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[Grendel]

What’s going on?

Major concerns raised over voting at Gorton and Denton by-election

www.independent.co.uk

 

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[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

People vote Reform partly because of these lazy slurs people like you make and offer zero alternatives to the people who will vote for them. You would just come across if you did talk to the average Reform voter as a condescending snob frankly.

If they considered us to be condescending snobs then that's on them. If loads of people thought the Earth was flat should we just pander to that? From the G&D by-election I thought you weren't a fan of pandering to people and telling them what they want to hear just to get their votes?

If people want to call me a condescending twat because they can't be arsed to engage their brain, so be it.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

If they considered us to be condescending snobs then that's on them. If loads of people thought the Earth was flat should we just pander to that? From the G&D by-election I thought you weren't a fan of pandering to people and telling them what they want to hear just to get their votes?

If people want to call me a condescending twat because they can't be arsed to engage their brain, so be it.

Farage dresses like a member of the landed gentry to be clear.

 

[Grendel]

I don't believe I've said there aren't any dodgy fuckers in Labour or the Greens. Sadly they are in all walks of life.

But reform just seems to be absolutely chock full of them.

As I say, crying electoral fraud is at best pathetic and at worst dangerous.

Ooops

Labour want officials to examine reports over voting in Gorton and Denton by-election

Labour chairwoman Anna Turley reacts to a report by Democracy Volunteers that claimed to observe high levels of ‘family voting’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[skybluetony176]

The meltdown on the right has been hilarious today. The best one being George Galloway handed the Greens the win by not fielding a candidate and then backing the Greens. Unfortunately the numbers don’t add up. The workers party got 3766 votes at the GE. Even on the assumption that all 3766 voters only voted Green on Galloways say so which in itself is a big assumption the fact remains that even without those votes the Greens still would have won by about 700 votes. Unless you want to believe 3766 voters who voted for the workers party last time would have voted for Reform had Galloway not told them to vote Green, which is just ridiculous.

Bunch of sore losing entitled melts.

 

[Grendel]

The meltdown on the right has been hilarious today. The best one being George Galloway handed the Greens the win by not fielding a candidate and then backing the Greens. Unfortunately the numbers don’t add up. The workers party got 3766 votes at the GE. Even on the assumption that all 3766 voters only voted Green on Galloways say so which in itself is a big assumption the fact remains that even without those votes the Greens still would have won by about 700 votes. Unless you want to believe 3766 voters who voted for the workers party last time would have voted for Reform had Galloway not told them to vote Green, which is just ridiculous.

Bunch of sore losing entitled melts.

Where you sitting tomorrow Tonester? Assume you managed to get a ticket.

 

[PVA]

Ooops

Labour want officials to examine reports over voting in Gorton and Denton by-election

Labour chairwoman Anna Turley reacts to a report by Democracy Volunteers that claimed to observe high levels of ‘family voting’

www.independent.co.uk

Oops what?

As I said, no reports from the council of this apparent electoral fraud. No reports from the police. No reports from any polling staff.

Why wait till after to raise it?

 

[Grendel]

Oops what?

As I said, no reports from the council of this apparent electoral fraud. No reports from the police. No reports from any polling staff.

Why wait till after to raise it?

Eh? The volunteer group are entirely independent and said they made a decision to only report after the event as they felt they didn’t feel comfortable confronting the people they suspected until after the election.

Why has Labour now commented?

 

[Philosoraptor]

Look's like Starmer has had all his Union flags confiscated after this by-election mayhem.

 

[PVA]

Eh? The volunteer group are entirely independent and said they made a decision to only report after the event as they felt they didn’t feel comfortable confronting the people they suspected until after the election.

Why has Labour now commented?

That's a pathetic excuse. They didn't have to confront the people they suspected - they should have called the police if they witnessed a crime, and/or report it to staff. They did neither.

 

[Nick]

That's a pathetic excuse. They didn't have to confront the people they suspected - they should have called the police if they witnessed a crime, and/or report it to staff. They did neither.

Mr Ault reportedly told Sky News that observers “did raise the issue of family voting with individual presiding officers during the day before we left or when they were not busy.”

 

[PVA]

Won't let me quote you there @Nick for some reason.

That's such a non committal statement. They 'raised the issue' - great, so did they report individual instances and offences? Or did they just say 'look out for family voting'


Electoral fraud is such a serious issue, the police should have been called immediately. It just doesn't add up whatsoever.

 

[Grendel]

Won't let me quote you there @Nick for some reason.

That's such a non committal statement. They 'raised the issue' - great, so did they report individual instances and offences? Or did they just say 'look out for family voting'


Electoral fraud is such a serious issue, the police should have been called immediately. It just doesn't add up whatsoever.

So these volunteers are lying? The guardian who are now reporting it are lying?

Wow!

 

[PVA]

So these volunteers are lying? The guardian who are now reporting it are lying?

Wow!

Missing the point as usual.

Thicker than the glass at the zoo.

 

[Grendel]

Missing the point as usual.

Thicker than the glass at the zoo.

It’s clear you are struggling on this one.

 

[Nick]

Won't let me quote you there @Nick for some reason.

That's such a non committal statement. They 'raised the issue' - great, so did they report individual instances and offences? Or did they just say 'look out for family voting'


Electoral fraud is such a serious issue, the police should have been called immediately. It just doesn't add up whatsoever.

