Election Day Shenanigans
UKIP are complaining that ballot papers are being handed out folded over and people don’t realise their name is over the fold. Supporters are complaining to their party HQ that UKIP were not on the ballot paper…
The SNP are demanding the immediate cessation of automated marketing calls by the Labour party – using the voice of Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn. The calls directly market the Labour party – a breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. Desperately deprived of supporters willing to knock on doors the Labour Party is willing to break the law…
UPDATE : Source says the Information Commissioner has already reprimanded Charlie Whelan’s Unite union yesterday for doing automated calls.
1st?
In all fairness if you can’t figure out how to unfold a ballot paper your a fecking idiot.
I gather that this is your fist UK election?
No, next.
electoral commission getting jumpy about this
many complaints received
the Electoral Commission has issued an alert asking polling station staff not to fold ballot papers.
Apparently hasn’t reached my local polling station. They knew nothing about the alert and my ballot paper was folded in three.
I quickly mastered the tricky task of unfolding the paper but I can see how it might confuse a stupid person
By 9pm when I voted the word had got around, and the nice old man in the polling station folded it up in front of me, unfolded it to show me how to unfold it properly, the folded it up again.
I nearly didn’t have the heart to write Cnuts in large letters across the page, but I managed it all the same.
Not so, you might have poor eyesight. In any case, there is no rule saying that stupid people can’t vote. If there was, Labour wouldn’t have won any elections.
BNP also complaining about ballot papers on the grounds that most of their supporters can’t read.
There should be a basic tax rate or higher requirement for voting certainly.
http://is.gd/ObGK
King 28 – imagine if it had been the Labour box cleverly hidden behind the fold – nil points, methinks.
I’m 29
Well you should be old enough then.
IQ?
minus C**T
hands up if anyone is suprised
I’ve never been so surprised since the Oval in 1957. I was supposed to be at Old Trafford.
Aint that a catalogue store?
It’s disappointing and a bit sad that people would roll up just to mouth off like that.
Stop ripping off my comments you tw*t.
I am a regular LL poster,and I think by now people know I am with qualification the biggest twat going.
The parties are in strict alphabetical order… if UKIP voters are too stupid to know their alphabet and look for the field at the bottom of the list, they shouldn’t be voting at all.
BTW: Just got back from voting and asked the registrar if they’d had a good turn out. She’d just taken over the shift, but said the other had said that she’d “never known such a high turnout before, and that’s including turnout for a general election”.
Got to be very good as we are in solid Conservative territory. I’ll be delighted with 40% of the vote.
#223 Is that so ?
#223
Girl at my polling place said turnout was low – this in a fecking Labour heartland.
My sentiments, exactly. They must be Fuckwits anyway, if they want to vote for UKIP.
not everyone who voted UKIP wanted them to win. I live in a very strong tory area, voted UKIP hoping to push labour into 4th in the overall vote.
No wonder UKIP are so upset. That’s going to rule out their core support then.
Eeeee orite kid dus fancy vortin labour ?
“your a fecking idiot”
That’ll be “you’re” then.
QUOTE: “In all fairness if you can’t figure out how to unfold a ballot paper your a fecking idiot.” UNQUOTE
You’ve never been out canvassing then? No one ever lost votes underestimating the public’s intelligence.
DoverWatch mentioned last week that some of the local activists had quit
http://doverwatch.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-than-just-hard-work-this-time.html
Sun headline for Monday morning.
Brown and out.
o/t breaking news andrew symonds has been sent home from the icc world t20 for aclohol reasons
‘It woz The Sun wot Tossed ‘Um’
How about “Brown was a shit chancellor and a shit prime minister”
Yes, or ‘Brown Bread’.
“aclohol reasons”?
On the sauce, Fred?
I though Liz Dawn had caught cancer from fags and was dead!?
Nah, ya Muppet – that was Vera Duckworth.
Won’t stop her from having a postal vote , or several
Shes only dead-in-the-ead.
Typical Champers drinker
Christ – she;s a raddled old hag!
just brain dead if she’s helping labour.
god, just shows you how much she’s earning and how detached she is from the character she played.
she wont make fuck all off the labour party . the bank’s empty and now the cabinet is emptying too !
Labour trolls trawling BEEB websites and referring anything anti Gordon. Pheww at least we still have some freedom of speech on this one. This could get very nasty indeed.
Quick work Guido. BEEB have just issued a disclaimer under editors that anything possibly seen as political cannot be accepted until after 10pm tonight.
It certainly made today’s Daily Politics particularly boring.
Did “The Daily Politics have Blairite Bruiser “Dr” John Reid on to talk about football ??
can’t wait up all night watching thr faces of labour candidates as they all loose their seats dont give a fuck who wins the seats solong as its not the one eyed scotch trouser snake
There will be massive election fraud. Apparently Zanu Labour are bussing scum monkeys (Zanu Labour trash) to vote (as previously set up fake electors by Zanu Labour filth) all over the place for Zanu Labour candidates in both elections.
Zanu Labour always try to register at least 7.5% of the electorate is most constituencies as fakes, that can be used by bussing-in scum monkeys (Zanu Labour trash) to try to get Zanu Labour filth candidates into power dishonestly.
Zanu Labour is the party of Satan.
just found out NO count tonight ! ballot box’s to be under lock and key over night what a fucking scam ! time enough for liebore to chuck away all the one’s filled in incorrectly and replace them with one’s they’ve filled in for us !
Vote rigging, its what Labour do.
They have no decency.
It’s what they do best.
Labour are basically cheats and low lives. They will do anything to stay in power.
Will this left wing lie machine stop at nothing?
Noticed this morning that Liebour were one off the bottom on my insanely long Euro ballot.
Hope they’re all folded over like that.
Assholes.
Not at all. The Labour Party has a Right to govern. When certain voters are unable to understand that then “assistance” is given.
No thats the Lib dims
Labour came 11th out of 15 in my area (not necessarily a prediction) and the BNP were the first party in the alphabetically ordered list.
If UKIP wanted to be nearer the top of the ballot they should have called themselves AAAUKIP
Making excuses before the count?
That’s no way to speak of Lord Mandelson.
Manglebum is a Count without the ‘o’.
Is it cos I gay?
Vote Early, Vote Often, and don’t forget to use your Postal Votes!!
The Penguin
indeed, check the postal votes!
Anyone who has any sense would check zanu’s postal votes, and then make sure they have the cops of speed-dial. Cheeting fuckas
Anonymong…yes, you are a Tw@t.
Liz dawn eh….will she be about for the GE?….probably not!
Labour must be desperate if all they can muster is Vera Duckworth.
Who’s Vera Duckiworth?
Sorry wasn’t wearing my specs. Who’s Vera Duckworth
Jack’s wife, accidently throttled by son Terry ably assisted by Gail ‘The Hamster’ Platt!!
Duckworth sucks McBroons logs.
Let ‘em get on with it. An automated call from her tellling me to vote Labour would just piss me off further (if that’s possible)
Am glad I sighnd up to the T.P.S.
I thought I had too, that is until I started getting the TLS through my letter box every week.
HAHHA – the intellectual voter!
They don’t take any notice of the TPS, I still got a call.
labour ignore the tps
I’ve complained to them twice (normal automated machine email & deafing silence)
Complained to ofcom twice – ofcom of course is a nulab quango – useless & even more expensive than an MP
Sounds perfectly normal to me for a banana republic.
What about the fact that the ballot boxes ARE too small.
