Have seen big billboards all over town for the upcoming Elections on May 23rd
I've never voted in the European Elections before, and haven't had anything through the post or seen any materials around the city.
Does anyone have any links as to where I can find out info around the candidates, their manifesto's etc?
Ta in advance!
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10-05-2019 11:37 PM #1
European Parliamentary Elections May 23rd 2019
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11-05-2019 01:42 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-05-2019 11:15 AM #3
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Don't waste your time. We are leaving anyway, so why bother?
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12-05-2019 11:21 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-05-2019 09:28 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What point could possibly be made with a vote here?
The only point I could see in it would be that my vote will most certainly NOT be for the Brexit party, and if I don't vote then it will make their vote proportionally higher, and I don't want anyone to read much into a high vote for them.
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19-05-2019 10:10 AM #6
I'll be voting Green or SNP for no other reason than to register a vote for someone other than one of the leave trio of Tory, Brexit and Labour.
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19-05-2019 11:58 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Not really any interest in this election but always vote for SNP, don’t agree with all their policies so wondering if this could be good opportunity to put a vote the Greens way, they’re the only two credible parties in Scotland just now IMO.
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19-05-2019 12:25 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This is the only occasion I would advise against voting for the greens.
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19-05-2019 12:37 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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19-05-2019 12:54 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
predictions I have seen are SNP 3 seats, Green 1 seat and the other 2 are between Brexit and ToryThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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19-05-2019 06:48 PM #12
We don't vote until the 26th. I'm seriously considering voting for the German Tories for the first and probably last time in my life. Mainly because I'd like to make a statement of support for Merkel's actions during the refugee crisis and as a counterbalance against the AfD. I'd normally vote Green over here and will do in the next general election.
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19-05-2019 10:28 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-05-2019 10:37 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-05-2019 10:57 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As far as this thread goes, I’m on holiday, been in Denmark the last couple of days and Copenhagen is absolutely littered with posters for the election. In Prague now but in Denmark it really felt like a big deal. It’s curious because they have a somewhat ambivalent relationship with the EU and were, along with the UK, the only nation to secure a legal opt-out from the Euro. Nevertheless the European elections seemed to count for a lot there. Not sure what the status is in the Czech Republic but not seen any political advertising. The telling point for me is that MEPs are seen and treated differently across the nations and on the continent they probably have more affirmation and respect than they do in the U.K.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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19-05-2019 11:18 PM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Where I struggle on forums like this is when clearly educated people like yourself make comments like ‘the people spoke’ I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that you are more than aware that the circumstances have changed enough to at the very least respect the fact that people like me will want to ask the question again. Peace
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19-05-2019 11:33 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think you make a good point in that both sides can and do make claim to ‘the people’ and their voice.
I suppose my concern is that do we keep having votes until the sizeable rump who want independence get their own way by pissing off those who don’t into not voting? Did we not get told this was once in a generation?
As for the circumstances changing, yes, you are absolutely right. At the time of the Indy Ref there was an economic case made by the separatists based on oil prices that turned out to be absolute bollocks. Notwithstanding the UN Declaration that we needed to move away from fossil fuels by 2020 to ensure the survival of the planet. Oil-rich Scotland, yay! Killing the planet, not so yay! It wasn’t you but I recall some Nat posters on here saying in an attempt at irony that Scotland must be cursed to have oil as a resource. Maybe, just maybe they might understand it now - oil and oil extraction and oil usage kills the planet and it is no blessing to have oil as a resource. It is morally indefensible.Last edited by Mibbes Aye; 19-05-2019 at 11:36 PM.
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19-05-2019 11:50 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
edit are you going on Tuesday to the grange?Last edited by lord bunberry; 19-05-2019 at 11:54 PM.
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20-05-2019 12:04 AM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Going to a couple of the CWC games in Durham and a couple of days at the Ashes. Are you at any of those?
I wholeheartedly agree with your point about realising the gains. I think the U.K. went for short-term gains from the oil money, essentially selling off the rights to the oil fields along with future profits. It paid for the massive unemployment bills in the early to mid eighties. There is a deeper, and hopefully non-partisan conversation about how the U.K. fixed itself from the position it was in, in the late seventies. It maybe didn’t need ThatxThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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It maybe didn’t need Thatcherism or neo-liberalism but left-centrist politics was outflanked by monetarist ideology and more classically socialist “command and control “ economics was stereotyped as not just weak but dangerously flawedThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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20-05-2019 10:07 AM #21
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ithin-20-years
Majority of Europeans expect the EU to end within next 20 years.
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20-05-2019 10:45 AM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-05-2019 11:10 AM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-05-2019 11:33 AM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hopefully you will get to see or listen to the cricket this summer regardless. I’m going to a couple of CWC ODIs, will see SAF and the Windies so hopefully get a bit of positive cricket.
Re the Ashes, got four days at Old Trafford and a day’s hospitality at Edgebaston, looking forward to it and will try and post updates inbetween the beers
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20-05-2019 11:52 AM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Stay in the UK and every last drop is coming up, you can bet your last petrodollar on that.
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20-05-2019 11:57 AM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The main thing that's going to be measured in this election is public sentiment towards no deal, measured in votes for Farage, and public sentiment towards stopping Brexit, measured in votes for Lib+Green+SNP. The relative totals between these camps will be the narrative on Friday and will set the political weather for the summer.
If you want to push the Tories towards No deal - vote Fascist (or don't vote because there is surely a motivated band of zealots going to vote for him).
If you want to push Labour towards 2nd ref/Remain - vote for a Remain party.
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20-05-2019 12:22 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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20-05-2019 06:16 PM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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22-05-2019 03:24 PM #30
To all (but especially Remainers )- please do get out and vote tomorrow.
Farage's brexo-fascists on course to win 1 and possibly 2 of Scotland's 6 seats.
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