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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. ----HistoryRepeating----

    ----HistoryRepeating---- Well-Known Member

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    Nice break from nukes though, I can watch the news again, yey.
     
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  2. - Doing The Lambert Walk

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  3. Archers Road

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    Good point. We'll probably all be dust before the ballots are counted, so who gives a hoot?
     
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    I'm no Tory, so don't consider this a defence, but how many people have you heard say; 'I didn't vote for her, the country didn't vote for her, why should she......'
    So, I can see why she is doing it in this moment of time, very much makes sense.....even though its annoying..
     
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  5. Puck

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    Yep, agreed. Plus the criticism she's received the couple of times she hasn't stuck to Cameron's manifesto.
     
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  6. ImpSaint

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    That's because half the idiots in this country have no idea how our elections work and do not understand we vote for a party and not for a "head of state."
     
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    ......and they keep asking the idiots to vote.........
     
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  8. ImpSaint

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    Will the Uni students bother voting the day before they break up :) That will dilute the metro liberal vote!!!
     
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    I wonder why she is doing it....
     
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  10. The Ides of March

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    There's the World Athletic Champioships Imp!! Plus the Tests against Oz, yet again, the British Lions getting beaten in NZ, a new Wimbledon Champion to look forward to. And of course the Jazz/Soul weekender just outside Brighton. Who needs politics?
     
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    I think there will be a low turnout in general for this. I think a lot of people will have had enough.

    She may get a higher % of the votes but i reckon she will get less votes total.
     
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  12. Puck

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    There may also be a low turnout because some Labour supporters think Corbyn is useless but don't feel they can vote for any other party.
     
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  13. ImpSaint

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    Politics is the best and most enthralling sport :)
     
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  14. tomw24

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    It will be a complete whitewash. Conservative will gain a huge majority IMO.
     
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    Which is worrying.
     
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  16. The Ides of March

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    I think I prefer a "blackwash." When the West Indies thrashed England 5-0 in the tests back in the Good Old Days of Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Andy Roberts, and the fantastic Michael Holding.
     
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  17. ImpSaint

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    How many Labour MPs will follow Tom Blenkinsop's lead and announce that they won;t be standing for re-election?

    Quite a few I predict.
     
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    If "half the idiots in the country" don't understand how the electoral system works, wouldn't that suggest there is something wrong with the system?
     
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    I know a lot of poor people, working class, live in council houses, use the NHS regularly... most of them will vote Tory. Because they read the Sun (and I think secretly hate foreigners). democracy is ****ed.
     
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