The European ballot paper/loo roll is huge in Yorks/Humber and I’m afraid that the old dears who voted before me didn’t fold the paper too well – meaning papers were poking out of the top.
They’ll still stuff them, with all the “postal votes”.
I’d go postal if I were you, now.
The one we had was easy. You just put your foot on the peddle and the large round slot at the top opened up. The was also a box there but it stated ‘Labour Votes Only’
F-f-f-for f…fuck sake people, it started in America!
Calm down, Gordon, and remember everything I taught you about winning elections.
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Order!
Maybe we should just break the legs of UKIP supporters instead of going to the trouble of folding paper over..
Try IT! You’ll be unconscious before you can make contact you sad fucker!
haha “ned”, don’t arouse yourself unnecessarily, remember you have to save your energy to fight off the hordes of immigrants that are going to be molesting your children and destroying the job you doubtless don’t have.
xx
Is he a black?
I think they’ll be getting more votes than your beloved Labour Party which will really be funny.
My beloved Labour Party? I can’t stand the fucking labour party either : )
Face it, there’s very little in the way of palatable political options right now.
I just think UKIP is closer to the bottom of the pile than the top.
Mr Wank, come to God’s Country and vote SNP!!
Or stay down south in God’s Huhnery – makes no difference to me.
By the way, you can keep Broon – we don’t want him!
You seem to be confusing UKIP with the BNP.
To be fair, people like you are easily confused.
I complained about an electioneering call from Labour some years ago but was told that it was not classed as a sales call.
Exactly. So shut up and keep writing your postal vote quota!
When you’ve finished that stack you can take a wad of ballots round to the dementia clinic!
But isn’t the Commons closed for the Day?
no on parliment is sitting
It’s disappointing and a bit sad that people would roll up just to mouth off like that.
Yes, doesn’t stop them claiming travel expenses for the day though. All those Labour MP’s with desks to clear out …
It’s disappointing and a bit sad that people would roll up just to mouth off like that.
Don’t forget the local graveyards. Plenty of names to copy there!
Is it beyond the powers of UKIP voters to unfold a ballot paper?
The UKIP voters will look for UKIP. It’s the inhabitants of Bootle, Crockie, Tockie, Norris Green, Knotty Ash and “Keeeerbie” that I worry about – (UKIP needs them too…)
- as they have been all educated by this effing lot, and got better and “better grades than ever before” having worked “harder than ever before” under the “most hard-working” (Stachanovite) teachers that have ever ever lived (anywhere)….
As an honorary scouser could you please go and fuck yourself
I, too, am an honorary scouser
I am __/not/__ a Scouser, I am a FREE MAN. (I just live here ‘coz it’s OK.)
AND….
…the poor bastards have been robbed. Would not you agree, in your saner m-m-m-moments?
I’m a scouser and so is my wife
No,no, no labour voters will turn to BNP will you not be told, remember Os Mosley he was Labour.
SIR Oswald, Bt. if you please!
Yes, they are largely knuckle dragging angry old men!
Hahahahaha,
“i just couldn’t unnerstand it, it was like… the paper was like, all double, it’s probry anuvva cunspiracy to stop the ard workin honest peepaw of engrand frum getting rid of them immagrints.”
Another victory for UKRIP
Old Farago is going to bust a blood vessel. Did you see him last night on Newsnight? What a cnut.
Yep, they did it to us here at ours too (BNP at top of course, fully-visible!)
Wankers.
Yep Hang em high. Cheatin Bstrds.
Really hoping they are toast in Scotland…..
Doing ma bit to make sure…
We voted them out. Will see the end of them before long.
Are UKIP voters so dumb they can’t unfold a piece of paper?
They just have trouble seeing the other side of anything.
Definitely the Quote of The Day
Eh?
That “eh” went in the wrong place… hmph!
LMAO!!!
I will be voting UKIP later today, but must admit, that is Funny!
Actually I very carefully looked at ALL the parties minifesto’s, policy statements and have taken a great deal of care and consideration, looking at ALL sides of the issues, from many different angles before settling on a vote for UKIP
Getting out of the EU is a primary concern for me, as I have no desire to be a part of the future roadmap to a profoundly anti-democratic, totalitarian, militarised police state. THAT is the future of the EU.
I was profoundly pro EU back in the early 1990′s and support the single market.
However the future road map is severely sinister. according to their own internal documents and policy papers, it is a model that can be described as a map to a state of absolute and total political integration, without ANY opportunity to protest, or unelect any of the legislators or executive of the EU. that is fundamentally undemocratic, Fascist and evil.
People raise the issue of the European convention on human rights, as if that is any guarantor of having our rights protected.
Under the road-map, once the necessary treaties have been ratified, the Convention could be scrapped on a whim and we will have NO legal recourse to action. Each nation will be tied into complete dependency on the other nations by the outstripping of essential goods and services and industries from nation states to be placed in isolated locations to keep each nation utterly dependent upon the EU.
Another aspect to this is the encouragement of mass migration across borders designed to increase the number of people living in each “member state” who have no loyalty to that nation.
Another aspect is the division of nations into EU regions. the slow removal of each country into the EU until the EU is a country made up of pan-national regions.
This new EU country will be a completely fascist state.
It will comply with ALL the classic signs for a fascist country. No elections of the executive power. Rabid nationalism (Pro EU). It will be a merged entity of corporations and State power.
That is why I feel that I must vote UKIP. I have no desire to live in the fourth Reich.
Cameron is far too weak on this issue and does not promise anything near enough action to defend our sovereignty or our historic freedom.
Miss Turned,
Brevity would benefit your cause.
That reflects our government, we need a low tax dynamic economy, open world trade, less buisness redtape in fact the opposite of everything the e.u. stands for. J.F.K. revitalised the american economy along theese lines.
Mr Ned please say hello to Susan Boyle. I think she’s in the ward next to yours. I’m sure they will let you vote when you feel better.
Ned
Well said.
Spot on. I think it is true, is it not, that it is illegal for an EU employee to criticise the EU?
I’m voting UKIP, because I want out, and to tell the major parties to fuck off. No idea who ANY of our candidates are, I think we maybe received one or two bits of propaganda. No idea who is our rep at the moment. Don’t really care – I’d rather they weren’t there – but I do want out of the EU. I never voted or had the opp to vote for the EU we now have, and that, as far as I am concerned, is tyranny.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the Convention on Human Rights was “owned” by the Council of Europe – and thus has effall to do with the EU.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5417281/If-the-EU-seems-intent-on-a-putsch-then-UKIP-should-give-it-a-shove.html
Sums up my position perfectly.
I voted NO in the one & only referendum on the “Common Market” as it was dishonestly sold to voters!
I’m afraid I LIVE in bloody Europe – Britain is NOT part of Europe: fuckwits – it’s an Island.
Fog in the channel – Europe cut off!
The Irish experience is as good a reason as any to vote to exit the EU.
They voted against ratification of the Lisbon treaty but were told to fuck off and get it right next time.
That is not democracy. So fuck the EU.
Free trade with the EU is fine.
I noticed the same thing, the fold is about an inch and half from the bottom obscuring the last three parties. When I mention this to the minions running the polling station they had not noticed the fold.
Yeah, but that’s what happens when you mention anything to minions.
They just say things like, “we never noticed”, and “it’s more than our jobsworth to do anything about that.”
That’s why they are minions, you see.
We use that system here as well, Gordon,
You seem to be copying ALL my ideas.
