European election

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  26 April 2019     11:59356910
  #1      
  Nominations closed yesterday so if they are held we will find out who our ten MEPs are later next month. Councils have all been paid in full for holding this election whether or not it happens.
• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 6,025
  26 April 2019     12:11356911
  #2      
  Just received my polling card.Doubt if I shall bother
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  26 April 2019     12:25356913
  #3      
  Full list of candidates here and I recognise 5 names, one of those only because of his more famous brother.
  
  
  
  https://www.dover.gov.uk/Council--Democracy/Elections/23-May-2019-Statement-of-Persons-Nominated-Notice-of-Poll-Web.pdf
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  28 April 2019     10:17356969
  #4      
  It gets ever more surreal with Labour activists now joining their Tory counterparts in boycotting the European election.
  
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/28/labour-activists-threaten-european-election-campaign-boycott-second-referendum
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,397
  28 April 2019     12:20356973
  #5      
  Latest European Parliament voting intention (23-26 April)
  Brexit Party - 28%
  Lab - 22%
  Con - 13%
  Green - 10%
  Change UK - 10%
  Lib Dem - 7%
  UKIP - 5%
  Other - 6%
  
  
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  28 April 2019     12:59356980
  #6      
  more ruffeled feathers. larfing all the way to the bank.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,931
  16 May 2019     08:57357458
  #7      
  I am posting this as a tribute to Howard whose daily political posts are hopefully only taking a very short break.
  
  After listening to various politicians recently I have decided I will follow their example by promising the electorate everything that is virtually impossible if we vote for them.
  
  I therefore promise my family and friends I will loose several stone in weight without dieting, become at least twenty years younger and win the lottery even though I do not do it.
  Pablo, Alec Sheldon and Brian Dixon like this
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  16 May 2019     09:00357459
  #8      
  I will vote for you jan. lol