Ay?

they should have called the police if they witnessed a crime, and/or report it to staff. They did neither.

did raise the issue of family voting with individual presiding officers during the day before we left or when they were not busy.

Thats literally reporting it to staff.

 

[Grendel]

Ay?





Thats literally reporting it to staff.

Police are now looking at the evidence, I think to fair to him it must be devastating to learn his hero Starmer is total shite and even less popular than old Boris

 

[skybluetony176]

You’d be stupid to claim “family voting” doesn’t happen, it’s always happened, I remember my gran used to have to vote for whoever my grandad told as he was the man of the house. It happens, it’s always happened and it always will happen.

The suggestion here is that it only benefitted one side, which is of course complete bollocks.

At the last general election my eldest missed out on being eligible to vote by a matter of weeks being one of the youngest in her school year. One of her friends was old enough was driven to the polling station by her parents and told in no uncertain terms to vote Reform, which she did. The only example I personally know of since my grandfather died which led to my gran voting Labour for the first time in her life as this particular grandfather was a Tory.

Who’s to say that the family voting apparently witnessed wasn’t right wing extremists making their family vote Reform? After all, reform won over 10000 votes and nearly 29% of the vote share. Surely no one is dumb enough to believe that not one single husband wasn’t telling the wife and kids to vote Reform and then either supervising their postal votes or chauffeuring them together to the polling station with instructions on how to vote.

I’d also point out that young voters really don’t need that much encouragement to vote green, most of them are already there. Take my daughters friend for instance, she left home for Uni, is now in a different environment where GB news isn’t the staple and is now a Green Party member who’s more than a little embarrassed that she allowed her parents to strong arm her into voting Reform at the general election.

We’ve also been here before with Boris’ voter ID reforms to stop people voting by claiming they’re someone else at the polling station. When the actual data came out in those circumstances (aside from the fact that it happened so little it changed absolutely fuck all in any election anywhere ever in the UK) it turned out that the biggest perpetrators were on the right.

 

[Grendel]

You’d be stupid to claim “family voting” doesn’t happen, it’s always happened, I remember my gran used to have to vote for whoever my grandad told as he was the man of the house. It happens, it’s always happened and it always will happen.

The suggestion here is that it only benefitted one side, which is of course complete bollocks.

At the last general election my eldest missed out on being eligible to vote by a matter of weeks being one of the youngest in her school year. One of her friends was old enough was driven to the polling station by her parents and told in no uncertain terms to vote Reform, which she did. The only example I personally know of since my grandfather died which led to my gran voting Labour for the first time in her life as this particular grandfather was a Tory.

Who’s to say that the family voting apparently witnessed wasn’t right wing extremists making their family vote Reform? After all, reform won over 10000 votes and nearly 29% of the vote share. Surely no one is dumb enough to believe that not one single husband wasn’t telling the wife and kids to vote Reform and then either supervising their postal votes or chauffeuring them together to the polling station with instructions on how to vote.

I’d also point out that young voters really don’t need that much encouragement to vote green, most of them are already there. Take my daughters friend for instance, she left home for Uni, is now in a different environment where GB news isn’t the staple and is now a Green Party member who’s more than a little embarrassed that she allowed her parents to strong arm her into voting Reform at the general election.

We’ve also been here before with Boris’ voter ID reforms to stop people voting by claiming they’re someone else at the polling station. When the actual data came out in those circumstances (aside from the fact that it happened so little it changed absolutely fuck all in any election anywhere ever in the UK) it turned out that the biggest perpetrators were on the right.

You do know what the actual term means as an offence?

 

[rob9872]

You’d be stupid to claim “family voting” doesn’t happen, it’s always happened, I remember my gran used to have to vote for whoever my grandad told as he was the man of the house. It happens, it’s always happened and it always will happen.

The suggestion here is that it only benefitted one side, which is of course complete bollocks.

At the last general election my eldest missed out on being eligible to vote by a matter of weeks being one of the youngest in her school year. One of her friends was old enough was driven to the polling station by her parents and told in no uncertain terms to vote Reform, which she did. The only example I personally know of since my grandfather died which led to my gran voting Labour for the first time in her life as this particular grandfather was a Tory.

Who’s to say that the family voting apparently witnessed wasn’t right wing extremists making their family vote Reform? After all, reform won over 10000 votes and nearly 29% of the vote share. Surely no one is dumb enough to believe that not one single husband wasn’t telling the wife and kids to vote Reform and then either supervising their postal votes or chauffeuring them together to the polling station with instructions on how to vote.

I’d also point out that young voters really don’t need that much encouragement to vote green, most of them are already there. Take my daughters friend for instance, she left home for Uni, is now in a different environment where GB news isn’t the staple and is now a Green Party member who’s more than a little embarrassed that she allowed her parents to strong arm her into voting Reform at the general election.

We’ve also been here before with Boris’ voter ID reforms to stop people voting by claiming they’re someone else at the polling station. When the actual data came out in those circumstances (aside from the fact that it happened so little it changed absolutely fuck all in any election anywhere ever in the UK) it turned out that the biggest perpetrators were on the right.

As I understand it, family voting us just a reference and was witnessed at the ballot box not someone telling their spouse or friends who to vote for.