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I worked out how they'll have filtered me out of the registration process.... I was a signatory for the green candidates nomination papers.

Forgot about that.:facepalm:

I've seen a few rejects that are pretty baffling though, one from a 30 year trade unionist who says he's never supported or voted for another party, his wife's a labour councillor.

Also my brother reckons that the editor of LibDemVoice has been accepted as a labour supporter, has his voting card etc.

Hopefully the end result isn't close enough for this sort of issue to have affected it either way, or the shit's really going to hit the fan from one direction or the other.
 
Wasn't there some kerfuffle over the lib dem leadership election when it was Clegg vs Huhne? Some 'uncounted' postal votes that would have tipped Huhne over the line or something? Didn't come to anything, and it won't here either IMO.
 
killer b said:
and it won't here either IMO.
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I'd agree, in some ways I'm reminded of that kerfuffle involving union business during millibands reign which came to nothing but allowed the PLP to be seen as tough on unions and alienate yet more of their vote.
 
DotCommunist said:
I'd agree, in some ways I'm reminded of that kerfuffle involving union business during millibands reign which came to nothing but allowed the PLP to be seen as tough on unions and alienate yet more of their vote.
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that kerfuffle resulted in the new voting system the Labour party is currently finding itself re-shaped by didn't it?

Either way, there's not going to be a legal challenge - no-one likes a bad loser.
 
killer b said:
that kerfuffle resulted in the new voting system the Labour party is currently finding itself re-shaped by didn't it?

Either way, there's not going to be a legal challenge - no-one likes a bad loser.
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yes but in terms of discovering actual shennanigans and evidence of union bullies rigging an election- nothing right? Just a standard panic. However knowing now that the union bashing has enabled corbyn is making me chuckle wryly.
 
free spirit said:
I was a signatory for the green candidates nomination papers.
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ffs. I signed my neighbour's nomination paper for the local election. All I know of him is: we talk idly about dogs and gardening. All I'm saying on the form is he's a fit and proper person, who is who he says he is. I'd have done the same if he was a Tory

edit to add - he is a Green
 
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Sifta said:
ffs. I signed my neighbour's nomination paper for the local election. All I know of him is: we talk idly about dogs and gardening. All I'm saying on the form is he's a fit and proper person, who is who he says he is. I'd have done the same if he was a Tory
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I'd be asking who the person was standing for before giving my John Hancock. Theres lines I don't cross, and that includes endorsing anything right of lenin. I disowned my uncle for standing as a tory councillor. Man has to have a code.
 
JimW said:
A train station locker has to have a code. A man can get by fine on vanity and delusion.
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the code of the old school:

Never vote tory
Never hit a woman
Never cross a picket line
Always get your round in when you can
Money lent to mates is not lent, if you get it back then thats a bonus
Always give up your seat on the bus if someone needs it more like an old lady or a bloke with sticks or whatever.
Oh and never drink sociably with a copper.
 
DotCommunist said:
the code of the old school:

Never vote tory
Never hit a woman
Never cross a picket line
Always get your round in when you can
Money lent to mates is not lent, if you get it back then thats a bonus
Always give up your seat on the bus if someone needs it more like an old lady or a bloke with sticks or whatever.
Oh and never drink sociably with a copper.
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Did some work with Women Against Pit Closures last year, arranged for young women from a local college to do some filmed interviews for media studies. Final question they asked Betty Cook was 'What advice can you give young people today?' Initially resistant to any answer, on the grounds that their experiences were fundamentally different, she eventually said - 'Learn your history, & never, ever cross a picket line'.
 
DotCommunist said:
the code of the old school:

Never vote tory
Never hit a woman
Never cross a picket line
Always get your round in when you can
Money lent to mates is not lent, if you get it back then thats a bonus
Always give up your seat on the bus if someone needs it more like an old lady or a bloke with sticks or whatever.
Oh and never drink sociably with a copper.
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I drink sociably with a copper.

Your code doesn't preclude you signing a Tory councillor's form, by the way.
 
Andy Burnham’s efforts of late to appeal to Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing voters may have gone to waste after an email blip this morning. Steerpike understands that he has risked the wrath of one of the unions after an official looking email was circulated to members of Unite, the trade union, urging them to vote for Burnham.

With Unite backing Corbyn, members were surprised to receive the email, from Joyce Still and Steve Hibbert of the union’s executive council, asking them to support Burnham in the leadership race:
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Burnham's attempts to court the union vote with an email that appeared to have come from UNITE seem to have backfired, resulting in Unite sending out another email to their membership reaffirming their support for Corbyn.

Meanwhile, Len McCluskey has now gone one step further and sent an email to members reinforcing that the union is backing Corbyn, rather than Burnham. He says to ignore the emails from other candidate’s campaigns which may cause confusion, as Corbyn is the only candidate that the country needs:
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerp...es-itself-from-burnham-camp-after-email-blip/

It's becoming increasingly clear that Corbyn's team are the only team with any idea on how to run a proper campaign.
 
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