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_Tom_ 09-06-2016 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by joeysteele (Post 8702866)
I believe in the fullest democracy in the UK

Since when did you suddenly care for democracy :joker:

Cherie 09-06-2016 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by joeysteele (Post 8702866)
Totally excellent points Jack_ all through.

Maybe extending the deadline to 2 days later was excessive but the govt had to make its mind up whether to do so,most of one day was in fact lost making that decision, so fair enough.

No time was lost Joey as on the 9am news yesterday people were encouraged to continue registering by the PM so a full 48 hours was given

joeysteele 09-06-2016 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by _Tom_ (Post 8702934)
Since when did you suddenly care for democracy :joker:

Excuse me, you do not know me.
I have always believed in democracy, not that we really have that in the UK where a govt can govern with absolute power with only around 3.5 of every 10 votes cast by the people who actually voted.
Thereby totally almost ignoring the votes of the 6+ out of 10 other voters.

What right have you to say I don't care for democracy?

If it is just a rather childish petty dig because I want to remain in the EU,then even there I want and hope for more democracy in that too.

I just believe we can help make that more possibly a fact if we stay in,we certainly cannot do anything to help bring that about if we are out.

bots 09-06-2016 05:40 PM

extending the deadline for registration isn't tipping the balance of voting in any direction. The number of potential voters remains the same. In the time we have remaining till the vote, 10's of thousands will be changing their minds right up till they put their X in the box. I'm not unhappy at them extending the deadline, but it is time for responsible potential voters to take responsibility for their own actions/behaviour.

joeysteele 09-06-2016 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 8702954)
No time was lost Joey as on the 9am news yesterday people were encouraged to continue registering by the PM so a full 48 hours was given

Oh I think you may find there was Cherie, on the Daily Politics after PMQs yesterday, after the PM had said people should keep trying, Andrew Neill said the site was still not working, so for an unknown time yesterday, they could not register.

Which I would presume was why,rightly or wrongly, they included today in the new deadline too.


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