) In all seriousness though, given that the swing is to the Libdems, if Brexit was a big factor in deciding how to vote, I’d say it was a very good night for Remain. Except of course, when you drill down into the results the lib Dems did well in some very strong brexit areas but poorly in some remain areas, what was interesting was that the polls were wrong again. Let's see how well lib Dems do in May.
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May 4 2019, 09:38 AM
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QUOTE (DJE @ May 4 2019, 10:33 AM) Yes, the only Remain party got far fewer seats than the Tories. What a Remainer Victory...
So far we have established that your life skills do not include originality, courtesy, psephology or wit.
Are you good at anything? Now there's a word we don't see used often enough, psephology. 👍
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May 4 2019, 10:45 AM
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QUOTE (DJE @ May 4 2019, 10:04 AM) Personally, I think children should not be allowed to post here, but as 'newres' is here I may as well respond to his/her trolling ad hominem. 'Thought of you guys' - I'm not sure you are capable of independent thought at all. You post sneeringly about about others posting a meme, but in fact the entire text of your post has been lifted, word-for-word, from a childish online magazine on Facebook. Pot. Kettle. Black. I guess you don't have the intellect to make your own arguments, so borrow other people's lame stereotypes instead. You're the 'knobhead' on this forum, kiddy. P.S. Dianne Abbott is never relevant to anything. I’m honoured that you broke two years of silence to join the gammon on here and prove the accuracy of the meme by bringing Diane Abbott into it. I hope you had a tissue with you to wipe your ejaculation off the keyboard.
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May 4 2019, 11:19 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 11:45 AM) I’m honoured that you broke two years of silence to join the gammon on here and prove the accuracy of the meme by bringing Diane Abbott into it. I hope you had a tissue with you to wipe your ejaculation off the keyboard. You seem to be as popular as the clap on this forum. Says it all really.
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May 4 2019, 11:38 AM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 4 2019, 12:19 PM) You seem to be as popular as the clap on this forum. Says it all really. Yes. The only non Brextremist and it makes you all cross.
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May 4 2019, 11:46 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 11:45 AM) I’m honoured that you broke two years of silence to join the gammon on here and prove the accuracy of the meme by bringing Diane Abbott into it. I hope you had a tissue with you to wipe your ejaculation off the keyboard. I'm disappointed. I hoped that by pointing out the dismal calibre of your recent posts, you'd make the effort to say something insightful, or constructve. My low opinion of you was, evidently, still too high. If you are a child, best you go off to a Pokemon forum or whatever entertains children nowadays. If you think are an adult.. well, good luck with that self-delusion. With your inept social skills, inability to put forward an intelligent view rather than attack other's in a childish way, (or simply cut and paste other people's views as you are incapable of formulating a mature one of your own), and your general predisposition to be an idiot, I see a mediocre future for you. Anyway, no point in engaging with you further. If I wanted to read any more crap (I don't), I could just go to the intellect-free sources that you cut and paste from. Bye-bye, kiddie. PS if there are any Remainer adults here I'm perfectly happy to listen to them. This place is a forum, after all. But not a kindergarten.
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May 4 2019, 12:14 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 12:38 PM) Yes. The only non Brextremist and it makes you all cross. "Brextremist"? Oh my word...You are so funny. Anyone that doesn't agree with you is an "extremist"? I'd be looking over my shoulder all day and night if u really believe that... after all extremists often commit acts of extreme violence. I don't quite see JSC or me firebombing you...we wouldn't waste our time and lives on such a saddo. Toodlepip.
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May 4 2019, 12:52 PM
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QUOTE (DJE @ May 4 2019, 12:46 PM) I'm disappointed. I hoped that by pointing out the dismal calibre of your recent posts, you'd make the effort to say something insightful, or constructve. My low opinion of you was, evidently, still too high. If you are a child, best you go off to a Pokemon forum or whatever entertains children nowadays. If you think are an adult.. well, good luck with that self-delusion. With your inept social skills, inability to put forward an intelligent view rather than attack other's in a childish way, (or simply cut and paste other people's views as you are incapable of formulating a mature one of your own), and your general predisposition to be an idiot, I see a mediocre future for you. Anyway, no point in engaging with you further. If I wanted to read any more crap (I don't), I could just go to the intellect-free sources that you cut and paste from. Bye-bye, kiddie. PS if there are any Remainer adults here I'm perfectly happy to listen to them. This place is a forum, after all. But not a kindergarten. Off you toddle then. Keep your tissues handy by the keyboard in case you change your mind.
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May 4 2019, 12:57 PM
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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ May 4 2019, 01:19 PM) I'm pretty sure poor old newres is more than capable of defending his position, but why the vitriol? Disagree by all means but don't belittle yourselves by trying to sink lower than the person you are arguing with. It doesn’t occur to them that I’m pretty much the only contributor with a different view and a new/returning knobhead posting and joining in the abuse dished out by the regulars is something much less than noble. And what was even more amusing was when he was responded to in kind he expressed disappointment and disappeared with his tail between his elderly legs.
