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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. qprbeth

    qprbeth Wicked Witch of West12
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    Uber ...vote. There must be someone you partially agree with

    even if not... spoil your ballot "none of the above"
     
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    Interesting beer fuelled debate in a succession of Riga bars with my mate, who is 100% Labour of the ‘pragmatic’ Blair tendency. He was getting his excuses in early for Starmer, how difficult everything was going to be, how long ‘change’ is going to take etc etc.

    I suggested two key performance indicators (sorry for the jargon) that any decent government of any type should be able to commit to, but especially a left(ish) one - a measurable reduction in numbers of people relying on food banks and a measurable reduction in homelessness (not just street sleeping, but those families trapped in one room accommodation for ages without a permanent home) within a decent timescale (a year?). He tried to wriggle out of even these, as I suspect Starmer will, before reluctantly accepting them. I will be interested to see if anything changes in these areas.

    I’ve voted, for entirely negative reasons not a shred of hope in my heart, but almost instantly regretted it, the purity of my soul is now sullied. I should have stayed with non voting comrades, who apparently don’t have a right to an opinion.
     
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    I agree with this. I believe it is my democratic right to not vote, should I choose. And that is what I intend doing.

    As a jokey aside my mate just messaged me saying he had voted. He said 'I ticked the one I wanted and put crosses against all the others'
     
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  5. qprbeth

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    It is absolutely your right not to vote.
    Whole point of democracy.


    But you cannot say..well I didn't vote for them...you didn't vote against them...or for anyone

    I can at least say that I did not vote for Boris's Tories in the last election.


    My argument begins to fail at this point as no one voted for Truss or Sunak
     
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    Through finessing our ordering system just achieved the 98p pint.

    **** the election. We have enough in the kitty for another 78 pints.
     
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    Babestation for lefties is any channel that airs past recordings of Margaret Beckett's parliamentary speeches
     
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    Better than ****ing over GBeebies.
     
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    I can honestly say I’ve not knowingly watched a second of that channel.
     
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    I imagine one could legitimately say that they’re all ****e and so I didn’t vote for any of them.
     
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  11. Toby

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    As long as they stop the count/result release during the football that sounds like a great plan! <cheers><popcorn>
     
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    I'm not voting
    Am I allowed an opinion




    I was allowed to vote in UK elections for I think 15 years after I left
    Didn't think it was fair as it wasn't going to effect me
    Lots of kiwis get to vote from overseas even if they have no intentions of ever coming back
    It does change seats here
    Shouldn't be allowed
     
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    No you're not allowed a ****in opinion. Bloody immigrants
     
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    Sure, it's always good to hear objective opinions
     
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    Who do we most want to lose?

    Farage is a cert to win sadly, so it's Rees-Mogg for me.
     
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    Stella Creasy for Labour. Caroline Noakes for Tories. Can't stand either of them.
     
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    Noakes used to be my MP until I moved; face like a horse.
     
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    Keir Starmer
     
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