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The voting over here was very interesting. You just rock up with a name and an address and they tick you off the list!

My wife and i were saying how that would totally be abused in SA, in fact, i expect that it's abused over here in the bigger towns and cities...
 
millennia said:
The voting over here was very interesting. You just rock up with a name and an address and they tick you off the list!

My wife and i were saying how that would totally be abused in SA, in fact, i expect that it's abused over here in the bigger towns and cities...
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They are piloting voting with ID in one of the areas, but the Brits dont like the idea. Not sure what will come of it.
 
zippy said:
They are piloting voting with ID in one of the areas, but the Brits dont like the idea. Not sure what will come of it.
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It's necessary tbh. Saw an article recently about how some people in the Muslim communities have been abusing their right to cover up their faces by voting multiple times.
 
So I see Theresa May is interpreting the predictably awful local election results (they were pretty bad for Jezza the Messiah as well) as an indication to "get on with it". Poor sod, she really doesn't have the faintest idea.

I guess there will be no leadership speculation until the even more awful EU elections are out of the way on the 23rd of May and that will be even more awful since the Brexit party weren't even involved in the local elections. I've been very impressed with the Brexit Party's social media operations. They are killing it. They have candidates from the left and right of the political spectrum and from all walks of life.
 
Theresa May Believes She Can Now Do A Brexit Deal With Jeremy Corbyn

Theresa May is optimistic she is close to striking a Brexit deal with Jeremy Corbyn involving a customs arrangement and “dynamic alignment” on workers’ rights, finally breaking the months-long impasse at Westminster – but at significant political cost to the two main parties.

As both the Conservatives and Labour lick their wounds following bruising local election results yesterday, government sources are increasingly confident that an agreement will be reached with the opposition over a Brexit deal that can be put to a vote in the House of Commons.

But both Brexiteer Tory backbenchers and Remain-supporting Labour MPs urged their respective leaders not to use the local election results as an excuse for an agreement. Downing Street believes it will manage to do a deal with Corbyn but is worried Labour will not want to back a deal before the European elections.

In the last week government ministers and officials presented Labour with a new offer on a customs arrangement that would effectively see the UK remain in the key aspects of a customs union with the EU, sources familiar with the talks told BuzzFeed News.

The proposed customs arrangement would ultimately meet the World Trade Organisation’s definition of a customs union, including a common external tariff that would see the UK apply the same tariffs to imported goods as the EU after Brexit.

May is also set to make Labour what one government source described as a “generous” offer on workers’ rights, which would mean UK at a minimum follows new Brussels rules on workers’ rights after it leaves the EU.

The offer would be tantamount to the government accepting in full Labour’s demands during the last few weeks of the negotiations, a source familiar with the talks said.

Multiple government sources told BuzzFeed News this weekend that they expect a deal to be reached with Labour, but are less confident on when it will happen. Three weeks ago a Number 10 insider told this website May would find an agreement with Corbyn “at any cost”.
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Chris_the_Brit said:
So I see Theresa May is interpreting the predictably awful local election results (they were pretty bad for Jezza the Messiah as well) as an indication to "get on with it". Poor sod, she really doesn't have the faintest idea.

I guess there will be no leadership speculation until the even more awful EU elections are out of the way on the 23rd of May and that will be even more awful since the Brexit party weren't even involved in the local elections. I've been very impressed with the Brexit Party's social media operations. They are killing it. They have candidates from the left and right of the political spectrum and from all walks of life.
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Haven't really been following this, but a casual glance says the Lib Dems are the biggest winners from the Brexit cluster ****.
 
vigras rojara said:
Haven't really been following this, but a casual glance says the Lib Dems are the biggest winners from the Brexit cluster ****.
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Many of the areas in the local elections were in Conservative strongholds, the only serious opposition locally are Lib Dems. Labour hardly exist in rural England. Brexit party didn't put up any candidates in local elections (they're a new party, it was too early for them). I think many Brexiteers either didn't bother to vote or spoilt their vote. Lib Dems are also well known in the UK as the 'protest vote', they have no serious chance of forming a government due to the first-past-the-post system used. Honestly I'd even consider voting for a Lib Dem if I thought the councillor was a good councilor regardless of their position on Brexit. Councillors are largely harmless in terms of influencing national government policy. Or as someone funnier than I said on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1124184132307828736

The Lib Dems are still polling miserably on national polls - around 10%, so I'd be cautious in over-interpreting the results.
 
