tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post4587801640996244742..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Afternoon Live BlogIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-25809406213281774722008-05-03T13:15:00.000+01:002008-05-03T13:15:00.000+01:00I finally got round to reading Zoe Williams' piece...I finally got round to reading Zoe Williams' piece on Friday - on account that the Guardian in Scotland seemed to forget to put Thursdays G2 in, and popped it inside Fridays G2 instead. If only it were a national election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-7867690842081145802008-05-02T12:17:00.000+01:002008-05-02T12:17:00.000+01:00Alex said..."it's not new. It's always been done. ...<B>Alex said...</B><BR/><BR/>"it's not new. It's always been done. We do not have a secret ballot in the UK, merely a private one. Your polling number is written on the counterfoil to your ballot paper so that they can be matched up in the event of a court order if fraud is suspected. It almost never happens and there is no routine matching up"<BR/><BR/>Correct. Though there have been cases in the past when Returning Officers stayed up all night to give MI5 access to the votes so they could find out who had voted for Communist candidates. Entirely illegal of course.<BR/><BR/><B>Dave H. said...</B><BR/><BR/>"How would these unique identifiers prevent repetition of the numerous postal vote frauds?"<BR/><BR/>The system is not really designed to prevent nulab encouragement of wholesale fraud. When a County court issues an order the ballot papers may be examined to find which papers require examination. A court would then decide whether it matters; either the result is upheld or a rerun of the election is ordered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-21948617883572820862008-05-02T10:38:00.000+01:002008-05-02T10:38:00.000+01:00Labour MPs were saying all night that the vote mea...Labour MPs were saying all night that the vote meant the Tories had to tell people the minutiae of Tory policy. I think the Tories should keep their policies to themselves and NOT give them away to Labour, the party of no ideas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-3427806835412197212008-05-02T03:10:00.000+01:002008-05-02T03:10:00.000+01:00Just a footnote. The BBC is supposed to be politic...Just a footnote. The BBC is supposed to be politically balanced, isn't it?<BR/>I think BBC producers should give serious thought to replacing one of Andrew Neil's companions on his Thursday night show - it's not really fair to have two Labour supporters on every week, is it? By the way, what's this fixation that BBC politics producers have with obscure rock 'stars'? One always crops up, invariably Labour supporters and mostly unintelligible.robbinghoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256496659250934981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68417827605660325152008-05-02T02:31:00.000+01:002008-05-02T02:31:00.000+01:00What an absolute turncoat creep is Michael Portill...What an absolute turncoat creep is Michael Portillo. A really greasy performance on the BBC tonight. Why don't the BBC just hand out 'Vote Ken' rosettes to everyone and have done with it? And pass on the comment please that the performances of Vine and Maitliss have been cringe-making.<BR/>Thank goodness that there is a real professional there - Dimbleby knows what he's doing.robbinghoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256496659250934981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-64627476078894251622008-05-02T00:47:00.000+01:002008-05-02T00:47:00.000+01:00Tessa Jowell looks like a bulldog licking piss off...Tessa Jowell looks like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle.<BR/><BR/>Labour meltdown!<BR/><BR/>I am so happy and I am not even on drugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-56455590914980337642008-05-02T00:32:00.000+01:002008-05-02T00:32:00.000+01:00Yak40 This is based on evidence. What kind of idio...Yak40 This is based on evidence. What kind of idiot thinks 2000 was not stolen. With 2004 Greg Palast a very reliable journalist has found evidence Ohio was stolen. Do not put down the truth with you insane claims. Patronising bully. You're the reason morons like Bush get away with it. I suppose cash for questions in the tory party was just a UFO fantasy. Do not put down legitmate claims you patronising boreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-45609861378162379602008-05-02T00:03:00.000+01:002008-05-02T00:03:00.000+01:00I am dissapointed you use the phrase feminiazi. Th...I am dissapointed you use the phrase feminiazi. That is an offensive phrase to use. To refer to a feminist as a feminazi is wrong. You may dissagree wiht her. But this is wrong. I read this blog, and i enjoy reading it. I know I am hardly the most dignified indiviudual myself by such phrases are wrong. Dissagree with her if you want but do not pander to the extremists who often use this phrase. Please do not use this phrase. I am not a women or even that bothered with feminism. But the phrase feminazi was used by that evil BNP guy. Do not use their lingo. I am sorry but I think that is wrong to use such a phrase.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-25436843368478766032008-05-01T23:14:00.000+01:002008-05-01T23:14:00.000+01:00stuart said... "@5.47 update - if true, this is a ...stuart said... <BR/>"@5.47 update - if true, this is a strange decision. They are both part of the same Assembly seat."<BR/><BR/>Nothing strange about it. It simply means that potential Lib Dem voters in Richmond need more prodding than those in Kingston.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14745780768017473822008-05-01T22:20:00.001+01:002008-05-01T22:20:00.001+01:00@5.47 update - if true, this is a strange decision...@5.47 update - if true, this is a strange decision. They are both part of the same Assembly seat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-3336877935485958742008-05-01T22:20:00.000+01:002008-05-01T22:20:00.000+01:00BBC News online's Have Your Say:Did you vote in th...BBC News online's Have Your Say:<BR/><BR/>Did you vote in the local election in England & Wales?<BR/><BR/>Reply:<BR/><BR/>Thursday, 1 May, 2008, 21:11 GMT 22:11 UK <BR/><BR/>"Yep. Like millions of others, I suspect, I voted Conservative to give Gordon a kicking! <BR/><BR/>First tme I recall seeing electors practically skipping into the polling station for a local election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-23538901699193052242008-05-01T22:14:00.000+01:002008-05-01T22:14:00.000+01:00Just appeared on BBC's Have Your Say:Did you vote ...Just appeared on BBC's Have Your Say:<BR/><BR/>Did you vote in the local election in England & Wales?<BR/>Polling stations are now closed in the local elections for England and Wales. Who did you vote for?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-89025309733661611532008-05-01T21:48:00.000+01:002008-05-01T21:48:00.000+01:00City Hall? Nothing will happen there till tomorrow...City Hall? Nothing will happen there till tomorrow afternoon when the ballot papers are brought in from the constituencies for the final collation.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-46999257524317972062008-05-01T21:27:00.000+01:002008-05-01T21:27:00.000+01:00'Off for a couple of ours to attend some serious B...'Off for a couple of ours to attend some serious Boris business'...you are such a show off mate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-57341586479660254152008-05-01T20:25:00.000+01:002008-05-01T20:25:00.000+01:00Re. Steve Richards' piece, indeed, it's on a par w...Re. Steve Richards' piece, indeed, it's on a par with the attitude of the secretary of the writers' union in East Germany, as satirised by Bertold Brecht 'Why not dissolve the people/And elect another?' <BR/><BR/>I expect that, in as much as it has any effect, it'll be counterproductive, like The Guardian telling people in Ohio to vote for Kerry.<BR/><BR/>Indeed, when Johann Hari attacked the Green Party as being more Eurosceptical than UKIP in the last Euro-elections, he persuaded me, as a Labour Party member opposed to the European Constitution, to go out and vote Green.<BR/><BR/>As a centrist social democrat from a lower middle-class background, I share entirely your other contributor's dislike of the 'priggish left', or what I suppose we might call 'Disgusted of Muswell Hill'. Still, Richards has some way to go before he matches Madeleine Bunting for malevolent fatuity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17254165504444468322008-05-01T20:10:00.000+01:002008-05-01T20:10:00.000+01:00"I am a Labour party member in the South West cons...<I>"I am a Labour party member in the South West constituency of London and I spent the morning and early afternoon <B>knocking up voters</B>."