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Post by minionofmidas on Oct 27, 2024 10:43:42 GMT
Just spotted the Electoral Commission's report (https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-reports-and-data/our-reports-and-data-past-elections-and-referendums/report-2023-recall-petition-rutherglen-and-hamilton-west) on the recall petition which includes the interesting stats on how the petition was signed. The threshold was 8,113. Week One: 7,095 Week Two: 2,131 (going over the threshold sometime midweek) Week Three: 1,126 Week Four: 750 Week Five: 584 Week Six: 687 The Returning Officer sent out 14,865 postal signing sheets for the recall petition, of which 6,869 were returned; 62 were ruled out due to mismatching signatures etc, so 6,807 were included in the count. That's 55% of all the signatures. This is fascinating, I had no idea that the signatures were so "front loaded". Are similar stats available for other recall petitions, and if so how do they compare? Not to mention so postal. I didn't even know you could sign by post. |
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Post by WJ on Nov 2, 2024 23:36:46 GMT
The EPP is essentially little more than the political wing of the agricultural lobby. That is all there is to it. That's why the Tories were never a good fit. The farmer vote might well be Tory leaning, but that doesn't really mean much here. Whereas in Germany for example...the CDU and CSU are intrinsically linked to agriculture. Intertwined. Interesting that the historically agrarian parties in the Nordics are all ALDE as far as I'm aware. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 2, 2024 23:40:47 GMT
The EPP is essentially little more than the political wing of the agricultural lobby. That is all there is to it. That's why the Tories were never a good fit. The farmer vote might well be Tory leaning, but that doesn't really mean much here. Whereas in Germany for example...the CDU and CSU are intrinsically linked to agriculture. Intertwined. Interesting that the historically agrarian parties in the Nordics are all ALDE as far as I'm aware. Ok, there is another element admittedly. No transubstantiation, no party. |
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