The Voice said:
It's necessary tbh. Saw an article recently about how some people in the Muslim communities have been abusing their right to cover up their faces by voting multiple times.
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They must have multiple ID’s on the voters roll because your name gets marked on the roll when you arrive, or they vote as someone else. It’s not possible for the same ID to vote twice.

Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I always take these articles with a pinch of salt, given who publishes them. Also, covered faces amongst Muslims in the UK is not as common as people think. And since they are more likely to have voted labour and given labour’s performance I doesn’t appear to be significant.
 
Remarkable coincidence.

‘Islamophobic’ activists trade in Tories for Nigel Farage

A raft of members suspended by the Conservatives have shifted their loyalty to the Brexit Party

A dozen former Conservative candidates and members who had been suspended from the party because of Islamophobia are campaigning for the Brexit Party, it can be revealed.

A dossier passed to The Sunday Times reveals that activists supporting Nigel Farage’s new party have promoted bombing mosques, deporting imams and killing Muslims.
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Oh dear, multiculturalism is breeding extremists from all sides :eek:. Why is this surprising to some:X3::ROFL:?
 
Techne said:
Because... Humans and human nature don't conform to BS SJW ideals.
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I suppose human nature is to want things to be very similar to how one has been brought up. Having foreign customs shoved in your face, especially in what should be your personal space, can be very trying for even the most patient people.

However it is to be noted that once slavery and the beating of women as punishment were acceptable in Britain. SJW may be pushing the norms, but it's not without precedence.
 
Techne said:
Oh dear, multiculturalism is breeding extremists from all sides :eek:. Why is this surprising to some:X3::ROFL:?
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You have it backwards. It's not multiculturalism breeding extremists, it's nationalism and separatism breeding extremists. :rolleyes:
 
C4Cat said:
You have it backwards. It's not multiculturalism breeding extremists, it's nationalism and separatism breeding extremists. :rolleyes:
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But nationalism and separatism are a direct consequence of enforced multiculturalism.

It's difficult to be accepting of culture that's not your own, this is because it's human to want the security of familiarity in your own space.
 
Brexit Party leading by miles... :thumbsup:. Tories only on 10% hahahaha! That's what you get when your voters lose trust in you and you seel them a completely fake Brexit! Behind the dumbass Lib Dems and the watermelon party ("red on the inside, green on the outside"). :ROFL:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1127720320067149825

Great party political broadcast, widely praised from across the political spectrum. Brexit Party literally running rings around the stale, political establishment with their digital operation.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1127515829472514048
 
phaktza said:
But nationalism and separatism are a direct consequence of enforced multiculturalism.

It's difficult to be accepting of culture that's not your own, this is because it's human to want the security of familiarity in your own space.
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Multiculturalism isn't enforced though. It's just the reality of how things are - the world is full of many varied cultures who have to share this planet. We live in a more globalised world today, sure, with fast, easy travel, the internet, ongoing global trade and a history of conquest but nationalism and separatism existed long before that was a reality.
 
C4Cat said:
Multiculturalism isn't enforced though. It's just the reality of how things are - the world is full of many varied cultures who have to share this planet. We live in a more globalised world today, sure, with fast, easy travel, the internet, ongoing global trade and a history of conquest but nationalism and separatism existed long before that was a reality.
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Which ever way you swing it it's de facto enforcement, in the absence of any legislation. Nationalism has always been about "preserving our way of life" in response to foreign influence.

In no no way do I condone these close minded views and one day the world will catch up. Politicians cannot, however, expect everyone to be on board by cause they've decided it is so. Time will be the great equaliser and this will take... Er... Time.
 
C4Cat said:
You have it backwards. It's not multiculturalism breeding extremists, it's nationalism and separatism breeding extremists. :rolleyes:
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Multiculturalism (forced integration) resulted in the rise of incumbent (indigenous) Nationalism.
The problem being that the crowd who were let in didn't integrate because the gaps in religion and culture were too wide, preferring to isolate themselves in pockets, which then became radicalized. This pee'd off the locals, as this group ended up being doll squatters and benefits eaters and not contributors. Now the locals want them out!, and to put a halt to further immigration of non-integrating hostiles and parasites.

Brexit is the British people's BIG middle finger to globalization.
 
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