I’ll down grade my rant. Some woman who was also stranded in York for hours got her husband to drive down from Durham to collet her. They then kindly offered me and a Virgin Stewardess a lift to Durham, and even dropped me at my hotel on the way. Given all the shit going on in the world, I am genuinely taken aback by their kindness and generosity. True Saints!
I guess that makes a change from dressing up in stockings and the naughty nurse outfit. One day Mrs Duck will catch you...
Just been and voted, and everytime I have voted previously, I had thought that our system is wide open to election fraud. No identification required It is not annoymous voting, as both your election card and your voting form are numbered and cross referenced to your name when your collect your voting form. Therefore who you actually voted for can be traced. We use PENCILS!! - FFS how easy would it be for someone to erase a pencil cross and replace it. Just two people administering each ballot box, and I assume that they need comfort breaks occasionally leaving just one individual responsible for the completed votes. I'd like to see military personnel overseeing the administrators, and completed votes at all times. The postal voting system, already proved to be easily corruptable. Students voting twice, at both their university constituency and their home constituency. Universities registering voters without their knowledge. Maybe I'm paranoid...
No, you are not. We need a whole host of electoral reforms from implementation of Boundary Commission changes through to electoral fraud and, for me, a qualified form of PR that ensures the outrage of major SNP over representation and gross UKIP/Brexit under representation cannot be replicated. I am less concerned with promoting any particular view than ensuring continued faith in democracy. We are nearing a point at which the entire system can be corrupted and we wind up with a form of totalitarian government.
Interesting - I had to check why we use pencil on the voting paper, and it seems to be a tradition from when there was only liquid ink (rather than quick-drying ballpoint ink). So pencil was preferred to avoid ink spillage and smudging, and to avoid a still-wet cross being transferred to a second box when the voting slip is folded, thus looking like two boxes were ticked. You are allowed to take your own pen if concerned. Not arguing or debating above points made by @MadMrB, I was just curious as to why pencils - we do like our traditions.
yeah, well I had my nanny read them to me. Edit: she was really good at doing the machine gun noises.
I used to love those comics in the sixties, my once a week pocket money was what we called a half dollar, or half crown ( 2 shillings and sixpence) 12 and a half pence in today's money, one shilling for the comic and the rest on kets (sweets) and when it was gone you got nowt else till the next pocket money day.