If I let you be President, can I still be Prime Minister?
Of course; just don’t send me your best wishes……..Jonah !!
Sorry Bob, heard my owner saying he wants to sent his best wishes, but after he has saved the world by tomorrow
Yes, last year’s Democracy: Best Practice conference in Harare was a real eye-opener
Thx Gordon
Look forward to seeing you and Bob at the next conference!
If you liked that, you should try the Ike Turner School of Relationship Management
Says so much for the Labour regime when they are relying on the illiterate viewers of Coronation Street to up their vote. Many of the peasants will be at home of course as their core vote are – single mums; benefit scroungers; care in the community and the work-shy. Surely they will also be targeting the job centres, social security offices and the methdaone dispensary’s throughout the country.
This is exactly akin to the desperation of the former Eastern European “juntas” who would mobilise the illiterate from the countryside and coal mines and convey them to the polling stations – unbelievable!,
But we used to round up old ladies and drive them to coal mines tooo….
Someone give me a lift … I can’t be bothered to walk. Too much dole money weighing down my pockets.
Sure you haven’t been watching Coronation Street? What the ****’ are “methdaone dispensary’s”?
Illiterate (probably doley) f*ckwit!
Bit rich of the Nats complaining about an automatic machine. They recently got done for doing the same thing with Sean Connery…
What are you saying? The SNP made Sean Connery into a robot?
Yes, he is the McTerminator – the Huhne is an ‘actor’ on par with Arnie.
Who is Sean Connery?
Mc Terminator.
What kind of self-respecting MacJock goes about the place with a name like ‘Sean’? I want DNA evidence.
Ah Sean Connery, that patriotic Scot. So patriotic in fact that he lives in another country entirely.
Sean is currently perspiring like a socialist trying to read: he may well be called on his foolish promise to return home to an independent Jockland from his current mooring in the Carib.
Quite agree Liebour are capable of plunging may depths but WHY oh WHY are the SNP such a bunch of whingers.
Oh I know, they have performed that old trick of portraying themselves (their patronising view of the Scots) as victims. Therefore as victims they get onto that old warhorse, entitlement! Simple.
We have been victims for so long, a la Sinn Feinn lite, the whole world is against us, moan moan sob sob. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Proud Scot
Just you keep voting Labour.
He could lie in another fucking universe and he still wouldn’t be a TRUE Scot. Lying bastard, that he is. Fuck him.
like the troops in Germany, and other far flung places? What fuckwits you unionist traitors are. The union is dead, and almost buried; how absolutely…
Fucking delicious!
Saor Alba.
Whats sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, at least in my world. Ergo the complaint, sorry you cannot have it both ways.
Stoff the fockin’ goose … and the gander, too. Then roast them.
Are people getting it at last?
Labour has been vote and election rigging for years.
Take 3 million postal votes in 2005 GE, heavily concentrated into marginals.
Getting Labour out of power will take bullets.
Ballot boxes have been rendered useless.
Or importing votes:
“As an EU citizen resident in the UK you are allowed to vote at local government, devolved legislature (i.e. Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly) and European parliamentary elections.
If you are a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth (including Malta and Cyprus, which are both Commonwealth countries and EU Member States) you can vote in all elections in the UK, provided of course you are resident in the UK.”
Another bribed community.
Especially the cardboard ballot-boxes they are now using.
400,000 ‘spoiled’ votes last year! Any connection, do you think?
Gordon’s not going to ban postal voting then. Ban marginal seats instead.
I don’t give a monkey’s ballbag if ballot boxes HAVE been rendered: don’t call me ‘Useless’.
Oh dear oh dear. I believe there are very hefty fines in place for people who use recorded message telemarketing unless they have explicit consent from the people being called.
Whoops is putting it lightly
I’ve got a feeling there is an exemption for political parties. I could be wrong.
I bet the same people who put in the exemption would go into spasms if you pointed out that it means the B.loody.NP could ring everyone to explain how all the bad dark skinned and incorrectly religious people should be shipped off. Apart from that, if people don’t want to be called then you would think calling them would be counter productive anyway… Idiots…
There are also criminal sanctions against fraud, but Inspector Knacker has to be motivated to investigate and press charges alongside the useless CPS so don’t hold your breath.
The Penguin
I take it the illegal part is making these calls on polling day?
Recorded Message Telemarketing is (I am reliably informed) nigh on impossible to carry out in the UK and requires prior consent from the person receiving the call.
Hopefully this will not end will (or cheaply) for Labour.
I’ll find out where to complain to for anyone who’s received a call and post details. Please complain if you receive a call – it would hit the party finances (and election coffers) quite nicely.
As far as I know, the fine can be in the thousands of pounds – per incident
Fantastic. I shall check my answering machine very carefully tonight
If I’d known this, I’d have installed a premium rate line and got them to call me repeatedly.
134
Good idea, may I sugest you record an exceptionaly long answerfone message also.
Opposite is true. In practice, you need to opt out of receiving calls using TPS. See http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Furthermore, as most marketers use withheld numbers to make marketing phone calls and it is impossible to report such calls to TPS, ICO or OFCOM without the number on which it is made, the regulations are virtually worthless.
However, details are here …
http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_basics.aspx
You are right as a recorded message can not in any way be classed as research. As for doing anything about it. There is no a hope. The ICO has now a new leader: an ex BBC journalist and Electoral reform specialist!
It is like asking a fox to guard the chickens.
“Mr Christopher Graham to the post of Information Commissioner with effect from 29 June 2009″
“Mr Christopher Graham has been Director General of the Advertising Standards Authority since 2000. He is a Non-executive Lay Representative on the Bar Standards Board (since 2006) and Non-executive Director of Electoral Reform Services Ltd (since 2001).”
“Nearly one in five small businesses admit to unwittingly breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA), according to research.”
THE OTHER 4 AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES DID IT ON PURPOSE.
FFS can’t they do anything properly? Bloody laughing stock.
It’s ‘Common Purpose’ in action, you see.
Concur Lickyalips
Automated calls are fine as long as there is no obvious plugging of a Party. Voters can be reminded to go out to vote but not with a “selling” message. Also, there must be a caller ID with each call rather than a “witheld” call
“This is a recorded message – do not, repeat do not, attempt to unfold the ballot paper”
postal votes will boost labour’s result massively anyway
Gudio
This hardly comes as a suprise
I was wondering what fraud the Criminal New Labour party would get up to today..
Every day, like Pavlov’s dogs, they commit crimes
Yesterat itr was using private files to blackmail one or more Ministers
Today, breaches of the Communications Act
And no doubt as many have pointed out here, probably massive electoral fraud using false postal votes..and it worriies me that “they” have until the weekend to announce the Euro results…plenty of time to “find”, lose” or “destroy” votes
And what further smears are they spewing out of Downing Street today ?
Every minute this Labour Scum remain in power, they further disgrace their offices…starting with Dirty Tricks Brown himself…
The Gorbals Gang obviously are shameless and illustrating where they come from…
How true. What is sad is that a few years back shenanigans of this kind would have been gaily reported by the press as only happening in places like Zimbabwe.
Pavlov’s dogs were criminals? Who knew? I thought they were just slobbery little chaps.
This is peanuts.
We need official observers in to monitor postal voting.
Remember Glenrothes
indeed.
Glenrothes:
-quadrupling of postal votes to 5548 votes (1 out of every 7 votes cast)
-80% turnout of postal votes
-postal votes counted separately from other votes, not on the traditional tables in county hall for all to see (well, not for all to see in Glenrothes it transpires).
