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Post by bernythedolt on Jul 5, 2024 14:00:48 GMT
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 5, 2024 14:05:30 GMT
why do we have nonsense seats such as Na h-Eileanan an Iar www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/S1400002721,000 electors ( not votes ) the winner had far less votes than many majorities the standard is 73393 and all should be within 5% I can understand Anglesea and the isle of Wight etc but this is just so small well I'd suggest it comes down to boundary considerations i.e. trying to at least achieve some idea of territorial identity. There are 5 seats which are exempt from the normal 'within 5% of quota'. They are all island seats. Na h-Eileanan an Iar (formely Western Isles), Shetlands, Orkney and Isle of Wight (by way of having two seats). I'm not sure its quite a 'nonsense' seat.
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Post by adrianc on Jul 5, 2024 14:07:21 GMT
Too soon...? A stereotype that's probably more likely to vote Reform...
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Post by michaelc on Jul 5, 2024 15:03:39 GMT
on Basildon, who did they declare for first time or we don't know ? According to that article a ballot paper from a neighbouring constituency got into the count. You'd think they'd be different colours at least.
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Post by adrianc on Jul 5, 2024 15:13:04 GMT
on Basildon, who did they declare for first time or we don't know ? According to that article a ballot paper from a neighbouring constituency got into the count. You'd think they'd be different colours at least. They didn't. They only give numbers (and name a winner) when it's official. Yeh, total bollock-drop, given that no papers should leave the polling centres. The most likely way it makes sense is an in-person drop of a postal vote. The other is cross-contamination between the two constituency counts in the same venue (Thurrock Civic Centre), which SHOULD be impossible. Both sides of my county are counted in the same place, the city leisure centre - that bit's not unusual. But they should be utterly separate...
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Post by michaelc on Jul 5, 2024 15:13:11 GMT
Too soon...? I'm just looking at that and thinking how the heck can any one person look after 6 kids. More on topic (after the chuckle), do the stats bear out anecdotal reality that our next generations are coming from either poor and often badly educated families or from 1st/2nd generation immigration? Those who are successful in life seem discouraged perhaps due to the completely lack of any will to have children. I contrast that to Ukraine where virtually every family has 1,2 or 3 kids and kids are celebrated. Here its considered "emancipation" (used just recently in this forum for that purpose) for couples not to have them. The freedom for the human race to die out? Or the freedom to have kids much older in life or via IVF vastly increasing the risk of autism and other problems.
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Post by mostlywrong on Jul 5, 2024 15:48:33 GMT
Michaelc wrote: "I'm just looking at that and thinking how the heck can any one person look after 6 kids."
At the risk of stepping in when I really should keep my nose well out...
Do you know that was a spoof based on a television character?
MW
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Post by benaj on Jul 5, 2024 15:51:46 GMT
There might be a generation of minority of “fatherless” children from immigrants because their mums were “married” and got dumped after gaining visas or whatever.
I don’t know who they will vote for when they reach voting age.
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Post by agent69 on Jul 5, 2024 16:45:23 GMT
Michaelc wrote: "I'm just looking at that and thinking how the heck can any one person look after 6 kids."
At the risk of stepping in when I really should keep my nose well out...
Do you know that was a spoof based on a television character?
MW
Channel 188 on my Sky box is the most politically incorrect channel out there. The content varies, but typically from about 9pm you get:
- Little Britian, with the aforementioned Ms Pollard, along with Daffyd (the only gay in the village), followed by
- Till Death Us Do Part / In Sickness and In Health - Alf Garnett at his best, followed by
- It Aint Half Hot Mum, with the wonderful Windsor Davies who constantly calls the concert party members a 'load of poofs', and berates the Indian Punkahwaller for not Punkahering fast enough.
That's what I call proper telly
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Post by benaj on Jul 5, 2024 17:06:21 GMT
I definitely missing “proper” telly programs. I watch too many contents from streaming platforms and forgot about all those UK “goodies”.
All my TVs have aerial / “cable” / sat dish / TV box unplugged.
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Post by agent69 on Jul 5, 2024 17:20:55 GMT
Just looking at the odds to be next Conservative leader. Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat lead the pack, Nigel Farage is 10:1
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Post by keitha on Jul 5, 2024 17:26:57 GMT
Michaelc wrote: "I'm just looking at that and thinking how the heck can any one person look after 6 kids."
At the risk of stepping in when I really should keep my nose well out...
Do you know that was a spoof based on a television character?
MW
Channel 188 on my Sky box is the most politically incorrect channel out there. The content varies, but typically from about 9pm you get:
- Little Britian, with the aforementioned Ms Pollard, along with Daffyd (the only gay in the village), followed by
- Till Death Us Do Part / In Sickness and In Health - Alf Garnett at his best, followed by
- It Aint Half Hot Mum, with the wonderful Windsor Davies who constantly calls the concert party members a 'load of poofs', and berates the Indian Punkahwaller for not Punkahering fast enough.
That's what I call proper telly
The PunjahWaller being a blacked up Michael Bates
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Post by agent69 on Jul 5, 2024 17:56:02 GMT
Channel 188 on my Sky box is the most politically incorrect channel out there. The content varies, but typically from about 9pm you get:
- Little Britian, with the aforementioned Ms Pollard, along with Daffyd (the only gay in the village), followed by
- Till Death Us Do Part / In Sickness and In Health - Alf Garnett at his best, followed by
- It Aint Half Hot Mum, with the wonderful Windsor Davies who constantly calls the concert party members a 'load of poofs', and berates the Indian Punkahwaller for not Punkahering fast enough.
That's what I call proper telly
The PunjahWaller being a blacked up Michael Bates The PunkahWaller was played by an Indian actor called Barbar Bhatti. Michael Bates (who was the original 3rd man alongside Compo and Clegg in the first 2 series of Last Of The Summer Wine) was the concert party's Indian bearer.
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Post by benaj on Jul 5, 2024 17:58:56 GMT
Just looking at the odds to be next Conservative leader. Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat lead the pack, Nigel Farage is 10:1 Are they wearing the traditional Conservative colour enough?
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Post by bernythedolt on Jul 5, 2024 23:33:24 GMT
Fascinating result in Wales. FPTP can be a cruel mistress! - Labour's diminished poll of 37% still wins 27 Westminster seats of the 32 here.
- Cons 18% and Reform 17%, between them polling almost the same as Labour, win 0 seats.
- Plaid Cymru's 15% tally, lower than either Cons or Reform, still garners them 4 seats.
- LD's tiny 6.5% share, barely a third of the Cons vote or Reform vote, still manages to win them a seat.
Geographically, the Plaid win looks like they've taken a massive chunk of the map of Wales - at first glance it appears something approaching 50%. They're now bragging of a huge mandate (which is mostly imaginary of course). Look for lots of noise from Rhun ap Iorwerth, going forward. |
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