howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
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#2
typical eurosectic response but he may be right for a change.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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There are small areas of the country where there are not many white faces, I doubt many could disagree with that.
What annoyed me was the headline which the leaves out the vital word "parts" which puts an entirely different connotation on the whole discussion.
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Captain Haddock
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London population projected to grow 13% by 2022, compared with 7% for England as a whole
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Tower Hamlets to rise by 22% no great surprise there.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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While everyone get's uptight about fellow Europeans coming over here (which the Border Agency can do bugger all about) here's what's happening with just one category of 'controllable' visitors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644428/100-000-foreign-students-missing-year-College-leavers-Asia-thought-living-Britain-illegally.html 
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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a thorny problem,to find and remove we could be accused of semitisam akin to what hitler did to the jews.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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More benefits of our diverse and multi cultural society! 'Stolen election' in the heart of London | via @Telegraph
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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No other country would tolerate this, Archibald. Our political leaders are totally spineless.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The only answer to me seems to be heavy policing of polling stations, no postal votes and once polling closes the ballot boxes
taken to a location many miles away and counted by an independent body.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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The ballot boxes should definitely be guarded in some way, postal votes only to the disabled and voters stamped or marked after voting as they do in other countries.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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National insurance number to register, proof of id to vote. Just like most countries. Simples.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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John Prescott was a champion of postal voting in the heady days of the labour tenure. Mind you he's also a climate weirdo as are all of the labour party.
Join the dots.
Bob Whysman
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Jan Higgins wrote:The ballot boxes should definitely be guarded in some way, postal votes only to the disabled and voters stamped or marked after voting as they do in other countries.
'Stamped or marked' Jan? Bovver booted and 20 lashes of the Birch.......that would reduce the turnout of voters for sure!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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For some that could be a good idea but I doubt if those miscreants know how to vote.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Good to see the police taking action here, we will find a lot more comes out, this is only the tip of the ice cube.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/04/two-held-tower-hamlets-electoral-irregularitiesCaptain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Peter Garstin wrote:National insurance number to register, proof of id to vote. Just like most countries. Simples.
Interestingly, whilst the population of the UK is supposedly just over 63 million, a FOI request last year gave the number of extant National Insurance numbers as some 65 million. Ignoring those under 16 years of age this would suggest that the real number of persons in the UK is closer to 70 million.
Ask yourself a question. If you were illegally in the UK would you have filled in your details on the Census Return?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Obviously not Bob.
We are creating a problem for now and the future with our eyes wide open. By the time the drawbridge is raised, we will be/are now, full up.
We should be using the Oz points system and go for quality not quantity.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Some years back it was suggested that the average London borough had about 50, 000 people more than the official figures.
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