-counting tables for regular votes obstructed from view
-marked voters register went missing after the (f)act
Bent fuckers!
THIS is peanuts?
I thought we were talking about Gordon not Charlie Brown!
You on the right Blog?
God help us all at a General Election!
Yes, I do remember Glenrothes. Shithole.
GuidOrcs Oaf,
This post in the realm of the many pitiful posts you have made is the most pitiful.
Thank you for your time, you may go.
I think the men in white coats need to take you to the Priory at the same time as Dirty Tricks your leader. Wont’” be long now. Prepare your pyjamas please..
Do tell, you sad wanker, why do you continue to dribble your pathetic offerings here, where they are derided? Why not spend your time where you might be appreciated?
The Penguin
There is a piece about your lot on the BBC website.
Charming
and? (besides, you are one of “our lot” you tosser. despite every encouragement you spend more time on here than anyone
Btw, why hasn’t Guido given Douglas Carswell a harder time about loveseatgate? It seems like he has his snout in the trout, if you will.
leave carswell alone. his wife was breastfeeding; you need a nice comfy seat for that!
Alright, if you want your taxes to pay for a nice comfy seat for Douglas Carswell to suck his wife’s tits in…
It’s only a sofa FFS.It might say it’s a loveseatgate (whatever love means)…but it’s just a silly LITTLE sofa. It’s like big enough for two Ethiopians or one Asian,or half a chav.
Breaking News
After long reflection and following massive demand, BBC Productions is pleased to announce that they have hired Alastair “WMD” Campbell to produce a show this lunchtime featuring,
The only Weapon of Mass Destruction of the Labour vote that Ally has ever found, namely,
The world famous “Tudor Beams” Prescott..
He will be on stage showing his working class privates and his working class mistresses, along with the Naked Westminster Belles who have all been defrocked specially for our show
This will take place at BBC Television centre to celebrate the End of New Labour
We are happy that Alastair came produce this show. We know he has lied, conned and spun so much filth over the last 12 years and smeared us, the Untouchable BBC, is a bit hard up, so we hope you can all attend, before he disappears from the scene for ever…
BBC Productions
Can Oleg but the rights please ?
This wil be a worldwide hit…
Your ever fraiding Mandelcash
Or how about this. You could not make it up!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/06/02/bbc_trust_backs_drama_in_which_christian_terrorist_beheads_muslim
Christ, that really upset me. I thought for a minute that they were making another series.
Wind up the BBC
They are totally irresponsible in the technical sense of the word
And biased
There can be no justification any more for having to pay a License Fee for them…
What????
Three things:
If you can’t work out how a ballot paper unfolds then tough shit – you’re too stupid to vote.
If UKIP don’t want to be last on the ballot paper change your fucking name you numbnuts. BIP would be at the top. Prats the lot of them.
Labour hate democracy so breaking electoral law is second nature.
This is a load of drival,as you go into the voting place there is the usual noticeboard telling you the law and an explanation in a f*ckin big poster if you are daft enough not to check that then serves them right
Yup. I always check my ballot paper for the correct number of candidates and take a little extra time to make sure my vote is clear, correct, legible and cannot be contested later.
UKIP are standing in EVERY region. There can be no excuse, other than rank stupidity, for not finding their box to tick.
Ah yes i remember Kilroy a proper Huhne.
And there’s another problem with the name in Wales and Scotland – yes, it’s the ‘UK’ bit that doesn’t go down to well, certainly not among us boyos. It’s a bit like Gordo banging on about ‘Britishness’. Each time he grinds on about it means more votes for the SNP and Plaid Cymru.
Still, fair play to UKIP, their marketing people could have done worse with “English Paedophile Hippy Collective”.
Worked for Alex Salmond for First Minister. That really upset the twits.
I just got a text from D Cameron on my works mobile, advising me to send a message to Labour
Shame I’d already voted on my folded up ballot paper, but at least I got one piece of election material
Maybe if someone had done some canvassing
Just been to vote. The old biddies who were supervising at my local church hall were complaining that the boxes are too small – as mentioned up-thread – or perhaps that should be the loo-roll size EU ballot papers are too large! I noticed on mine that Arthur Scargil is mentioned as the leader of the socialist labour party!!! hahahahahahaah what a joke. Like putting his name there is going to encourage voters!! You can F.R.O, Artie babe.
The biddies also commented that they are getting a “steady stream” of voters coming through – more than expected – I do hope this means that the normally apathetic GBP is out in force to show NuLabour exactly where they can stick it.
Similar story at our polling station… the registrar, who’d just gone off shift, remarked that she’d never known such a high turnout before, not even for a GE. Sunday’s going to be fun.
Conversely I vote in a strong Labour area.Hardly anyone else has voted.Not looking good for them.I think their core vote is staying home.
Yep, Couldn’t believe it when I saw Scargill’s name there. I wouldn’t vote for any party with the name ‘Socialist’ or ‘Labour’ in it. Im just wondering if Scargill’s name was there to impress a few youngsters who dont remember how much damage he did to the whole country.
Yes point taken.
However Labour have problems of their own with the paper.
It includes a ‘Socialist’ Labour Party headed up by no other then Arthur Scargil.
That should cream off at least 20% of their remaining core vote.
Quite frankly, if people cant get their heads around this still basically simple voting method. It surprises me they can find themselves to the polling booth.
Also, Labour are going to be eternally fucked what ever they do. All the postal vote corruption in the universe will not save them from political disaster/collapse.
Arthur Scargill? I thought he was dead.
His zombie continues as an undead socialist.
The Penguin
Shouldn’t that be brain dead socialist or is that a tautology?
No doubt a New labour postal vote…
Is he still being funded by the Soviet Union ? Or Chavez now ?
There’s also the Socialist Party of Great Britain in London. Should hopefully nab a few Labour votes.
Vote for them comrades, my job as organic vegetable five a day compliance officer (£87,600 per year) for the socially excluded, transgendered single parent family relies upon more years of socialism.
Only brain-dead!
I once attended a count. There were 80 papers out of 1200 where the voter had not understood “put an x in the box next to the candidate you wish to vote for”.
tick in one box, x in all the others.
too many xxxxxxx
x in between boxes.
Too be fair, poor eyesight may account for some of it.
Also, not being able to read.
So much for democracy.
Anyone have a link to one of these auto-messages?
I’ve never seen “Corry” but I do think, if we are to be blessed with soap-opera-derived propaganda, that Alice Aldridge’s sexy voice would be rather more persuasive than the chortling of some fat ugly, old, dog from Granada TV.
If you were a deluded soap watcher, you’d be a bit surprised that vera had risen from the dead.
Nice pic of Barbara Windsor though – she doesn’t look a day over eighty, either.
Check your spelling, fool.
Could no one see the bags of rubbish in the background or is this a subliminal message about Brown’s Britain
I noticed them as well.
So that’s where all the Labour rats have gone to, now their ship’s sinking and the Captain’s bonkers.
I thought it was a black and a white cat, shagging
Dear Dave, I’ve voted UKIP because I don’t believe that you have any intention of us having a NO vote on the euro constitution referendum, never.
Agreed, Dave is another EU sell out. Voted UKIP today.
Didn’t it feel soooo good.
UKIP Supporters have trouble unfolding the ballot paper to vote – Doh !!!!
