Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#101
In the US you register to vote with your social security number and produce ID to get into the polling booth. Why can't we do similar?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 1282- Registered: 25 May 2014
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#102
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#103
Marhaba, ya Bedar, ahlan wa sahlan.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#104
does anyone know when the results will start to come through, polls close at 9 pm our time?
with the huge size of constituencies it must take a lot longer than general election counts.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#105
the returning officer in our constituency says that an announcement will be made soon then the parties can demand a recount.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#106
Different to what I was expecting.
New exit poll projections
Exit poll from the European Parliament now puts the main centre-right grouping on 211 seats, compared with 265 in the outgoing parliament, and the socialist group on 193, slightly up. Eurosceptic parties would get around 129 seats.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#107
Audere est facere.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#108
Link comes straight back here, Martin. Try
this one.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#109
Cheers Peter, links seem to have a life of their own..... well mine do anyway
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#110
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#111
Jan Higgins
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#112
There seems to have been a few countries like the UK who are going against the way Europe introduced rules and laws which overturn a country's own laws and custom.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#113
The media have portrayed the results as a swing to the right but on closer examination the vote was mainly for Euro scepticism.
Left wing parties won the day in Spain, Portugal and Italy and there was strong support in Greece and over here.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#114
That is only because they are getting more out then they put in unlike the UK who is putting in a lot more then we can ever get out .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#115
So why did they vote against the European union?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#116
Because the EU has imposed austerity upon them, Howard. Simples.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#117
It seems certain that a former prime minister of Luxembourg will be the next president of the European commission.
He may well be a clever bloke but running a country with a population equivalent to just 2 London boroughs suggests that this is a big leap for him.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#118
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#119
a case of sour swiss chocolate.
