butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Do graffiti instead of voting.
EU Referendum: EXIT POLL
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That wasn't meant like that! I meant that was the only message i could get from that pic.Ouch!
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
There are a number of ways to interpret that, but my bet is that the author of this graffito adheres to the theory that voting in pencil allows Them to erase your mark and change it. This is something They apparently take the trouble to do when They want to rig votes.
You'll no doubt have seen the security vans parked up on polling night, with the staff furiously rubbing away...
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Certainly makes the case for low tech paper & wooden polling booth. Just imagine if we could vote online from smartphones? I'm sure GCHQ would draft in extra staff at election time.
Gets coat, puts permanent marker in pocket & goes to polling station...
Gets coat, puts permanent marker in pocket & goes to polling station...
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Isn't that whole "use a pen, they will rub out your vote" thing a joke started by Al Murray?
Mighty be wrong, but I think they use wax pencils anyway, which can't easily be erased.
Mighty be wrong, but I think they use wax pencils anyway, which can't easily be erased.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
No, it's been around a lot longer than Al Murray. But it is barking.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Not that they couldn't rub out your vote: they could. But they don't.
I don't know what feeling european (or british for that matter) means anyway. Noone has defined the qualities involved and so I have no point of reference nor any means to make a comparison.
Remain seems to endorse the current government, help TTIP along, support a capitalist institution, but also not make things worse.
Exit seems to endorse the far right that has taken over this debate, facilitate an even more austere tory regime, support capitalists here, and not make things remain the same.
That's about as far as I can get. Which is the correct choice please?
Me? The 13th Duke of Wybourne, here, at the EU Referendum Polling station? With my reputation...?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Well, you live on an archipelago called the British Isles, which is part of European geography. Quite what that means as to states and parliaments and supranational bodies is anyone's guess.
If this was an opinion poll about whether you like immigrants it'd be quite easy, but it isn't. What it asks on the paper is whether you think the UK should stay in the EU or not.
Whether the result will be read as answering just that question or any number of others is a different matter.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
rumour has it nigel farage pulled out of last nght's referendum debate not, as claimed, to have dinner with his son, but rather because he was in the recovery position having drunk several over the eight
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
which way did they feel it had been decided in?
Plumdaff
joy in people
They both implicitly and explicitly suggested that it's a Remain stitch up.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
and how has this stitch up been er stitched up?
Plumdaff
joy in people
I haven't asked, I'll have a look later and report back.
Sewing machine staffed by Romanian children?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
i think this is where we discover* the relationship between being a 'Kipper and being a conspiraloon.
*not really, but its nice to pretend we gave them the benefit of the doubt
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Yes, but we are allowed to discuss the appearance of politicians at polling stations (that they are there, not what they look like, from what I understand) or the weather.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'm not voting till I need to go shop or its 9 o'clock. Whichever comes first. shop/booth on same street 
but its still out. I've read and re-read the arguments, ignored both sets of swivels and spivs campaigning and so my decision is the same as its been since ages ago
but its still out. I've read and re-read the arguments, ignored both sets of swivels and spivs campaigning and so my decision is the same as its been since ages ago
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
I know I should vote leave, but struggle to stomach doing so. Right now it's 50/50 if I even go to the polling station. And if I do its 50/50 between actually voting and just writing abuse on the ballet paper.
Yep, me too though I wouldn't bother going to the polling station to spoil my vote.
YouSir
Retired from Urban
Wot I wrote on Facebook...
Whichever way you vote today I hope you do it with at least some disgust in your heart. This entire referendum has been the most propaganda driven, corrupt, opportunist, dishonest, fear mongering, undemocratic and manipulative process the already dubious political landscape of this country has seen in my lifetime. Even the Scottish IndyRef, which was defined by threats and veiled abuse had at least some voices to balance the arguments. This has had none.
I'm voting Leave, for what I believe are good, moral and practical reasons, some of which I've mentioned. I know plenty of people who're voting Remain though for reasons which they find equally good, moral and practical. I even agree with some of their motivations even if in the end I'm not going to follow their lead. On a national level though there's been no legitimate discussion, no acknowledgement of the real debates to be had on either side. Politicians, media and academia have all taken part in a race to the bottom to insult, patronise and lie about their opposites. A vote for Leave has been press-ganged into being a vote for Farage, Johnson and the far right, somehow inherently racist and bigoted regardless of reasons. A vote for Remain has become the talking point of Cameron and Osborne, threats from Capital and patronising manipulation about faster lines at passport control or glib and hollow declarations of fixed-grin niceness. Like a shit advert for a shit chain store. The height of discourse on both sides ending up as a game of Top Trumps over which side has the bigger bastards involved, rather than which vote will be best for us.
On both sides it's the right who've led the debate, who've been gifted control of it and allowed to use blackmail, blame, bigotry and panic as their tools. On both sides legitimate discussion has been so negligible that people have seemed genuinely surprised to find simple, objective debates being had. The usual expectation being declarations from Bono, Beckham, Keith Chegwin and Bob fucking Geldof - political heavyweights of our time - that are supposed to sway us great unwashed into voting as those in power see fit.
So when you vote I hope it's with disgust at the way we've all been treated while making a decision that'll effect this country for the next century. And more than that I hope that you cast your own vote, the one you know to be right, rather than the one that's been distilled through the many, many layers of their bullshit.
Whichever way you vote today I hope you do it with at least some disgust in your heart. This entire referendum has been the most propaganda driven, corrupt, opportunist, dishonest, fear mongering, undemocratic and manipulative process the already dubious political landscape of this country has seen in my lifetime. Even the Scottish IndyRef, which was defined by threats and veiled abuse had at least some voices to balance the arguments. This has had none.
I'm voting Leave, for what I believe are good, moral and practical reasons, some of which I've mentioned. I know plenty of people who're voting Remain though for reasons which they find equally good, moral and practical. I even agree with some of their motivations even if in the end I'm not going to follow their lead. On a national level though there's been no legitimate discussion, no acknowledgement of the real debates to be had on either side. Politicians, media and academia have all taken part in a race to the bottom to insult, patronise and lie about their opposites. A vote for Leave has been press-ganged into being a vote for Farage, Johnson and the far right, somehow inherently racist and bigoted regardless of reasons. A vote for Remain has become the talking point of Cameron and Osborne, threats from Capital and patronising manipulation about faster lines at passport control or glib and hollow declarations of fixed-grin niceness. Like a shit advert for a shit chain store. The height of discourse on both sides ending up as a game of Top Trumps over which side has the bigger bastards involved, rather than which vote will be best for us.
On both sides it's the right who've led the debate, who've been gifted control of it and allowed to use blackmail, blame, bigotry and panic as their tools. On both sides legitimate discussion has been so negligible that people have seemed genuinely surprised to find simple, objective debates being had. The usual expectation being declarations from Bono, Beckham, Keith Chegwin and Bob fucking Geldof - political heavyweights of our time - that are supposed to sway us great unwashed into voting as those in power see fit.
So when you vote I hope it's with disgust at the way we've all been treated while making a decision that'll effect this country for the next century. And more than that I hope that you cast your own vote, the one you know to be right, rather than the one that's been distilled through the many, many layers of their bullshit.
