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Post by maxque on Feb 14, 2017 3:30:36 GMT
What does the voter do with the ballot papers of all the candidates they don't want to vote for? Of all the questions one might ask why that one? Drop on floor/back to the table/in pocket/in bin provided? Who cares other than you? There is a bin in every voting booth to drop them, but, sure a few end on the floor or in the voting booth. |
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Post by neilm on Feb 14, 2017 9:43:10 GMT
How I wish French circonscriptions (constituencies) were given proper names instead of those god awful numbers! Imagine the uproar if we had Devon 1, Devon 2, Devon 3 et cetera. Except we'd of course have Exe 1, Exe 2, Exe 3 etc. You can imagine that going down well in the rest of the county. Plymothians wouldn't like being associated with the minor provincial town up the road. |
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Post by mrpastelito on Feb 14, 2017 9:47:16 GMT
Except we'd of course have Exe 1, Exe 2, Exe 3 etc. You can imagine that going down well in the rest of the county. Plymothians wouldn't like being associated with the minor provincial town up the road. Ah, don't worry. Devon would've been carved up with Plymouth ending up in Tamar 1 and 2. |
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Post by neilm on Feb 14, 2017 10:00:28 GMT
You can imagine that going down well in the rest of the county. Plymothians wouldn't like being associated with the minor provincial town up the road. Ah, don't worry. Devon would've been carved up with Plymouth ending up in Tamar 1 and 2. South Hams would have been 'Dart' no doubt! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 15:03:41 GMT
If MACRON really does win then the legislatives are going to be what is technically known as a clusterf uck. Is he presenting candidates under his own ticket or will he simply endorse PS or something? He has promised a full slate. I guess the chances of this transpiring depend somewhat on whether he wins. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 14, 2017 15:26:01 GMT
Is he presenting candidates under his own ticket or will he simply endorse PS or something? He has promised a full slate. I guess the chances of this transpiring depend somewhat on whether he wins. Yes he's set up his own personality cult party called (I kid thee not) En Marche! |
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Post by Tony Otim on Feb 14, 2017 16:17:59 GMT
I would guess that if he did win then there would be something of a realignment in the centreatment left with a fair degree of ship jumping by some, which may have an impact prior to the elections.
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Post by john07 on Feb 14, 2017 19:45:49 GMT
I would guess that if he did win then there would be something of a realignment in the centreatment left with a fair degree of ship jumping by some, which may have an impact prior to the elections. Remember that the current PS was a creation by Mitterrand out of the ashes of the old SFIO bringing in elements from the PSU as well as the left wing of the former Christian Democratic Party (MRP) plus a few 'maturing' former ultra leftists and left Radicals and ex-Stalinists. Maybe a realignment along the lines of that in Italy is on the cards? |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 14, 2017 20:01:34 GMT
I wonder where MLP, who touts herself as the scourge of the "international banker class", will find all this extra money to borrow to pay for her spending spree?
Ever more proof that there are almost no economically credible runners in the presidential race, bar a parvenu and...well...Fillon, who is damaged goods.
Hopefully the legislatives will throw up something better.
My prediction is that the Right will narrowly win these. Macron might play a spoiler role but nothing convincing. The FN will yet again find themselves not making much progress, and might lose the dreadful Gilbert Collard.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 14, 2017 20:08:34 GMT
You can imagine that going down well in the rest of the county. Plymothians wouldn't like being associated with the minor provincial town up the road. Ah, don't worry. Devon would've been carved up with Plymouth ending up in Tamar 1 and 2. How about ' Bouche-du-Plym'?  (I almost prefer 'Tamar 2' to 'Plymouth Sutton & Devonport'.) |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Feb 14, 2017 20:12:57 GMT
Ah, don't worry. Devon would've been carved up with Plymouth ending up in Tamar 1 and 2. How about ' Bouche-du-Plym'? (I almost prefer 'Tamar 2' to 'Plymouth Sutton & Devonport'.) What about a Centre-Val de Trent, comprising random bits of different historic counties in the Midlands? |
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Post by Foggy on Feb 14, 2017 20:17:47 GMT
How about ' Bouche-du-Plym'? (I almost prefer 'Tamar 2' to 'Plymouth Sutton & Devonport'.) What about a Centre-Val de Trent, comprising random bits of different historic counties in the Midlands? I'd be more tempted to call that ' Hauts-d'Angleterre'. The Kent and Essex sides of the Thames Estuary could be combined into ' Tamise-Maritime'. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Feb 14, 2017 20:21:59 GMT
What about a Centre-Val de Trent, comprising random bits of different historic counties in the Midlands? I'd be more tempted to call that ' Hauts-d'Angleterre'. The Kent and Essex sides of the Thames Estuary could be combined into ' Tamise-Maritime'. Hauts-d'Angleterre is a merger of Northumberland and Cumberland. |
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Post by Foggy on Feb 14, 2017 20:32:27 GMT
I'd be more tempted to call that ' Hauts-d'Angleterre'. The Kent and Essex sides of the Thames Estuary could be combined into ' Tamise-Maritime'. Hauts-d'Angleterre is a merger of Northumberland and Cumberland. Ah yes, that works better. The English side of the old TV Borders region. We'd have ended up with ' Deux-Avons' (as if one weren't bad enough!) and ' Côtes-du-Wash' as well. |
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Post by neilm on Feb 15, 2017 11:55:54 GMT
Ah, don't worry. Devon would've been carved up with Plymouth ending up in Tamar 1 and 2. How about ' Bouche-du-Plym'? (I almost prefer 'Tamar 2' to 'Plymouth Sutton & Devonport'.) I'd much prefer to go back to having separate Drake and Devonport seats. |
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Post by Foggy on Feb 15, 2017 21:24:52 GMT
How about ' Bouche-du-Plym'? (I almost prefer 'Tamar 2' to 'Plymouth Sutton & Devonport'.) I'd much prefer to go back to having separate Drake and Devonport seats. If we're going to name the Plymouth seats after neighbourhoods, those would be the right ones (though Drake ward is full of students). Since we've been stuck with 'Moor View' and 'Sutton' for the past couple of elections, I'm content with the switch to plain old 'North' and 'South'. |
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Post by Tony Otim on Feb 16, 2017 12:50:07 GMT
He has promised a full slate. I guess the chances of this transpiring depend somewhat on whether he wins. Yes he's set up his own personality cult party called (I kid thee not) En Marche!Most French political parties do seem to be personality cults at the moment (apart from PS, Les Republicains and EELV). Regrettably it also seems a style of politics that is having great success at the moment globally. |
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Post by mrpastelito on Feb 16, 2017 13:32:29 GMT
Yes he's set up his own personality cult party called (I kid thee not) En Marche!Most French political parties do seem to be personality cults at the moment (apart from PS, Les Republicains and EELV). Regrettably it also seems a style of politics that is having great success at the moment globally. PS and LR are personality cults where the 'personality' spot is currently vacant. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 16, 2017 15:44:47 GMT
EELV used to be a Mamere-Joly cult but now as mrpastelito said about the others, they are floundering for a personality. |
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Post by Hash on Feb 21, 2017 22:56:59 GMT
EELV used to be a Mamere-Joly cult but now as mrpastelito said about the others, they are floundering for a personality. No. |
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(I almost prefer 'Tamar 2' to 'Plymouth Sutton & Devonport'.)
