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Given what we know of quickly postal voters generally act and the level of turnouts that these elections attract it a not too dramatic an assumption to say that getting on for half of all the votes have now been cast.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26520836
"Campaigners came to the house and they asked my mum to vote for them and actually my mum, not being able to read English, she didn't know where to put the cross, so one of the people put the cross in the box for her and said, 'There you go now you can just sign it and we will take it off you.'"
Perhaps the polls should start with the question: Have you voted yet?
"The government also said it had no plans to abolish the current system, saying it had made it easier for many people to vote."
Many people, particularly those who are dead and/or fictional.
I would hazard a guess that it isn't that many, but that is only a wild stab in the dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZYGJOhD0cY
Those all important twitter and facebook stats...
"In terms of Facebook fans, UKIP outperformed all the mainstream political parties put together by a factor of five.
The analysis reveals that UKIP added 41,000 Facebook followers over the past month, while the other major parties lumped together only managed to add 8,000 between them."
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/10/UKIP-social-media-trounces-other-parties
LOL...those HMRC tax proposals, supported by a conservative, were the final straw Mr Morris. There's only so much a poor tory can take before he joins Nigel's mob.
Before today I never saw the point of voting UKIP to get Milli, as I said to many kippers on the site many times.
Now I just don't care.
Otherwise, it is all about an absolute howler during the campaign that would cause voters to change their mind. Which events are few and far between. Although we can always live in hope with UKIP!
*taps nose*
It was a nightmarish 18 months dealing with them, they kept on adding on all sorts of surcharges, interest, late penalties to the original balance (that didn't exist)
I've never dealt with an organisation with a more pigheadedness ability to ignore the facts.
Con: 172,141
Lab: 166,161
UKIP: 121,295
LD: 94,215
SNP: 43,888
Greens: 34,718
I can imagine TSE. And that;s with the balance of the courts in place. Imagine dealing with the revenue without that balance.
Just go over to conhome to see what a catastrophic error Cameron and Osborne are making.
The site is on fire under the article about what Tyrie's comments. And it isn;t kippers, but mainly those who are still loyal. It really beggars belief.
Ukip,a party that reaches where other parties can't.
But, then I thought, Dave needs every vote he can on May 22
Perhaps there's only one thing worse than being talked about, but positive it ain't.
It was the same pre-2010 and for a couple of years thereafter with the Tories.
The whining from the Kippers would be funny to watch.
My initial reading when these proposals were first mooted, they could take the money from your account, if you fail to contact/ignore HMRC.
In shocking news, I voted Tory.
Perhaps An Independence from Europe is already half way to winning the Euros and Mike Nattrass a certainty for the TV leader debates?
Voting UKIP makes it more likelier that Ed Balls become Chancellor.
Voting UKIP is unpatriotic and seditious, and it is a real shame we abolished the crime of sedition a few years ago (it was done by the unpatriotic Labour party)
I'd probably not change my mind about UKIP anyway, but the tax nonsense doesn't endear me to the party.
Also, 'more likelier' is horrendous English.
I used the word pre-prepared in an email this week!
Pre-prepared is a horrendous Brownian tautology.
Being Euro-sceptic doesn't win you general elections,we tested that theory to destruction in 2001 and 2005.
I don't really like postal voting, but if people don't want to bother with the campaign but still exercise their vote, they can without postal votes as well, it's just harder and involves ignoring information for longer as you cannot get in early.
And I've voted in every election that I've been eligible for.
"Hello, my name is Mr Eagles, and I'm an alcoholi.... oh wait wrong speech"
The originally planned to have the wedding this weekend, which would have meant I missed Eurovision for only the second time in twenty years.
Fortunately the venue was booked today, so they moved it a week.
I have to admit, I was surprised to learn that some people think my musical tastes are terrible, and that I must double as the man in charge of the music at Guantánamo Bay
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124690400002401641
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/united-arab-emirates/entry-requirements
North East 9:46pm
Eastern England 11:10pm
Yorks & Humber 11:29pm
Wales 11:47pm
London 00:45am
East Midlands 00:57am
South West 01:23am
South East 01:26am
West Midlands 02:00am
North West 02:09am
Scotland 02:18am*
*unofficial, without the Western Isles. Don't know when the official result was declared.
If this pattern is repeated, it's going to be a long night for the LibDems...
Last year, 160 American babies were named Khaleesi.
http://www.news24.com/Elections/Results#map=live
I am afraid your grasp of the realities of politics are about as good as your command of the English language this week Eagles.
This morning, like most other fathers apparently, I drove down to the store to buy a card or two.
It was funny to watch fathers with their young kids - who seemed to want to be doing anything but this - going through row after row of cards with their sacharine sentiments, then choosing a balloon or a bunch of flowers - or both. New this year - to me at least - talking balloons.
If Gen. "Stormin'" Norman Schwartzkopf had been there, he would have undoubtedly called it "Schlock and awww".
However I am above this mawkish sentimentality - I bought two cards plus one from my dog Heidi, and a talking duck.
"It is traditional for the best man to tell a few gags at the Bride's expense. But I'm not a traditionalist. You're getting 5 minutes each on the merits of AV and the prospects for Scottish Independence."
Labour: 29
Lib Dem: 29
Green: 29
UKIP: 27
Conservative: 24
TUSC: 21
Independent: 4
No Description: 1
The Tories messed up their nomination in Hillsborough by using the same proposer and seconder as UKIP, who had already got their nomination accepted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
I nearly put in a line about "that memorable weekend in Wrexham"
(Say it out loud)
http://www.jocox.org.uk/?page_id=5
I have prepared a PBC buzzer in the style of the QI claxon for when this happens.
Jo Cox — Mike Wood (Batley & Spen)
Louise Haigh — Meg Munn (Sheffield Heeley)
Marie Rimmer — Shaun Woodward (St Helens South)
Maggie Throup — Jessica Lee (Erewash)
Ruth Smeeth — Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North)
Kate Hollern — Jack Straw (Blackburn)
Helen Hayes — Tessa Jowell (Dulwich & West Norwood)
Why do I get the feeling I've started the Eurovision drinking far too early and am likely to end up swearing at people in the small hours? Or in Bournemouth.
It is plainly a loss of sovereignty if, instead of one of the Queen's courts of justice having the power to render and yield final determination, that power is given to a foreign tribunal. At present, if we refuse to comply with our obligations under the EAW in international law, the only remedy the aggrieved state has is diplomatic protest. When the Court of Justice assumes jurisdiction, it will be able to compel us to comply. The foreign state will have a remedy in domestic law. That is a diminution of sovereignty. One of the most important statutes that established the sovereignty of the Crown in Parliament was passed in 1533. There is a reason why it was called 'an Act in restraint of appeals'...
Let me be clear. I do not favour the United Kingdom remaining a party to the Framework Decision, and strongly oppose the government's decision to opt back in to the EAW. For as long as we are a party to it, however, I will support anything that allows Parliament to moderate its application to the United Kingdom. The government is proposing to abolish Parliament's powers in that regard.
You argue that a supranational body is needed to ensure that the parties comply with the Framework Decision. Do you really believe that the federalist court in Luxembourg is more likely than one of the Queen's courts to give a true interpretation of the Framework Decision? I am certainly not convinced. In any event, you conspicuously ignore the point that our extradition arrangements with category two territories function perfectly well without 'international arbitration', and any one who suggested such a tribunal would rightly be considered mad.