When will indyref2 happen?

[The DA]

2 hours ago, NotThePars said:

 

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Miles of lorries parked crossing the border through Kent.

 

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Oban...

[Ira Gaines]

2 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:

What sort of bellend would spoil their ballot?  You could just not go to the polling station.  That's just weird.

This is a fair point.

We hear "it's recorded" but who actually gives a shit? It's a pointless exercise. 

[Carnoustie Young Guvnor]

1 minute ago, Andre Drazen said:

This is a fair point.

We hear "it's recorded" but who actually gives a shit? It's a pointless exercise. 

Aye you're not making a statement, you're just wasting your own time.  All you've achieved is some random in a polling centre will shrug their shoulders for a fraction of a second and think 'what a fanny' then move on.  

[Ira Gaines]

I understand the BASE point of wanting an opinion heard. But ultimately it leads to folk not caring what you did. 

[welshbairn]

3 minutes ago, Andre Drazen said:

This is a fair point.

We hear "it's recorded" but who actually gives a shit? It's a pointless exercise. 

You're just counted alongside those who find drawing an X in a box a bit tricky.

[welshbairn]

3 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Am I right in thinking Ad Lib does some sort of house of commons job?

Librarian.

[welshbairn]

3 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

thats a bit mad isn't it? working in the home of votes and not liking voting.

I briefly worked in Macdonald's but didn't eat the food. Actually that's a lie, I stuffed myself. 

[oneteaminglasgow]

3 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

thats a bit mad isn't it? working in the home of votes and not liking voting.

Depends what constituency he’s in I think. Some of them are won by about 30000 odd votes, what’s the actual point of turning up.

That and f**k knows what I’d do if I was given the choice of Tories, Sir Keith or some Lib Dem weirdo and nothing else. Doubt I could bring myself to vote for any of them.

[Gordon EF]

When I lived in England I voted Green just for a bit of a laugh. I lived in the same constituency as the BAE nuclear sub manufacturing dock and it's probably somewhere above 600 on their 'target list'.

It was either that, draw a cock and balls on my ballot or just don't bother. Pretty close call tbh.

Edited November 19, 2020 by Gordon EF

[DiegoDiego]

You make no point.  Have done both those things as it happens.

What a coincidence, there was another boy on here a few years back claiming the same thing

[Carnoustie Young Guvnor]

9 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said:

2 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:

You make no point.  Have done both those things as it happens.

What a coincidence, there was another boy on here a few years back claiming the same thing

Small world

[Ira Gaines]

4 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Na. Vote till you boke. There's always a least worst option.

Not even that long ago, I seen things this way. So I at least understand it.

But I don't think I buy into it anymore. 

[Wee-Bey]

I usually vote but have drawn a cock and balls a couple of times, as is my unalienable democratic right.

It's looking like cock and balls for the constituency vote and Green on the list next year tbqfhwy.

[oneteaminglasgow]

8 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Na. Vote till you boke. There's always a least worst option.

I agree with that to an extent, but if you combine the two and say that the Tories are going to win the seat by 20000 votes regardless of what you do, does it make any difference if you vote Labour or if you spoil the ballot?

For what it’s worth, I’d vote Green if I lived down south and they ran a candidate.

Edit: I’d vote Green up here too, but where I live is fairly close between 2 candidates, and one of those candidates is Alex Cole-Hamilton so my hands are tied.

Edited November 19, 2020 by oneteaminglasgow

[Ira Gaines]

ALL of that is fair and I can't argue against it. And I think in Scotland, we have enough options to go with it. But it doesn't work that way in a lot of places and it's just too simplistic. 

[NotThePars]

This is a fair point.
We hear "it's recorded" but who actually gives a shit? It's a pointless exercise. 

There’s a few places in America which publish the spoiled ballots and it was funny to see there was like 21 people in one county who said “I’m with her” and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2020.

It would be good if they recorded the spoiled ballots so we could see what folk were saying.

thats a bit mad isn't it? working in the home of votes and not liking voting.

I’m a sad case who likes the act of voting and at least going to spoil it means taking part and having the mildest of laughs.

FYI I haven’t spoiled a ballot yet and the one time I didn’t cast a vote was cause I wasn’t even registered

[Ira Gaines]

1 minute ago, NotThePars said:

 

There’s a few places in America which publish the spoiled ballots and it was funny to see there was like 21 people in one county who said “I’m with her” and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2020.

It would be good if they recorded the spoiled ballots so we could see what folk were saying.
 

 

I'd love to see it.

"We got 63 cock and balls in Inverclyde."

Sound.

[Ad Lib]

3 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:

What sort of bellend would spoil their ballot?  You could just not go to the polling station.  That's just weird.

My polling station was literally right outside the station I use to go to work. I wanted to register a protest vote in a safe seat.

[dirty dingus]

36 minutes ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said:

I usually vote but have drawn a cock and balls a couple of times, as is my unalienable democratic right.

It's looking like cock and balls for the constituency vote and Green on the list next year tbqfhwy.

I find the pencil to small for doing some proper cock art so I just place my combo onto an ink pad then plop them on the voting sheet in the booth

 

disclaimer - don't wear light coloured chinos when voting

Edited November 19, 2020 by dirty dingus

[cyderspaceman]

The government has confirmed £300m in emergency funding for spectator sports in England, with rugby union by far the largest beneficiary.

Is that a devolved thing?

eta      “Britain is a sports powerhouse, and this government will do everything we can to help our precious sports and clubs make it through Covid.”

Edited November 19, 2020 by cyderspaceman