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The EU Referendum: Polling Day
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Ahh right no idea then.
Of course experience. Oh Man. #remainuined.
Soldato
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Whilst I voted 'Leave', I'm getting a bit embarrassed by my fellow voters pushing this Pencilgate line. They're forgetting that....
A) It's a lot cheaper to buy 200k pencils than 200k ball-point pens.
B) Pen marked papers can also be 'corrected' without spoiling the ballot paper.
C) Pencils have been used is all previous elections.
D) It's far easier to pay one guy to switch a box of real papers with pre-filled ones than it is to pay a team of people and arm them with erasers to modify actual ones..
A) It's a lot cheaper to buy 200k pencils than 200k ball-point pens.
B) Pen marked papers can also be 'corrected' without spoiling the ballot paper.
C) Pencils have been used is all previous elections.
D) It's far easier to pay one guy to switch a box of real papers with pre-filled ones than it is to pay a team of people and arm them with erasers to modify actual ones..
Come on and slam and welcome to Germanistan!
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Surely the mods don't believe that they will get in trouble for running a poll? It's an Internet forum for computer geeks (I include myself in that). No one cares.
Came back from the polling station. Voted Leave, having my conscience clear and I will sleep easy for the rest of my life, knowing that did my duty to Queen and country, as per the oath I gave to complete my naturalization process. (because some are not hypocrites)
Now off to the cinema for Independence Day
If only more people thought like this.
This type of relativism mixed with whataboutery is getting really, really old. No, both sides were not as bad as each other.
One side is fueled by nativism/xenophobia or traditionalism/empire melancholia, little to no facts, proven to be wrong statistics, little/no expert support and backed by a few fringe politicians. The other is fueled by risk aversion, much more accurate statistics, overwhelming expert support and it is backed by the whole bloody world.
Yes you can nitpick and find crazies on the Remain side too but generally speaking, it is the sane position no matter how you twist things.
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Another 2 two leaves here.
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Yet this is an odd mentality to me. Basically you prefer a dictatorship you agree with than an elected government you don't. This seems very selfish and short-term thinking to me.
Yes totally agree. However I think it's just a weird way of our voters passion to get Britian back on the right path.
Leave is going to be the ultimate bargaining chip we can have. I do hope we get it. It would be great to avoid corruption and lobbying susceptible EU. The diesel disaster is one of many things caused by the EU.
The EU is centralising government more and it is only going to harm the UK. Juncker already feels the EU is too diluted and wants more EU control. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...closer-union-claims-jean-claude-a7095966.html This is scary!
The EU is centralising government more and it is only going to harm the UK. Juncker already feels the EU is too diluted and wants more EU control. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...closer-union-claims-jean-claude-a7095966.html This is scary!
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It's not the mods. People from OcUK asked that the poll be removed. It is technically reporting how people voted, and that isn't allowed.
It will probably be posted again after the polls close.
How is it a bargaining chip? For what exactly?
Came back from the polling station. Voted Leave, having my conscience clear and I will sleep easy for the rest of my life, knowing that did my duty to Queen and country, as per the oath I gave to complete my naturalization process. (because some are not hypocrites)
Now off to the cinema for Independence Day
You go Panos. You enjoy that movie.
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what are you talking about, unless you quoted the wrong post
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That's not how I see it. I will criticize leave for not painting the full picture and being disingenuous at times but technically most of the things they said were true.
£350m is SENT to the EU every week. They should have mentioned the net figure I agree but pedantically speaking that statement is true and not "a lie".
I've also seen remain knock down plenty of strawmen and tell lies themselves.
Agreed!
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