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Depends on the benefit. I don't need more money, I'd settle for more security. Those that do depend on them, proven that they are needed of course such as disability / illness (sickness doesn't sound right) are always under constant threat of change, reductions, constant scrutiny / reviews and ever moving goalposts.

Personally I'd be happy with less money than I get if I had the relief of some kind of security.

Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 6
 

I've been busy.


details in another thread

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My postal ballot is in.

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Posted mine Thursday

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There is an unfolding scandal in Scotland as many people have not had their postal ballots in time for the beginning of the school holidays this weekend. Some councils have been forced to open centres where people can collect ballots in person before they head off wherever they’re going.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02knj0l7xo

The councils are implicitly blaming voters who didn’t apply for their postal ballot until after 7 June, as this is the cut off date between two major tranches of collating/posting out votes to those who applied. Naturally this is an administrative date nobody outside the system can reasonably have known about. Naturally, also, those inside the system have shown remarkably little concern for the fact that the Scottish school holidays commence at the end of June every single year and all of this was entirely foreseeable.

Those councils which have not set up emergency collection points are complacently predicting everyone’s vote will be delivered by today, but anyone who doesn’t get one should phone their local office on Monday. By when many of them will of course already be wherever they were going that necessitated a postal vote in the first place.

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It was flagged almost immediately by the SNP that there was a risk of some Scottish voters being disenfranchised by the UK Government choosing this date.

It’ll be fascinating to see how farcical it becomes as undoubtedly someone losing narrowly will blame this.

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I popped down and picked up an Indian meal earlier, I have been in there every Tuesday for the past 6 or 7 years for a sit-down meal so I know them fairly well.

I started pulling the owners leg about Starmer and his comments about Bangladeshis knowing that the owner is Bangladeshi and a staunch Labour voter.

Not this time, he said after Starmers comments, the mosque he visits are now all voting for the Greens. He did say there are issues now with Bangladeshis taking the preverbial with the visa system.

I told him not to worry as his vote doesn't make any difference anyway, we've had a Labour government running us since 1998, been represented by a Labour MP since 1918 and the borough council has been Labour since 1974. (I think the urban district council before it was Labour too)

Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 6
 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-...ting/104038246

Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 6
 

Whatever

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Somebody has been a bit naughty at the Farage rally tonight…

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I do like the use of “Kremlin talking points” as if as soon as Putin, or anyone associated with the Russian Government or state media it’s automatically wrong and British people can’t be trusted to weigh it against the lies and misinformation that comes from our own politicians and/or media.

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Ooops….

You said the quiet bit out loud.

Strange how you focused on that point, and not

"The five pages identified by ABC Investigations as being part of a coordinated network appear to have little in common"

"ABC's analysis of the five pages found that while they claim to be based in the UK, most of the administrators for each page are based in Nigeria"

"The Nigerian connection is significant because previous online Russian propaganda networks were found to have been operating from Africa."

Probably just a automatic knee-jerk response on your behalf* when anyone points that that perhaps, just perhaps, Russia/Putin may not have our best interests at heart… ;)

*or are you on a bonus scheme, with escalating payments, the more you try to whatabout any negative reporting about the Greater Rus?

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:D

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Not strange when you consider who posted it. ;)

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I'm sure it's just an unfortunate coincidence that Farage supported Putin's position - that the invasion of Ukraine was due to Nato and the EU expanding eastwards - and some of these fake Facebook sites supporting Reform UK. ;)