12-11-2019, 21:47
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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You don't register in multiple areas so you can vote in person wherever you happen to be staying on polling day, you register at your normal address and apply for a postal or proxy vote if you won't be there in person on the day).
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Ahem
https://www.electoralcommission.org....voter/students
The bit about local elections is interesting. Didn't know that!
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12-11-2019, 22:19
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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most north hate Boris Johnson with a passion he wont win many at all up here but I as said lots of times we got worst choice in british history this election
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So would you rather a Corbyn government that likely won't deliver Brexit?
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12-11-2019, 23:02
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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13-11-2019, 07:55
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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So would you rather a Corbyn government that likely won't deliver Brexit?
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Labour can't win but the Tories can be stopped from having 5 years to destroy what's left of the NHS and welfare state. A hung parliament would mean none of these Muppets get complete control.
As for Brexit, an irrelevance, the climate should be our no 1 concern if we had our heads screwed on.
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13-11-2019, 08:11
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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Labour can't win but the Tories can be stopped from having 5 years to destroy what's left of the NHS and welfare state. A hung parliament would mean none of these Muppets get complete control.
As for Brexit, an irrelevance, the climate should be our no 1 concern if we had our heads screwed on.
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This former Tory cabinet minister certainly does not want a Tory majority..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50398115
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g...dent-xjz7sj79p (Paywall)
And just for political balance here is someone who in Scotland was the Labour party’s former minister Tom Harris, who was the MP for Glasgow South and has revealed he is voting Tory warning that Jeremy Corbyn is a threat to the UK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/latest/index.html#news
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...plan-live-news
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13-11-2019, 09:18
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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That's a thoroughly disingenuous piece of reporting, that glosses right over the key fact that the professor actively encouraged students to register to vote both at their home and term-time addresses. Suddenly she's shock-horror-aghast that this has been interpreted as her inciting students to break the law by voting twice (how else would you take it? You don't register in multiple areas so you can vote in person wherever you happen to be staying on polling day, you register at your normal address and apply for a postal or proxy vote if you won't be there in person on the day).
If she really didn't see how her words naturally read, then what is she doing being a professor? Clarity of communication is a basic prerequisite of undergraduate essays which presumably she marks regularly as part of her job.
Obviously it suits the Grauniad which I'm quite sure has been scouring the news wires looking for evidence of intimidation or violence in this campaign, given the fraught few months of politics we have just had. Their sub-heading "Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas" is an outright lie, as the quoted objections to her Tweet make clear. She was not fulfilling the university's obligation to encourage registration, she was giving, at best, poor advice, and at worst, outright incitement to commit electoral fraud.
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It's perfectly legal to register to vote in two locations and decide where to vote closer to the time - https://fullfact.org/online/register-vote-twice/
Carrie Paechter certainly didn't encourage people to vote in two locations in her original tweet on the subject - https://twitter.com/CarriePaechter/s...617034754?s=20 Maybe there's somewhere else where she advocated electoral fraud but I haven't found anything yet
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He's currently my MP though I would guess not for much longer. He was parachuted into the constituency in 2005. The new Conservative candidate is also being parachuted in from Essex County Council much to consternation in our local Facebook groups. He'll win though...
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13-11-2019, 12:33
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13-11-2019, 13:50
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So what specifically in detail could he or anybody else have done afterwards? Labour and the Lib Dems make a fuss, but don't seem to have any answers as to what they would've done.
I've seen the flooding described as the worst in living memory. Not something that can be planned for. The primary disaster planning is by county councils. Maybe their frosty welcome should be reserved for those Labour councils that they keep voting for.
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13-11-2019, 14:00
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Its not surprising as both are not liked or trusted by the vast majority of the populace.
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So what specifically in detail could he or anybody else have done afterwards? Labour and the Lib Dems make a fuss, but don't seem to have any answers as to what they would've done.
I've seen the flooding described as the worst in living memory. Not something that can be planned for. The primary disaster planning is by county councils. Maybe their frosty welcome should be reserved for those Labour councils that they keep voting for.
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One of the clear answers to all this flooding whether its now or in the future is for the major parties to have a good future flooding strategy instead of their usual can't organise a piss up in a brewery type strategy which has failed time after time..
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13-11-2019, 14:26
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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Its not surprising as both are not liked or trusted by the vast majority of the populace.
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One of the clear answers to all this flooding whether its now or in the future is for the major parties to have a good future flooding strategy instead of their usual can't organise a piss up in a brewery type strategy which has failed time after time..
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There ARE plans set out, but locally. After all each area will be different.
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Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs)
LLFAs are county councils and unitary authorities. They lead in managing local flood risks (i.e. risks of flooding from surface water, ground water and ordinary (smaller) watercourses). This includes ensuring co-operation between the Risk Management Authorities in their area. Under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, LLFAs are required to::
- prepare and maintain a strategy for local flood risk management in their areas, coordinating views and activity with other local bodies and communities through public consultation and scrutiny, and delivery planning. They must consult Risk Management Authorities and the public about their strategy.
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Still no details from anybody of what specific actions could have been carried out in the past few days, that would've helped the situation. Just a nonsense "we would've handled it better".
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13-11-2019, 14:52
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Quote from the Express:An internal Labour Party report has revealed plans to increase fun duty and company car tax, along with mandatory road pricing and charges to park vehicles at work. Motorway speed limits will also be reduced in order for cars to travel more slowly and pollute less. And all planned road improvements will be scrapped too.
Mr Corbyn is hoping this will cut 60 percent of road trips within ten years.
But the Tories have warned a tax rise this could hit struggling motorists the hardest.
This is because the cost of petrol and diesel would go up by 13p plus inflation over the five years they would be in power.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Corbyn is coming for your car. It is now clear that Labour have secret plans to clobber hardworking people with a barrage of tax hikes on their family car, that would leave families with less money in their pockets."
“Labour’s extreme economic policies would be a disaster for drivers."
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Well that's the motorists vote lost.
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13-11-2019, 15:36
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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Well that's the motorists vote lost.
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So what's your solution to increasingly jammed roads and poor air quality?
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13-11-2019, 15:44
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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So what's your solution to increasingly jammed roads and poor air quality?
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I don't know, shall we go ask them in China? 
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13-11-2019, 15:49
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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So what's your solution to increasingly jammed roads and poor air quality?
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*different shirts available 
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