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Does that make BOTH the Conservatives and Labour hypocrites?

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Possibly all polititians :D

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Agreed on that. :D

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I have already said the link with DUP and Terrorists is weak, the group DUP was only tied to, UR, for only a year, was ON our side, but they did not kill anybody, they just armed themselves, illegally during the IRA uprising era, we all know the IRA did kill people, big difference !

There are concerns that many University Students were able to vote TWICE in the General Election. There are some parents claiming their son/daughter was able to vote TWICE.

A Petition has appeared demanding an investigation be carried out because some Constituencies results were extremely tight.

https://www.change.org/p/uk-electora...cation=minibar

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Students can register to vote both at home and at their place of study, nothing wrong with that. Of course they can only vote one one place in a general election (bizarrely in local elections they can vote in both). Think some Tory parents are grasping at straws... People moan when students don't vote , now they're moaning that they have had the cheek to vote !

As for the DUP and terrorist links there are many. Some are being very two faced about this given the amount of grief Corbyn got for doing the same thing as the British Govt. was doing at the time.

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If a hard Brexit means leaving the single market? Then over 80% of the country voted for it.

Leaving the single market is both Tory and Labour policy.

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When I was at uni I could have voted in two places as I had cards for both home and uni, too far to travel between 2 safe seats though to be worth it. Would be really hard to spot that though and could work both ways though most students will tend to the left. It's only us older folk that have things to tax that start leaning more rightwards.

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Totally misrepresented what was said. :rolleyes:

Nothing wrong with Students voting, that's good, but they have the same entitlement as everyone else, one vote ONLY. It's nothing to do with having any cheek FFS.

Corbyn has not done the same as British Government, far from it.

Other issue here is, he's prancing about along with his Momentum cohorts, like he's made a real difference. While he needs bringing down a peg or two and reminded no-one won overall.

Tories won heaps of more seats than he did. But if there is weight to this cheating of university students voting twice claim and thousands of students exploited this, then it adds to the question about the validity of the overall General Election results, there were many seats Labour took that had very low majorities.

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Labour Party policy is to end freedom of movement. Absent an unprecedented concession from the EU, membership of the single market is tied to freedom of movement.

I'm not sure what planet you've been on for the last 30 years but Corbyn has always been against the EU. His performance in the referendum campaign demonstrates that whatever he may say to the contrary, he is still against it.

We are leaving the EU by the only route available. Out of the single market, out of the customs union, out of the free movement agreement.

There is no such thing as hard or soft Brexit. There is either leaving the EU, or not leaving it. Retaining Freedom of movement (no immigration control), Prevention of independent trade deals (the customs union) and supervision of all of the above by the ECJ while surrendering our seats in the Council and the Parliament (what some call "soft" Brexit) amount to *not* leaving the EU at all.

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Chris, Mr K is not on any other planet, he is in that great Egyptian river, they call De-Nile. ;)

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By voting twice she probably means in both leadership elections

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Especially considering she said people then said she had killed they killed the labour partt

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Maybe so but I'm seeing a handful of tweets from people who appear to be students bragging they got to vote twice in this election.

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Report them to the police, it's illegal

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I dont understand why its allowed (double registration).

Surely they can just use postal votes if they are away from home.

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I think you are clutching at straws if you think Labour did as well as they did because of students voting twice ..

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I don't often agree with Chris :) but he is spot on: Corbyn (and this is one of the main reasons I did not vote for him) is that he was a pathetic leader of the Remain campaign. In fact, I would go as far to say that I think he actually voted Leave ..

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I would say their associations with Protestant terrorists leave them open to justified criticism:

No DUP apology for Ulster Resistance, despite gun-running leading to murders

DUP chief Arlene Foster met UDA boss days after loyalist murder in Bangor