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Post by swindonlad on Jun 3, 2014 5:37:44 GMT
Polls have opened on the Syrian Presidential Election, 3 candidates
Those in areas not under governmental control or who are displaced will not be able to vote
No chance of a change of President
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Post by markgoodair on Jun 3, 2014 6:42:08 GMT
Farse.
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 3, 2014 10:51:37 GMT
If we had backed Assad at the outset, like sensible Russia and China, this would not be taking place in towns reduced to rubble and the result would be much the same from the election! All we have done by interfering is to gain the enmity of both sides, more bloody immigrants, and yet another wrecked state needing aid. The rebels were a motley crew of nasties more likely to be worse than Assad than otherwise. Well done Hague and Cameron: Another fine mess you got us into..........but especially them.
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Post by markgoodair on Jun 3, 2014 17:03:28 GMT
If we had backed Assad at the outset, like sensible Russia and China, this would not be taking place in towns reduced to rubble and the result would be much the same from the election! All we have done by interfering is to gain the enmity of both sides, more bloody immigrants, and yet another wrecked state needing aid. The rebels were a motley crew of nasties more likely to be worse than Assad than otherwise. Well done Hague and Cameron: Another fine mess you got us into..........but especially them. So people who don't want to live in a repressive dictatorship are bloody immigrants. UKIP at its very nastiest. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 3, 2014 20:49:47 GMT
If we had backed Assad at the outset, like sensible Russia and China, this would not be taking place in towns reduced to rubble and the result would be much the same from the election! All we have done by interfering is to gain the enmity of both sides, more bloody immigrants, and yet another wrecked state needing aid. The rebels were a motley crew of nasties more likely to be worse than Assad than otherwise. Well done Hague and Cameron: Another fine mess you got us into..........but especially them. So people who don't want to live in a repressive dictatorship are bloody immigrants. UKIP at its very nastiest. Yes, always pick out the trivia and the throw-away remark. The sensible core point was about the collateral damage so often done by 'do-gooders' getting it wrong yet again. |
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Post by johnloony on Jun 4, 2014 1:26:59 GMT
Polls have opened on the Syrian Presidential Election, 3 candidates But who are the candidates? Are the other two merely token puppets of the régime, added to the process to provide a farcical veneer of competition? Or are they genuinely alternative options? |
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Post by swindonlad on Jun 4, 2014 5:18:23 GMT
Polls have opened on the Syrian Presidential Election, 3 candidates But who are the candidates? Are the other two merely token puppets of the régime, added to the process to provide a farcical veneer of competition? Or are they genuinely alternative options? 2 MPs, but there is little to nil chance of them winning, which is why I didn't spend too much time giving details |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 18, 2021 12:50:16 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 27, 2021 21:49:19 GMT
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on May 30, 2021 13:18:19 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on May 30, 2021 15:06:00 GMT
Students of this site will be interested to note that this was a Whig triumph.  |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 3, 2021 21:15:51 GMT
Students of this site will be interested to note that this was a Whig triumph. Even "True Whig"... |
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Post by neilm on Jun 4, 2021 9:33:53 GMT
I wonder how many people outside Syria voted. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jun 4, 2021 11:34:19 GMT
IIRC there was an entry for this "election" in the Guinness Book Of Records in the 1970s/80s. Apparently a government spokesperson back in the True Whig days, when asked about it, replied along the lines of "what is the fuss about, this was little different from any other Liberian election" |
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