More problematical is that the ballot boxes could run out of space – at my polling staion in the West Midlands at 10am it was difficult to get the ballot papers into the ballot box due to the volume of ballots already in there – goodness knows what the situation will be by 10pm tonight when the polls close .Judging by comments on the blogs this appears a nationwide problem
Pre-stuffed ballot boxes?
Nice.
No – the ballot boxes are just too small and if you had a high early turn out and are having local and euro elections,the ballot papers(bear in mind that the euro ballot is 4 times the size of a normal ballot paper and therefore thicker when folded) both go in the same box,it’s an inevitable problem. Surely it’s not beyong the wit of the electoral commission to have two separate ballot boxes where a local election is taking place although judging by the fact that some voters can’t actually tell if a ballot paper is folded perhaps that would be too complex a concept ?
We have 2 Ballot boxes. 1 Euro 1 local.
They were getting full at 7.50am.
And I did have to look hard for UKIP and I did wonder for a moment if it was there.
Critics will be happy to know I managed to find it.
Was in just after 07:00 and the nice lady commented then on the box being too small even for our two men & a dog community.
It would help if the ballot paper wasn’t full of militant christian evangelists and rabid greens .
There were two boxes where I voted. Steady stream of people coming in to vote as well. The usual senior citizens sitting patiently outside with rosettes on – noticed that only the Cons and the Libs had the guts to show their colours, no Labour at all.
I found UKIP easily on the Euro and on the local council and voted for them at both. The nice old gent and lady outside were far to old and polite to be told to go and fuck themselves, but that is the message I want to send to all the main three parties.
Seems that a lot of polling stations were busy. Mine wasnt when I went to vote about 5pm. The people there said that it had been quiet all day. But then we have a lot of students living around our area so it isnt surprising
They’ve had how long to sort it out?
Those fucking tins have been around since Gladstone!
What’s the procedure if the tins overflow ? Are there arrangements to get additional boxes to the polling stations or in fact have they got additional ballot boxes anyway ? And are presiding officers allowed to open the box ? Either way its a nightmare in progress with all sorts of possible legal challenges in the future from dis-gruntled voters/political parties.
Unbelievable – the bloody government agency responsible can’t even organise an election properly !!!
We should have taken up Mugabe’s offer to send observers from Zimbabwe.
Voted now. Asked the question. They had 2 empty ones ready to go.
Guido will tell you..they empty, throw the Liebour ones back in the box then they have a bonfire with the rest..easy as saying Zanu.
I had the same problem when I went to vote and had to add Another fold to the bollot paper and even then I could still see it sticking out slightly, it didn’t help that the design of the box meant it was wider than it was deep. When the other way round would minimise this problem
Is there any an engineers left in this country FFS ?!
Should have been in Scotland at the last Scottish elections, you know the one that Wee Dougie Alexander managed to botch (they lost). This ballot paper was just about as big but not as thick, or did I mean some of the voters were thick?
Some may be happy that the political establishment has comprehensively shafted them, personally I will vote a political slap in the face by spoiling the ballot paper.
I’m not voting anybody into a job on a promise of reform.
MP’s can’t be trusted.
You should vote UKIP then.
4th for Labour will be a huge slap, which you can sit back and await, knowing you helped to deliver it.
You are not voting for MPs today. You can only vote for councillors and MEPs.
I can understand your desire to spoil your paper and that is your right, but that is also what the mainstream bastards in the mainstream parties are counting on.
It would not matter one jot to them if the entire nation spoiled their ballot papers. The truth is that even if they win an election with 2% of the population’s support, that will be enough for them to keep their snouts in the trough and claim a mandate for doing so.
VOTE for a decent INDEPENDENT candidate. They DO exist. ANY other form of protest WILL be seen as a positive reward and approval by the main parties as it will let them off the hook.
We have been granted a weapon to use against these corrupt bastards. We have an opportunity to give ALL the mainstream parties a good kicking.
I cannot imagine why anyone would pass up that opportunity.
A friend who stood at the last GE said that spoilt papers are shown individually to each candidate. Thus, he has just spoilt his ballot for the local elections to make his point to all the candidates.
The candidates all view the potentially disputed ones in a properly run election.
We agreed between us without problems for most of them. The totally ambiguous were discarded.
I’m in Dundee and got this call yesterday. I think it must have had someone listening in while the recording was playing because it hung up on me as soon as I started laughing.
Why did I not get one, I am in need of a good laugh. Gordo lives close by, in his second or is it his first home. Too close.
bucket bags–with a cop holding it
If only Labour could get ” Liz MCDonald” To get her tits out @ 7:30 each night I may vote for them
Christ.
You are a beast.
She looks like a poor man’s Esther Rantzen. Beast, go forth and get yer specs cleaned.
Should have gone to Specsavers!
Should have gone to Specsavers!
Sorry didn’t show up the first time
Castleford lass…down on her waist swaying with the breeze from the Aire!
Dont listen to our Vera, shes a fucking idiot.
So are you, you fucking married it.
The Penguin
and faked her heart attack
Oi, Tyrone, you lazy twat, get off Fizz’s face and get back ter garijj. We’ve got a mortgage to pay, now Vera’s brown bread.
Emma Bonino, an Italian Senator is on hunger strike at the Italian TV station RAI.
She says
“In Italy nobody knows what they are voting for, what is the European Parliament, who is standing or on what platform.”
Sounds familiar.
Wouldn’t a hunger strike be a more convinvcing protest were it to take place at Michelin-starred osteria than a state-owned TV studio?
Nobody here really gives a toss either.
The main reason for voting in these elections is to send an overwhelming signal in order to rid ourselves of the sweaty commie hoon that is fucking our nation.
She was the Commissioner in charge of the fisheries CFP disaster at one time. Scottish fishermen were howling for her blood, EU wrecking their livelihoods etc and fair play to her, she agreed to come to an open meeting in Aberdeen. A tiny woman, she harangued a roomful of hairy-arsed fishing skippers, called them greedy men who cared nothing about leaving any fish for the next generation, said the UK fleet was 50% too big, and invited questions. Not one spoke up, they sat on their hands muttering. She swept off in triumph, clutching a Caithness crystal bowl which the stunned fishermen had presented her with.
That’s my boys, too stupid for words. Thats the reason we still have Golden Brown.
I got a text form my mate telling me I was a fat bastard, I am now confused who to vote for
british nosh-ional party
Chinky poof!
Hot snot anybody?
The ballot boxes were made for ballot papers (small, probably not recycled, has the surnames of four or five local candidates) rather than the gargantuan billboards adorned with all manner of ridiculous party insignia (if you cannot read the name of the party, should you really be voting?) that we are now supposed to use.
The postal vote system is completely fucked.
The BNP must be pleased that the parties are listed in alphabetical order, putting them at the top of the paper.
I concur with Chad about the tiny ballot boxes with their tiny slits. You literally have to stuff the paper into an already overflowing box.
I was told that the box at the top was the one to cross for the party which came first when the counts are done.
I blame that Huhne Blunkett insisting on it all duplicated with fucking Braille, all them little perforations really make it tricky.
The Penguin
But thouroughly absorbant
If like myself you like trannys vote Labour
Ed Balls married one.
Liz Dawn? Silly old bag…
Ballot paper fold-up blunder. Hat tip to Guido and Iain
The wife just dropped dead in real life so Im bowing out
My mother Blanche sucked Ken off as that bloke from the corner shop throat fucked him
Deirdre,
Wash your mouth out.
