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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
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« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2012, 06:42:41 PM »
24 in 6 hours at polling station in same building where I was on a course
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2012, 06:45:24 PM »
Quote from: chesterfieldchris on November 15, 2012, 06:33:18 PM
Its a complete farce and an embarassment.

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Most customers or people i've spoke to haven't got a clue what its all about and won't bother voting.

Seen about 8 polling stations on my travels today. Not seen 1 person go into, or come out of, one.
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2012, 07:27:27 PM »
Just voted, and on the sheet where they check you off the only two voters were me and 'er indoors...

Another government farce! Talk about p*ss-ups and breweries...
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« Reply #34 on: November 16, 2012, 12:05:00 AM »
Are the early results in?

:) :) :)
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2012, 11:22:53 AM »
one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20354044

Nowhere has reported a turn out in excess of 20% yet. A lot are reporting a high number of spoilt ballot papers where people are scribbling waste of time or none of the above on them.

If you held an opinion poll prior to a general elections who thinks less than 20% would say that law and order was a high priority to them?
Someone somewhere got this whole thing seriously wrong.
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« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2012, 11:26:54 AM »
>> Someone somewhere got this whole thing seriously wrong.

Or it was planned this way by the govenment...

They are either crap or devious (conspiracy theorists take note)  :-?
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2012, 06:15:08 PM »
So, turnout very low, but the Labour guy seems to have got double the votes the Tory guy got.
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« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2012, 07:04:25 PM »
A polling station in Wales had zero.

Added bonus of turnout of 20% or less: let the government now try telling unions they don't have a mandate for industrial action when it's carried on a similar turnout  :))
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2012, 07:47:44 PM »
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Independent was the best candidate in my view.  We've now got a commissioner that's been voted in on political soundbites which refer to items he has absolutely no control over what so ever.


Personally, I totally agree with you  >:(
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« Reply #42 on: November 16, 2012, 08:32:43 PM »
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3ce2d33a-2fc4-11e2-ae7d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2CQ3fM7l0

Love this reply to the article. Bottom ish of page.

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manticore | November 16 5:32pm
 
Policing cannot be political. If it is political, it is no longer policing: it is the management of political factions. If policing is determined by political ideas, it is the rule of one faction over another. This has no legitimacy as policing is discipline by consent. Without consent, policing is tyranny.

Policing is - or should be - about the rule of law, which by definition is above politics. That policing should respond to local concerns, is fine: but why does this involve party politics? There are other mechanisms.

This policy deserves to fail.

Thats what I think !!
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2012, 09:32:18 PM »
Quote from: Pete on November 16, 2012, 06:15:08 PM
So, turnout very low, but the Labour guy seems to have got double the votes the Tory guy got.
How can that be possible, if the Labour guy got fifteen?  ;D
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Re: Anyone voting on Thursday?
« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2012, 10:45:33 PM »
1st vote
Alan Charles      50,028
Simon Spencer  27,690
David Gale        18,097
Rod Hutton        17,093

2nd vote
Charles 50028 + 7220 2nd pref  57248
Spencer 27690 + 8779 2nd pref 36469

Interesting that nearly 20,000 of the people who voted either for the UKIP or independant candidate didn't express a 2nd preference.
 
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