Button
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Post 638: (inevitably) you generalise; we have 6 young adults including their partners (though not all at home thank goodness) and they each voted in the last General Election, in last year's Referendum and say they will again this coming June. Another thing they have in common is that none has voted at Town/parish, District or County level. They got very excited about "their vote counting" and I felt guilty explaining the first-past-the-post system to them.
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Captain Haddock
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Charlie has made today a campaign free day, hopefully this will get through to his helpers who were delivering leaflets in at least two parts of town yesterday.
As soon as Charlie found out about this he [U]did[/U] try to stop it. Never work with children, animals or pensioners without mobile 'phones.
Unfortunately by the time the boys in the Home for Retired Journalists (CEHQ) got round to contacting Charlie's army of deliverers (myself and Nigel Collor who has a note from his doctor excusing him 'hills' + that lady from Buckland whose name escapes me) it was too late.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Nigel Farage has been sounding off non stop and making political capital about the Manchester bombing so they have never really stopped campaigning.
http://news.sky.com/story/general-election-ukip-to-resume-campaigning-with-manifesto-launch-10891115Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The Jihadists don't like the idea of elections at all and Muslims in general don't seem to like like liberal democracies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_democracy
With all due respect to the victims, the correct reply to the Manchester outrage I suggest is actually MORE campaigning.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Hostilities resume tomorrow after the period of mourning and it will be interesting to see if Labour can continue the momentum they had just before. I suspect the Tory campaign team has been flat out reshaping things since Monday.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A Yougov poll in the Times shows the Tory lead cut to 5% points, whether that is just a rogue poll or not we won't know until more are published over the weekend. One question to be answered is where the UKIP will go. In the South it is expected to go to the Tories but in the North and Midlands experts say that most will stay with UKIP if they have a candidate standing or go back to Labour.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:A Yougov poll in the Times shows the Tory lead cut to 5% points, whether that is just a rogue poll or not we won't know until more are published over the weekend. One question to be answered is where the UKIP will go. In the South it is expected to go to the Tories but in the North and Midlands experts say that most will stay with UKIP if they have a candidate standing or go back to Labour.
I get the vibe that this political scientists are sticking a wet finger in the air on a breeze-less day. In short, they are guessing. We'll only get a better steer when the exit poll happens at 10:01pm on 8th June...and for sure at 4am June 9th. In the meantime, polls and opinion are airless windsocks.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Had my first election leaflet through today - from UKIP who seemed more concerned that I don't vote Labour than anything else.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Cruella seems to have gone into a blind panic for some unknown reason. Jezza says there are no excuses for the atrocity in Manchester to which our PM accuses him of excusing the atrocities in Manchester. Even with her recent failings the bookies have the Tories down for an overall majority of 150, I checked that just now. I shudder to think what she will be like under real pressure.
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Keith Sansum1
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IV not seen one yet only the ones sent during the KCC elections.
Whilst I expected the tories to win by a landslide I'm now thinking it will be a lot closer
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Put simply both main parties are living in a fantasy world with little real idea how their policies would work out in practice.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/26/conservative-labour-tax-spending-plans-ifs-general-election-manifestoGuest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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All balance sheets are equal, some are more equal than others.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Opinium for the Observer has the Tories with a 10 % lead whilst an ORB poll for the Telegraph has the lead at 6%, most remarkable is that Corbyn's popularity is rising whilst the PMs is falling.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Howard
It appears when faced with 5 more years of the conservatives people are now looking for alternatives.
A lot of Corbyns/Labours policies have appeal to a lot of people.
maybe the surge will continue and it will be a lot closer than people(including me) first thought.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The more of the rubbish I read at times on this page,I know we done the right thing in not voting.
Jan Higgins
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It will be interesting to see how accurate all these polls are in the end.
I have never understood why anyone takes any notice of them as they rely on people giving an honest answer when the replies could be a bunch of lies.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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The good thing with posts like 657 is that its a bit like another thread where S Nicholas used double standards on the food at DTC
Just like poster 657 it was all ok whilst he remained unelected on a number of small parish councils
once he packs up(if he has) it's not ok for others and all a waste
it's a viewpoint
bit of a double standard though
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Give it a rest Keith.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Stacey is out campaigning in Elvington, no news of where Charlie is.
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