YUK!
On another point Guido
“Sir”Michael White had a very interesting article in the Guardian yesterday
talking about Whitehall no longer taking orders from Ministers
and the necessity, whoever wins the GE, of an Emergency Budget because of the exploding Government deficit etc…and massive public spending cuts…
Perhaps he is getting it ?
I know we have known this for months but better late then ever for his Lordship White…! (do you think he will get a Life peerage when Dirty Tricks falls ??!!)
Yes of course…for faithful Zanu arselicking for years..
The Lords will now be known and the House of Labour Scum…
Until it is abolished of course…
Brown sacks all the cabinet and MP’s and declares himself president.
Thank heavens they got him to the funny farm first.
Liz Dawn? Labour really do attract the big names don’t they?
They’d contracted Danny La Rue, and had to take what they could get at short notice.
The Penguin
But surely, pre 1997, all the luvvies were desperate for a Labour win. Where are they now? Not even a sighting of Ben Elton this time.
Elton knows that the Neu Labour party is far funnier than any of the shite he writes. Besides he is too busy (as a soccherlist man of the people) working on another crap mucial with Sir Andy Pandy Webbottom.
Know who to blame Faattcchheer, yes that was your catchphrase.
Danny was ‘entertaining’ Lord Mandelcum and a group of his friends (all billed to us naturally) and as such could not cum to two events.
Where’s that Labour apologist Billy Bragg these days, voting Tory and keeping his head down?
Relaxing at his Dorset mansion- very man of the people type gaff it is too. Nice sea views and a profile of it in one of those property porn pages in the Sundays a while back. I still like Greetings to the New Brunette though. Bill may be a champagne socialist (like most ahem rock stars) but he did knock out some good tunes in the past.
Liz Dawn isn’t a big name, man! Look at my name: now, that IS big!
I don’t realleh know…..
My banana wouldnt fit into the ballot box
……I’m free
Maybe it will fit in the new republic that is imminent.
After today’s disastrous results for the conservatives, labour and dums will their leaders resign now or carry on until the next election when we can sack them?
I once let Percy Sugden take me up the Stretford end
You dirty bitch!
The Penguin
And he left you there
That miss Nugent always was a frosty knickers.
No, I’m not telling you racist, homophobic, taxpaying plebs how much I’m paid. What do you think this is? A lawful country?
City rumour that Brown has quit
Man U says he stays
Paddy Power’s paid out
What? The Country?
Kaka for Real Madrid, Brown for Cov City
KAKA is Shit!
Biting his nails?
Fucking hell they are desperate
Who next, Chas and fucking Dave?
Maybe john Leslie or Nick Griffin
No, much worse than that- Dave Cameron
Now we know why Gordo called Susan Boyle.
Called her what@
Fat, ugly, scotch cow!
Break out the tin-foil hats!
OH WAIT
Is there an election or something? I hope they don’t fold the ballot papers – confuses the hell out of me.
I have “party hands”
Have you seen what is trending on Twitter? United front against one particular party there.
That is one busy tweet trend.
I think I will start the aardvark party, so it is at the top.
Sounds like a lot of aard vark.
Vote Ardvark.
I am voting for you.
Your promises on the economy, crime, jobs and accountability in government are non existent but a huge improvement on the promises the 3 main parties have given us already!
Hello, Can we rely on your vote?
“No you cant you Hoon”
Had a problem voting,
Had four friends all on the voting paper, four different parties. So voted for none of them.
I do agree that one doesn’t even need a GCSE to open a folded piece of paper and suggest that all those UKIP members have a chance of applying to be admitted for the Darwin Awards.
Are dem fer nowt? Gizza dozen den wack – an’ some in a bag fer softshite.
Eh?
Alan Sugar seen at No 10:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/380f3c26-50f8-11de-8922-00144feabdc0.html
Suggestions he’s been hired, but to do what?
Perhaps Labour rebels have hired him to tell Gordon
“You’re fired!”
Ooh celebrity endorsement. Well I was going to vote for that nice man with the neat hairstyle and smart shoes. However since Timmy Mallet’s robo phone call, I think I’ll vote Fascist just like what a micro celebrity told me to.
Sheesh! Just how brain dead do you have to be to base your precious vote on what some luvvy tells you via a machine? Stilll Brain dead….hmmm that may well explain Labour supporters.
I wonder who the Greens could get to robo call for them ..Bill Oddie? UKIP – Inspector Clouseau perhaps?
Sean Connery should do the SNP one –natch!
and for Master Grand Funk Inquisitor can I just say your hilarious mate. I wouldn’t wee on Crash McIdiot if he was on fire. I might lend him a cup of four star though.
You can’t get four star anymore, like most things this ZaNu Liebour government banned it
If UKIP are making excuses already their results must be dire.
Or it could be attention seeking since they have a silly name – still since Labour managed to call themselves The Labour Party, that’s put them under Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party on the ballot.
Numpties.
FT story about Alan Sugar….
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/380f3c26-50f8-11de-8922-00144feabdc0.html
He’s been hired… by the Labour rebels to tell Gordon
“You’re fired!”
?
‘You’re hired?’ Sir Alan Sugar seen at Number 10
Perhaps hired by Labour rebels to tell Gordon
“You’re fired!”
auto moderation doesn’t like ft links, but it’s front page on ft dot com.
Sad man. He really wants Alan Sugar to tell him how to fire the whole damn lot so they can’t fire him first.
Gordon’s going to give him a job cos he doesn’t want any elected politicians in his cabinet. Sugar doesn’t have to answer to the voters.
No. 10 secretary phoned the wrong guy.
Gordon actually wants to ingratiate himself with the English voters (whose customs he does not understand) by installing the Saviour of English Cricket to “help clean up the democratic system”.
From the F.T.
Sir Alan emerged from a side entrance to Number 10 before being driven off in his trademark Rolls Royce. Asked whether he had been offered a government job, Sir Alan told the FT: “It’s none of your business”
Should that be the case surely it is our buissnes a straight yes or no would have sufficed.
Anybody heard the rumour that the Telegraph are storing a massive expenses-related scandal on Cameron? ‘Tis the rumour doing the rounds atm…
Like what? His wisteria was bought from Harrod’s?
If so they have left it a bit late for the current elections.
I would hope that DC is sufficiently aware of his finances that he should have no futher worries from the DT.
Is that you Dolly?
Brown & Cameron beware;
I poped in my local for a pint, as you do!, late yesterday afternoon and the question came up who votes for who for the EU election.
The reply was almost to the man, and women, said all at the same time UKIP.
No prompting, it just came out, UKIP.
Not being a gambling man but a fair bet is Labour beaten to 4th place. Tory’s will have a fight on there hands to have the most votes, esp. in the south.
Mc Broon is totaly fucked, that’s obvious, along with his cronies. GE before September. Can’t wait for the results. Hate them with passion.
Vote Ardvark
Did you seriously attempt to force your name to the top of the ballot paper by mis-spelling Aardvark?
Vote Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaardvark, surely?
That’s what you get for living on a sink estate. Have a bit of pride man. Trade up to a more salubrious neighbourhood.
Reply to 230
how about a small village in Sussex bloody expensive sink. All the people mentioned are professionals or wealthy self employed.
You are always welcome to become the village idiot, twat!!!
Sounds like your village has enough UKIP idiots already — especially when they have St. Daniel Hannon MEP (or is he in the next door region?).
