Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Maybe more might be persuaded to vote if there was a 'none of the above' box together with a pretty picture as encouragement.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
I think we find ourselves in a no win situation.
We have a Govt that certainly wont be looking after our interests, but the alternative is as dire.
Apathy in voting is increasing,
It's not good
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According to the
www.schoolcuts.org.uk website:
Aycliffe Community Primary School
Unless the Government allocates more money, schools will lose £3 billion a year in real terms by 2020.
98% of schools' costs are rising faster than their income.
60% of secondary schools are running deficit budgets.
-£51,829 Budget change by 2019
-£386 Per pupil
-2 Teachers
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St Mary's CoE Primary
-£70,433 Budget change by 2019
-£302 Per pupil
-2 Teachers
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Barton Junior School
-£111,082 Budget change by 2019
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Shatterlocks Infant School
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
So it's not all bad news then?
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Dover Christ Church Academy
-£840,751 Budget change by 2019
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Yup. School spending down.
https://fullfact.org/education/school-spending-or-down/ Perhaps this is yet another budget you'd like to 'ring fence'? In the absence of the 'magic money tree' would you prefer increased net borrowing (the usual Labour trick) which the poor little darlings can try too pay off long after you and I are dead?
Meanwhile further news of the awaited Labour Death Spiral.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
It may not necessarily be the landslide the most expect if deals are done between parties. Not been mentioned yet but I would suggest that labour put up no candidates in the South West leaving the Lib Dems to win back all those seats they have lost to the Tories.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-2017-liberal-democrats-paper-candidates-constituencies-tactical-voting-vince-cable-a7724276.htmlJan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:It may not necessarily be the landslide the most expect if deals are done between parties. Not been mentioned yet but I would suggest that labour put up no candidates in the South West leaving the Lib Dems to win back all those seats they have lost to the Tories.
That way of trying to rig the election always annoys me, it demonstrates when a party is running scared.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Almost as disgusting as Thanet South last time where BOTH Labour and Conservative were happy to pull out all the stops to stop Farage getting a seat.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Jan Higgins wrote:That way of trying to rig the election always annoys me, it demonstrates when a party is running scared.
That is politics under the present system, UKIP are not standing where there is a pro-brexit Tory to stop Labour getting in. Proportional Representation would stop all that.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Proportional Representation would stop all that.
And would lead to the continental farce of almost permanent coalition governments resulting in things like Dover and Shepway
having to spend £750,000 on an unwanted scheme to 'encourage re-cycling' which was introduced as a sop to the Lib Dems.
http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/dclg-unveils-recipients-of-11-million-recycling-fund/
As part of the scheme, residents who put out their recycling each week will be selected at random and offered prizes including discounts from local shops, or a donation to a charity or community groups, while schools will be offered cash prizes for new equipment.
A time of austerity my arse!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Capt Haddock: You seem to be particularly cock-a-hoop today (Capt Peacock perhaps). Let's talk about austerity. How come we can afford to drop bombs on Syria? Does the RAF have a spreadsheet and a bomb budget? Do we not re-order munitions went they are spent?
For some there is a maxim of charity begins at home. The working poor are not after charity, they are after a break from the 'hand to mouth' existence in the world's sixth largest economy. (And before you suggest otherwise Nokia phones and Sky TV access are not a valid argument for child poverty or subsidising the working poor.)
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Proportional Representation will mean that EVERY vote will matter and be a solution to voter apathy. Whoever is in power, whether Labour, Conservative or Labour or Conservative (!) avoids system changes because they can see that their power will be diminished.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Bishop, every vote matters now.
I have mixed feeling about proportional representation. Coalitions are usually the result which can put the brakes on extreme plans but can also stop some very good ones.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Bishop wrote:How come we can afford to drop bombs on Syria?
The UK is part of the Global Coalition, a body of 68 partners from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas which has committed to defeating IS using military action among other tactics.
'Bombs away' as far as I'm concerned.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The BBC has announced its General Election TV offering. Here are the dates for your diary…
9 May – Theresa May and her husband Philip appear on BBC’s One Show
22 May – Theresa May interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC One at 7pm
23 May – Paul Nuttall interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC One at 7pm
24 May – Tim Farron interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC One at 7pm
25 May – Nicola Sturgeon interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC One at 7pm
26 May – Jeremy Corbyn interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC One at 7pm
31 May – Mishal Husain hosts seven-way debate on live on BBC One featuring “senior Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Green Party and UKIP figures”. But who?
2 June – David Dimbleby hosts Question Time Special in which Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn face audience questions consecutively. May and Corbyn on the same show, though not together.
4 June – David Dimbleby hosts second Question Time Special in which Tim Farron and Nicola Sturgeon face audience questions consecutively.
4 June – Special ‘Election Questions to Plaid Cymru’ leader Leanne Wood from Swansea ‘Election Questions to UKIP leader Paul Nuttall’ from Bristol.
6 June – Newsbeat Youth debate on with an audience of 16-34 year olds hosted by Tina Daheley in Manchester.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
