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Mick 12-06-2017 20:40

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I don't think I am clutching at straws at all, voting twice is illegal. If a large portion of them, i.e. thousands of them did so, this could potentially have serious implications because in some constituencies, the result was very tight.

Osem 12-06-2017 21:22

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35903104)
I don't think I am clutching at straws at all, voting twice is illegal. If a large portion of them, i.e. thousands of them did so, this could potentially have serious implications because in some constituencies, the result was very tight.

Nah, we shouldn't be at all concerned about this sort of thing if it benefits Labour. Now if it were the Tories who were the beneficiaries, then of course we should expect protests in the streets and the defacing of war memorials... :rolleyes:

Mr K 12-06-2017 21:31

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35903104)
I don't think I am clutching at straws at all, voting twice is illegal. If a large portion of them, i.e. thousands of them did so, this could potentially have serious implications because in some constituencies, the result was very tight.

It's Fake News Mick ;), and sour grapes.

If anybody did vote twice, how do you know it wasn't Tory ?

1andrew1 12-06-2017 21:38

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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 35903111)
It's Fake News Mick ;), and sour grapes.

If anybody did vote twice, how do you know it wasn't Tory ?

As I understand it, according to my independent non-MSM research, the double-voters were the richer Conservative-leaning students whose parents bought them a car to both facilitate a swift exit at the weekends to the country retreat for a spot of faux fox-hunting and a bit of double-voting every time there is an election. :D

GrimUpNorth 12-06-2017 21:41

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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 35903111)
It's Fake News Mick ;), and sour grapes.

If anybody did vote twice, how do you know it wasn't Tory ?

Because everybody knows that Conservative is another word for honest and trustworthy ;)

Cheers

Dave

Gary L 12-06-2017 22:15

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Now we know why the Conservatives won. 2 votes for every 1!

Mick 12-06-2017 22:44

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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 35903111)
It's Fake News Mick ;), and sour grapes.

If anybody did vote twice, how do you know it wasn't Tory ?

It's not sour grapes when the party I support is still in power, still won the most seats. :rolleyes:

ianch99 12-06-2017 22:56

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35903124)
It's not sour grapes when the party I support is still in power, still won the most seats. :rolleyes:

Still in power because of the DUPlicate voting ;)

Mick 12-06-2017 23:12

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Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 35903126)
Still in power because of the DUPlicate voting ;)

Nope. Students voting twice more than likely went Labour given the carrots they had dangling over her heads with uncosted promises.

Hugh 12-06-2017 23:34

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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35903120)
Now we know why the Conservatives won. 2 votes for every 1!

Well, you forecast wrong for the last three General Elections.

Good to see you still around - you disappeared for quite a while the last time you got it wrong...

TheDaddy 13-06-2017 02:47

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35903129)
Nope. Students voting twice more than likely went Labour given the carrots they had dangling over her heads with uncosted promises.

I thought it was the tories that treated the electorate with utter contempt by not bothering to cost their manifesto, they didn't even think enough of us to bother making stuff up.

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35903132)
Well, you forecast wrong for the last three General Elections.

Good to see you still around - you disappeared for quite a while the last time you got it wrong...

He was right about Dave being gone, that's the main thing even if his timing was slightly out

Mick 13-06-2017 04:22

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35903135)
I thought it was the tories that treated the electorate with utter contempt by not bothering to cost their manifesto, they didn't even think enough of us to bother making stuff up.

You thought wrong. Labour were the ones making all these unaffordable promises and bankrupting the country in the process, if heaven forbid, they came to power.

So when Tories come back to power, when Labour loses elections, Tories have to invoke austerity measures to pay off the messy finances Labour always leaves in its wake. Labour are good at leaving notes too, saying there is no money left. :rolleyes:

TheDaddy 13-06-2017 05:51

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35903137)
You thought wrong. Labour were the ones making all these unaffordable promises and bankrupting the country in the process, if heaven forbid, they came to power.

Or to put it another way, no I didn't think wrong at all

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a7755971.html

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So when Tories come back to power, when Labour loses elections, Tories have to invoke austerity measures to pay off the messy finances Labour always leaves in its wake. Labour are good at leaving notes too, saying there is no money left. :rolleyes:
Please, that's what they want you to believe, the worst of Maggie thatchers privatisations and cuts came at the end of her reign and whilst we're at it look at the mess john major left the countries finances in, that was as big a car crash as any.

alanbjames 13-06-2017 07:10

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If the Tories were so good at making cuts to pay off the deficit why are we now borrowing more than when Labour was in power?

That was all Osbournes doing, phaps he needs lessons in Maths.

ianch99 13-06-2017 07:50

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:)

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