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[Politics] General Election 2024 - 4th July
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Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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Are we going to have an NSC seat prediction thread?
oldboyroy
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Fingers crossed its 100% HT
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
The Daily Mail is panicking with Sunk warning Labour could be in power until 2055 or beyond. I think he is being optimistic.
Put my postal vote in the post box earlier this evening (just made the collection).
Officially too late for anybody to change my mind with new information or compelling arguments.
Officially too late for anybody to change my mind with new information or compelling arguments.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,346
That is going to be some f***ing compelling argument to make you totally ignore what's happened daily for the last 5 years
Unofficially, it may well have been too late for some considerable length of time.That is going to be some f***ing compelling argument to make you totally ignore what's happened daily for the last 5 years
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
- 12,323
Thousands of people fear they will be unable to vote in the general election with delays, human error and Brexit being blamed for missing postal ballot packs in the UK and abroad.
Clarissa Killwick, a British citizen living in Italy, said she could not trust the post to deliver her vote in time.
Clarissa Killwick, a British citizen living in Italy, said she could not trust the post to deliver her vote in time.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
I feel for Clarissa.
S'hampton Seagull
Well-known member
You can always hand deliver to the returning officer. Where is her commitment? Take a small boat across the channel perhaps if needed.
Since when have voters' minds been made up by new information and compelling arguments?
- Jan 30, 2008
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NorthstandRacoon
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Still 50/50 over Green or Lab, I think Green are far too left for me. Labour have a very centrist manifesto which I agree a lot with, HOWEVER, Green in Brighton is safe and they can push Labour on hugely important green targets which I think are crucial. So I'm a bit torn.
Gabbiano
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I have previously voted green, when I lived in Bristol, not because they were fundamentally the party whose positions most aligned with my views. But because I believed that environmental issues in particular were underrepresented in the debate and the Greens were most likely to voice them.
Bristol West as it was then, was the second most likely Green seat after Brighton Pavilion, so an opportune tactical vote on key issues for a party that I wouldn't necessarily want ruling outright. I think that's perfectly reasonable logic, depending entirely on the tactical options available in your constituency.
Sounds very like what you're considering now, if that's any help.
In the end the Greens finished a fairly distant second to Labour. I suspect the same will happen again this election even though several pollsters are predicting Greens to win Bristol Central.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Having gone through the lowlights of the various party manifesto there is really not much to differentiate between the three traditional main parties, particularly Labour and Conservative - they seem to concur on most things apart from how to tackle illegal immigration and the fate of the railways. I'd hate to be left making a voting decision based on something as stupid as a policy on whether a penis-attached person is allowed in a female space or not. They need to put some proper meat on their economic proposals.
It’s not difficult for me as I remember them saying 14 years ago there is no difference between Labour and the conservative, but certainly things have got much much worse for the majority during the intervening period. So I am happy to take a chance, because the Tories getting re-elected is terrifying.
Indeed. You’d have to be pretty ****ing stupid to make a voting decision on based on that policy.
oldboyroy
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I've had more flyers telling me who not to vote for rather than telling me who to vote for. The only party to knock and speak on doorstep was the party that according to prediction maps have a 99% chance of winning here compared to its rival. The rival have posted at least a dozen leaflets pleading with me not to vote for green, reform and lib dem as it will give the "don't surrender to" party a chance of winning!!!