Off Topic Brexiterrs vote today

Saw an interview with Anne Widdecombe (one of their leading spokespeople), she confirmed it was deliberate for Peterborough bi election, a new party too so obviously they had no other policies, but also wanted Peterborough vote to just be about MP’s not delivering Brexit.

Your point about your Mum illustrates how difficult it’s going to be for them to change peoples habits , which Is what they’ll need to do in order to be successful.

 

it is very sad when peeps are stuck in a groove they conscientiously are unable to make decisions based on facts around them & pertinent to them …. one of the more serious aspects of this is the person who says … every Friday night I HAVE ALWAYS HAD 3 PINTS AND 3 DOUBLE WHISKIES AND DRIVEN HOME ….. until the time it stops ………..

 

Certainly made all party's aware that the public are not happy.

Thank god for Nigel Farage without him god knows where we be.

 

TFFT...............

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48613921

 

The Commons opposed the move by 309 votes to 298.

Still 298 scallywags trying to stop it.
People should vote a no confidence motion in the seats they hold and remove the lot of them if they represent leave seats.

 

we elect MP's to serve us for what we were interested in them saying they were going to do ...abolish taxes or increase taxes pay pensioners more pay them less ...whatever …
we also expect them to "be at work" doing the right thing by us for voting for important things [ for or against ] so why today did 42 of them not vote! [ I think the speaker may only get a deciding vote? ] is it to be assumed they were against the idea .. so vote was really 349 against 298 for! what is the betting someone else try it on to get a similar vote …
3 very interesting interviews today javid / boris and rees mogg … BBC also seemed to side on remain/ anti boris / when supposed to bias.. if they scrapped tv licence altogether and BBC HAD TO RELY ON ADVERTS would they last more than a year?

 

Boris is our version of Trump.

 

And he is doing a cracking job and has done as promised.

 

I see the Brexit party are taking action over the Results in Peterborough and a full investigation is now being carried out over the result.

Seems as if evidence suggests the results has been tampered with.

Well done i say,not only has democracy gone out the window,it looks like our voting system is being rigged as well.

 

The Brexit Party complaining over breaches in electoral law is a lovely little irony. Not very nice is it!

 

Russia in disguise the UK

 

God help us if the Labour party got in and corbalyt running the show.

 

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The Brexit party is to launch a formal legal challenge against the result of this month’s Peterborough byelection, where it was narrowly beaten by Labour, claiming that allegations of corruption connected to postal votes need to be investigated.

Nigel Farage, the party’s leader, insisted the challenge was about more than the loss to Labour by 683 votes, saying the wider use of postal votes was open to abuse and needed to be investigated.

“I know people will say: ‘Oh, but it’s sour grapes.’ It isn’t,” Farage told a press conference in London.

“Actually, as far as I’m concerned, this is about a lot more than Peterborough. It is about a system that is wide open to corruption, to intimidation, to bribery, to abuse on a whole number of levels. I have mentioned this a number of times in the past.”

The party plans to issue a petition under the 1983 Representation of the People Act, which allows election results to be challenged retrospectively for reasons including errors or corruption connected to the polling.

Such challenges are rare, with the last successful one coming in 2010, when the Labour minister Phil Woolas was ejected from his Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency after a specially convened election court upheld a complaint that Woolas had knowingly lied about his Lib Dem opponent.

Police investigated five complaints connected to the Peterborough byelection on 6 June, in which Labour’s Lisa Forbes defeated the Brexit party’s Mike Greene in a vote Farage’s new organisation had been tipped to win.

Labour has rejected any wrongdoing, and police have ruled that no offenceswere committed in three of the five complaints so far looked at.

The Brexit party chair, Richard Tice, conceded that the evidence so far seemed uncertain, but said that was why a full investigation was required.

“You’re absolutely right – there are a lot of rumours, a lot of hearsay, some of which is just that,” Tice said. “There is evidence emerging. That will be presented to the electoral court. It’s wrong to prejudge that, or announce that now.

“It’s only by having a full petition that we can truly get to the bottom of what may or may not have happened here, but also the lessons for the broader system.”

He said there were many unanswered issues: “Why were there rumours that morning that the Labour party had won by 500 votes? There are so many questions. We need answers. And the only mechanism available to us to give us those answers is to lodge a petition under the Representation of the People Act 1983. So we will be doing that this week.”

Both Farage and Tice said they hoped more widely for UK elections to return to the pre-2001 system of voters only being allowed a postal ballot if they can show they are away or ill, rather than on demand. Since then the proportion of general election votes submitted by post has risen from about 2% to 18% in 2017.

 

****ing hell, there was a vote he lost let’s just move on. Ain’t that what you’ve been banging on about

 

Yeah Red Robin. You lost. Get over it!

 

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****ing hell, there was a vote he lost let’s just move on. Ain’t that what you’ve been banging on about

Not if it was corruption and cheating

 

Go on Rob fill your boots with a reply to this one

 

I’m not saying he’s daft or anything but Red Robin protesting today.

 

there has been a number of instances brought up about suspected postal votes in the past few years, and it is a system open to corruption … 2.4% [ postal votes ] of 35m is equivalent to 840,000 votes so per seat in parliament =
[ maths = 35,000,000 potential votes 2.4% by post =840,000 / 650 seats = 1290 votes per seat ] granted not all seats are equal so somewhere between 1000 and 1500 postal votes per seat … so anything like a 500 or so majority could be suspect … maths to determine variants is quite complicated …