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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN.
ReplyDeleteBoycotting the vote or a spoiled ballot is equally as viable as voting for the current non-candidates.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of information on their policies is astonishing: potholes or street lights for a £2Bn council is flimsy.
The picture does highlight the lack of turnout from 100 years ago to now: simply put low turnouts mean non-policies and non-candidates and the elections should be declared void and rerun.
In Thanet of course we have the same duffers filling in a form and being elected by dwindling elderly party fanatics.
interested on your views of the ballot 'boxes' with an expandable zipper opening, through which a hand and wrist can easily be inserted...? Open to fraud much?!!! x
ReplyDeleteMcgonigal as returning officer will make sure there's no fraud!
ReplyDeleteYes that new ballot box looks like a travel case, I'm surprised it didn't have wheels on and an extendable handle.
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