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May 4 2019, 01:32 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 4 2019, 01:57 PM) It doesn’t occur to them that I’m pretty much the only contributor with a different view and a new/returning knobhead posting and joining in the abuse dished out by the regulars is something much less than noble. And what was even more amusing was when he was responded to in kind he expressed disappointment and disappeared with his tail between his elderly legs. Aww....diddums...want a lollipop?
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May 5 2019, 08:16 AM
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QUOTE (DJE @ May 4 2019, 12:46 PM) PS if there are any Remainer adults here I'm perfectly happy to listen to them. This place is a forum, after all. But not a kindergarten. I'm intrigued as to whether you would class me as a Remainer adult in this debate.
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May 5 2019, 08:29 AM
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 5 2019, 09:16 AM) I'm intrigued as to whether you would class me as a Remainer adult in this debate. I certainly would.
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May 5 2019, 11:58 AM
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ May 5 2019, 09:16 AM) I'm intrigued as to whether you would class me as a Remainer adult in this debate. If you baby sat them for a while they’d attack you too.
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May 5 2019, 12:28 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 12:58 PM) If you baby sat them for a while they’d attack you too. Awww diddums. Feeling left out... Never mind. It will all be better soon.🤣
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May 5 2019, 01:58 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 5 2019, 01:28 PM) Awww diddums. Feeling left out... Never mind. It will all be better soon.🤣 Why? Is he going under a bus then? He makes me chuckle, JSC is a remainder but newres has to keep slagging him off. Lad doesn't know when to stop does he.
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May 5 2019, 02:00 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 12:58 PM) If you posted lies for a while they’d attack you too. FTFY. 🤣
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May 5 2019, 02:28 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 5 2019, 01:28 PM) Awww diddums. Feeling left out... Never mind. It will all be better soon.🤣 Not at all. I like the fact that I’m not a reactionary old gammon and love seeing you all get triggered. DJDick was brilliant yesterday. All that Daily Mail reading exploded yesterday all over his keyboard. How does anyone get that angry just because someone has a different view?
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May 5 2019, 03:15 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 03:28 PM) Not at all. I like the fact that I’m not a reactionary old gammon and love seeing you all get triggered. DJDick was brilliant yesterday. All that Daily Mail reading exploded yesterday all over his keyboard. How does anyone get that angry just because someone has a different view? The fact of the matter is Brexit is something that divides political opinions, like no other and it causes anger and resentment. The Brexit party is currently running at 30% in the polls and I would expect that figure to be nearer 40% at the EU elections. The reason... a lot of people won't say they are voting for Brexit because of people like you. They don't want to be branded a xenophobe or a racist or thick. Just so you know when you wake up on the 23rd of May to 2016 revisited.😂 People like you harden brexiteers opinions.
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May 5 2019, 03:17 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 5 2019, 04:15 PM) The fact of the matter is Brexit is something that divides political opinions, like no other and it causes anger and resentment. The Brexit party is currently running at 30% in the polls and I would expect that figure to be nearer 40% at the EU elections. The reason... a lot of people won't say they are voting for Brexit because of people like you. They don't want to be branded a xenophobe or a racist or thick. Just so you know when you wake up on the 23rd of May to 2016 revisited.😂 People like you harden brexiteers opinions. On the other hand every poll shows 60:40 support for Remain.
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May 5 2019, 03:20 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 04:17 PM) On the other hand every poll shows 60:40 support for Remain. I'm not disagreeing. So I guess we should just vote every 2 years?
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May 5 2019, 03:20 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 04:17 PM) On the other hand every poll shows 60:40 support for Remain. You know the rule, linky thing first.
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May 5 2019, 03:33 PM
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QUOTE (Turin Machine @ May 5 2019, 04:20 PM) You know the rule, linky thing first. Probably a poll conducted by the New European where the voting sample was a 1000 and all the people they contacted were from London and friends of David Lammy and Femi.🤣🤣🤣
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May 5 2019, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 04:17 PM) On the other hand every poll shows 60:40 support for Remain. Also every poll has the Brexit party well ahead. Bit of masterstroke from Nige calling it the Brexit party...I can already see the liberal tears....😂😂
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May 5 2019, 03:54 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ May 5 2019, 04:38 PM) Also every poll has the Brexit party well ahead. Bit of masterstroke from Nige calling it the Brexit party...I can already see the liberal tears....😂😂 It isn’t a party. It doesn’t have members. It’s very odd.
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May 5 2019, 04:05 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 5 2019, 04:54 PM) It isn’t a party. It doesn’t have members. It’s very odd. Oh!RLY! Brexit Party https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/11h0...rypoint=sh/x/kp
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