*** its all been too much for gordon – he’s hanged himself!! ***
Picture:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/local-elections/5438926/Who-is-going-to-knock-at-No-10-and-tell-Brown-the-game-is-up.html
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice
Sorry, he’s just looking for a bogey he dropped on the step.
The Penguin
I think he’s having a nice little wank while thinking about the size of Britain’s national debt.
ha ha ha….
An excellent observation pp
Thank you!
Heard of a polling booth in London that was using wheelie bins as their ballot boxes hadn’t turned up.
So much easier for transportation straight to the tip too.
If I receive such an automated call, I’ll phone the police.
I imagine I won’t get one though because I assume they’re only targeting their marginals and safe seats and not the areas where they know they’re going to lose massively.
The positive side is that with that kind of criminal activity and the other forms of vote rigging they’re using, they’re shooting themselves in the foot because it’ll just mean that they’ll get an even bigger vote against them at the general election. People don’t take kindly to a sitting government openly breaking the law to keep power.
The effect will be overwhelmingly positive; more people will now vote against them even today once they hear what kind of tactics are being used. ie people will have the attitude: “I wasn’t going to vote before, but after that phone message and seeing what else they’re doing I’m going to make a special trip and vote against these evil fuckers.”
Anyway, all the old biddies will save us; their private pensions have been reduced to fuck all, as have their savings’ interest and any shares they held, and old biddies always vote. A winter fuel payment which you only get if you’re over 103 and have no income and it’s minus 20 for 3 consecutive weeks is hardly compensation for totally annihilated pensions/savings/interest.
As an Old Biddie, I’m doing my best to get rid of them. I would have tried poison, and it may come to it. I may join the SNP in time for the GE just to make sure that the lad next door gets a good doing.
Re the unite union’s automated calls: whilst living in the uk i used to receive labour flyers in envelopes with postage paid by the unions
Don’t UNITE have form on automated calls?
Well Whelan has plenty of previous, regardless. A classic NL thug.
Wasn’t he Gordies Advisor?
Look if you are going to post rumours, then at least stick your name to it.
I think its more likely they have one on Brown to be honest.
They’ve been very light touch on some of the Huhnes, such as Balls-Cooper.
The Penguin
There will be next to nothing on Balls-Cooper. The Yorkshire Post went after them a few years back over which house was designated the second home. I think they will have been very careful since.
So,the reason for pre-folding the paper is so that they all fit in the boxes when re-folded afterwards?? WHY are they being folded at all?! If the returning officers knew the boxes were too small and didn’t make sure enough new ones were provided,they should be out of the job and being questioned by the Police for possible electoral fraud. Who the hell would think arbitrary folds in ballot papers was acceptable?
Lib Dems facing defeat in West Dorset are ringing known Labour voters to ask them to turn out and vote LibDem to keep the Tories out.
Well maybe its Gordons half wits making the call
I went to vote at 7am and apart from the obviously very inexperienced officers at the desk (“er,you do not live in that road,we have no record of you” to which I then replied “yes I do,look there is my name right in front of you”) – I was handed the two ballot papers,went to the booth and unfolded the larger European one – and thought,”where the hell is the UKIP bloke?”.
It WAS folded in such a way that you could not see it at first glance – I DID think it was missing at first,so i should the real thicko’s (Brown/Straw/Ball’s etc) would have great difficulty seeing it.
Anyway;
Lib Dem X
UKIP X
Why UKIP?
Because they also tore Brown to shreds (Farage) when the criminal Brown visited Strasbourg and I want them to beat Labour in to 4th place.
I want Brown’s nose pushed firmly in to the cow shit.
Daniel Hannon MEP was the one who tore Brown to shreds at Strasbourg.
Daniel Hannon is a Conservative MEP not a UKIP MEP FFS!
Go to the bottom of the class.
Think you’ll find that Farage also ripped Gordon a new one at Strasbourg. I recall watching the video on Youtube and although he wasn’t as good as Daniel Hannan, it was still pretty good.
You can view the video here
We spent ages folding the forms over a ruler to obscure UKIP, the Unity Mitford Party, the Unofficial Monster Raving Loonies and ZaNuOldLabour. And some of us wrote rude words under the folded-over bit so the votes will be spoiled anyway.
Ah…but is the information commissioner a bit like me, utter crap!
Everyone on LabourList seems to be Hitler Youth?
And is Draper dead yet?
Can we be of assistance ??
He’s got God. Honestly.
If my feckin son beats me in the Council Elections today, I’m gonna feed his nuts to Aaron Dingle’s dog.
I had to Google Eric Pollard. Are you sure you are on the right forum? Shouldn’t you be posting on Digital Spy.
(I only know of that site because my gran uses it!)
Take no notice. He’s very short.
I might be a bit short now but I’ll be loaded if the gravel pit planning permission gets through.
This “folded paper means we’ll lose votes” claim from UKIP is crazy.
I’ve just voted and was handed a lengthy and pre-folded Euro voting slip. The weight and poorish quality of the paper meaned thefold wasn’t ‘tight’ and it naturally unfolded to reveal the entire list easily. There was no way an even vaguely competent person could miss finding UKIP down the bottom.
Next time, UKIPers why not think about calling yourselves something more sensible, or how about doing what my local taxi firm does and call yourselves aaa111 UKIP, then you’ll be nearer the top!
‘Aaaah UKIP’, that would be a good name.
Memories, memories. Bisto and what were those places called again. You know where you could meet, have a drink and a smoke if you wished to, caught up with political views and discussed interests like sport, etc, etc. Met girls take ‘em for a spin in the old MG.
Mine was folded like an origami swan.
Who gives a fuck?
The EU Commission make 75% of our laws, and we can’t vote for them.
I wonder how many voters will feel they kicked ass today and taught ZanuLaboor a lesson by voting UKIP?
Lets just hope it doesn’t act as GBs safety valve enabling those same voters to feel they can now vote Laboor in a GE?
Uh?
[...] up at Guido Fawkes too. Man of [...]
The Electoral Commission’s guidance says that the form must be folded before being handed to the voter.
My incredibly long form was handed to me unfolded.
Mind you, I’ve used shorter bits of bog-roll (I won’t comment on the quality!) – I felt like I was waving a paper streamer towards the voting booth.
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Ah….see my post 255, be very wary of any commision or indeed particularly anyone calling themself ‘commissioner’
Whereas most people calling themselves ‘commissionaire’ are thoroughly decent and trustworthy people.
I can’t wait until after 10pm – the numbers of anti-Brown backstabbers who’ve put their heads above the parapets until now will look like a mere trickle compared to the flood that will arrive after the polls close.
Bring it on!
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Initially I thought this folding issue was utter rubbish. Although after seeing the photo of the ballet paper on this BBC article I can see how UKIP could be missed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8081729.stm
You could quite easily miss the extra fold with just UKIP on the other side.
Obviously done on purpose. They will need another ballot tomorrow and re-run. I would be furious if my old mum had come back and said she didn’t vote because of this easy oversight by the potential voter.
I have just returned from the polling station and was half expecting Tumbleweed to drift across the car park and I don’t exactly live out in the sticks.
Tumbleweed *did* drift across our car park, and I do live in the sticks.
I just goes to show.
My UKIP candidate is called Tumbleweed.
Funny – living on the left bank of the Styx, I didn’t see any tumbleweed. A big dog … yes!
I’m waiting for Nu Labour’s electoral chances to turn up.
Well our polling station is just a shack, not even as nice as something you would expect to find in MugabeZaNuland, it really could be knocked clean over by any passing tumbleweeds!
They hired a mobile toilet trailer for ours.
I was furious when I tried to vote for UKIP and saw that the polling clerk at my local station had folded my ballot paper into a swan and the lady in front of me was given a seagull that flapped its wings when you pulled its tail.
I’ve got a black belt in origami. To make a paper swan you will need a piece of paper.
Step 1:
Fold in half the long way.
Step 2:
Fold two corners in to meet along the center crease.
Step 3:
Turn over and repeat, so there are two sets of folded corners facing opposite directions.
Step 4:
With the paper flat on the table, take the edge of one of the downward facing flaps and fold it inward so the edge aligns along the center crease. Repeat with the other side to make a kite shape.
Step 5:
Turn over and repeat Step 4, folding the sides inward again to make a narrower kite shape.
Step 6:
Grasp the narrow tip and fold back so it meets the point at the other end.
Step 7:
Fold the tip of the pointed end forward to make the head/beak.
Step 8:
Fold the swan in half the long way, leaving all the creases folded as they are.
Step 10:
Hold the body of the swan and carefully pull the neck forward.
When it is in the desired position, crease at the base where the neck meets the body so it stays in place.
I never knew what Step 9 was – but I blagged it in the exam.
I used to watch Origami on TV, fuckin. amazin!
I did that exam too. The certificate was a wall tile.
Liz Dawn, another Champagne Socialist,
who apparently likes dem nigga’s living anywhere, but by her.
A clear case of zanulab NIMBY.
Hope she was reading from a script, those celebs are usually so thick! Everyone Labour dragged up here to Scotland put their feet in their mouths. HaHa.
Well, I have just voted in Brighton and the only folds were those around my gut.
Brighton, you say? I know it well. I hope you put the ballot paper into the right slot.
I rolled it up into a nice tight tube and it fitted just fine after that.
The chipmunks folds are round her labia!
I am reliably informed that Gordon along with Blears, MandleBum, Jacqui & Husband, Balls, without Yvette, Draper and Blunketts dog are all going into the ‘Big Brother House’ tonight at 9pm.
Be there to greet them.
I hope to be first to crap all over the sofa.
…and we’re supplying the on screen entertainment in the house.
Just GET out and Vote anything,
except ZANU. Even the knuck dragging
facisti!
But but but … Zanu are the feckin knuck draggin’ Fascisti.
Too late for Guido – but help from a Chartered Accountant to avoid speeding points:
This is how the points get added to your licence:
If you get a fixed penalty notice through the post which also carries
penalty points the computer system first sends you a demand for the
cash. When you have paid, it then sends a demand to return your licence for
endorsement.
It cannot handle the licence endorsement and the payment at the same
time, and it cannot process the points part of the system until the
financial section is complete.
If you overpay the fixed penalty, it must issue and send a refund
cheque for the overpayment.
Therefore, overpay the fixed penalty by sending a cheque for the full
amount plus £1.
The computer will then automatically generate a refund cheque for the
over-payment and send it to you.
** **** Do not cash this refund cheque – DUMP IT**.*
The system then remains ‘open’ and cannot generate the ‘send your
licence for endorsement’ demand part of the program.
It does, however, record your payment of the fixed penalty, so it does
not trigger the ‘follow-up unpaid fine’ stage. As there is no human intervention, the system will leave you alone, since it has got your money, which is the primary objective!
Brannans Chartered Accountants
Bollocks – I’ve just paid a speeding fine.
Mind you – I’m pleased to see that the 2@s in NuLab haven’t blotted their copybook. Everything they touch turns to ratshit.
My husband and I are voting UKIP…can’t trust that one-eyed Scottish git as far as you can throw him. We should know, he used to be the neighbour from hell when we lived next door to him.
You have all my sympathies, I do hope the Dear Boy remains in his true home for the rest of his life, and he can sell his second/first home in North Queensferry at last.
323Onan the Rotarian says:
June 4, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Well, I have just voted in Brighton and the only folds were those around my gut.
POST OF THE DAY
we have to put an end to the politicos recording who we vote for.!!!!
no more numbers recorded against ballot papers which can then be used to identify you and who you voted for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
END THIS SHIT
Perhaps UKIP are hoping for a vote in-crease.
Old Tricks…
People really do see the shit covering the streets on days like these. The filth and scum are out in force, doing everything they can to get their muck all over households behind their rivals back’s . Same old politics, i.e. cloak and dagger. Yawn. When will they ever learn? A rhetorical question.
no problem with my ballot paper, though it has to be said that labour would have been below the fold….not that would have any relevance of course
was odd that the people who presided over affairs were different to normal, older men reading pro-labour papers and watching dvd’s. Very different to what has always happened, they used professional women, teachers, who spent the day reading novels and had no bias
We had two dear little old ladies, one asked me if my Husband was doing the count, when I said that he was not, she said he looked like one of the chaps who was. Now thinking about it,shame he wasn’t.
The ballot box looked suspiciously like a shredder and was surprisingly full!!
Anyone else notice that?
Hooray, just got my vote for UKIP in. Fuck of Labour and fuck off Europe. Staying up now to watch the results as lying thieving Labour scumbags across the land realise exactly how much the people of teh nation despise the odious, lying thieving Huhnes.
Guido update -
“Source says the Information Commissioner has already reprimanded Charlie Whelan’s Unite union yesterday for doing automated calls.”
Friend of mine had a recorded call from His union last week telling Him to vote Zanu. If the Union call is telling people it’s from the union, then which tw**s in Zanu are responsible for the actress calls?
my partner received a snail mail, one day last week also telling him to vote zanu.
We both voted UKIP
I voted for the ORIGAMI party.
They weren’t very good, on paper, and I understand that they have since folded.
14 candidates on my slip and the nice lady folded it about 6 times. Maybe UKIP should rename themselves to aUKIP and get to the top.
I didn’t get my postal ballot. I rang the helpline, who told me I would be able to pick it up from the council offices, and they would ring me when it was ready. Not exactly why I opted for a postal ballot!
I got no call, and when I followed it up on the day, I was told that they had no details about where my ballot paper was at all. I was pretty much told ‘Sorry. We messed up. Maybe next time.’
Can anyone suggest how I complain? (Apart from anarchy).
“Desperately deprived of supporters willing to knock on doors the Labour Party is willing to break the law…”
Will the anti-terrorism plod be sent around to the homes of the relevant nulabs to arrest them at gun-point and then search their offices?
No?
Thought not.
I think this rumour might have been started by The Jury Team battle bus talking about ‘Brown Out’ in the city this lunch time.
Good showing by those little guys today actually, on the ground making a terrific racket.
Why are there no exit polls from the two votes?
I can see that originally the media might not have thought it worth bothering but after the events of the last few weeks you might expect them to change their mind.
I don’t usually vote but when Vera Duckworth phoned me…personally…and urged me to vote and vote Labour, I did just that!
Coronation Street is my very best favourite and Vera and Jack are my bestest ever favourite charachters.
I also love Home and Away and looking at porn videos and Conservative expenses accounts.
I can’t wait to run the rule over Dave’s expenses.
morning Morning.
Let us see if plod will deal with this law being broken.
Just a quick update on this. The ballot papers were machine folded very tightly and the bottom fold was almost stuck down. From the picture on the following page you will see that this was deliberate and not by chance:
http://www.westbournemouthukip.com/main.htm