</I><BR/><BR/>Well, so long as the CSA doesn't find out, you should be in the clear. <BR/><BR/>Taking party loyalty a bit <B>too</B> far though..?JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62393929332308900682008-05-01T19:45:00.000+01:002008-05-01T19:45:00.000+01:00I'm just back from kicking Gordon's *rse....er, vo...I'm just back from kicking Gordon's *rse....er, voting...and all ten people I saw coming out of my local polling station in Harlow told me they'd kicked Gordon's *rse too'<BR/><BR/>Wee Gordon, you are going to have a very - well deserved - sore bum by tomorrow morning :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-58749128492926640402008-05-01T19:32:00.000+01:002008-05-01T19:32:00.000+01:00So Iain was a candidate for a major political part...So Iain was a candidate for a major political party in 2005 and was unaware that polling numbers were recorded on counterfoils?<BR/><BR/>Well I never.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35181881199754552432008-05-01T19:05:00.000+01:002008-05-01T19:05:00.000+01:00On the Circle Line home tonight a couple of Christ...On the Circle Line home tonight a couple of Christian Alliance loonies harassing commuters, handing out newsletters and loudly urging us to produce a "last minute miracle" by electing Alan Craig. One of them even started singing hymns.<BR/><BR/>Handing out leaflets at stations is one thing, but doing it on the trains is beyond the pale. If it isn't actually against the law it should be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-24737986109444550132008-05-01T19:00:00.000+01:002008-05-01T19:00:00.000+01:00I lived within London boundaries for many years, b...I lived within London boundaries for many years, but now a little way beyond and can't vote. My daughter has lived in London for six years and hasn't bothered to register to vote. I love her dearly, but politically she's a waste of space, as are most of her friends. If Ken Livingdeadstone wins, she will complain that she & her ilk never had a say. I will stay quiet for the sake of family harmony.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile I am on my knees praying that Boris will be victorious :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-29094399298258030412008-05-01T18:40:00.000+01:002008-05-01T18:40:00.000+01:00hi Lab canidate from South Wales2nd quick post of ...hi Lab canidate from South Wales<BR/>2nd quick post of the day; turn out really bad despite it being a very sunny evening - we will do very well to get turn out up to 25%. i fear 20-21% more likely. still, a small increase from 19% in 2004. <BR/><BR/>hard to say what effect this will have on the results but i think BNP will do suprisingly well - prob around 300 votes out of 2000. My prediction? well, 4 lab candidates and an independent well ahead of the other 10 candidates and four of the top 5 will be elected. Which 4 depends on 1000 small things. i suspect i will be either 4th or 5th<BR/><BR/>i am sending this via a blackberry - the wonders of the modern age continue to marvel. <BR/><BR/>i will try to update later in the eveningAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-53422730100896037832008-05-01T18:32:00.000+01:002008-05-01T18:32:00.000+01:00Oh No !! Not another couple of hours without updat...Oh No !! Not another couple of hours without updates or comments...<BR/><BR/>Yawn - this blog is becoming a bore..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-680644219477631762008-05-01T18:29:00.000+01:002008-05-01T18:29:00.000+01:00@ Stuart"and not a sign that they have given up an...@ Stuart<BR/><BR/><I>"and not a sign that they have given up and gone home."</I><BR/><BR/>Such a pity - and a shame they haven't taken the entire PLP with them.Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-67127514425225924082008-05-01T18:21:00.000+01:002008-05-01T18:21:00.000+01:00Anon May 01, 2008 4:42 PM"Your ballot paper will b...<I>Anon May 01, 2008 4:42 PM<BR/>"Your ballot paper will be stamped to validate it and numbered to combat fraud."</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>If anything is stamped or written on the ballot paper apart from your cross and the printed content, the paper is invalidated.<BR/>See link below (para.4)<BR/><A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7377724.stm" REL="nofollow">BBC report on Lambeth polling station inquiry</A>Twighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698620636313191152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-21403060004820411282008-05-01T18:20:00.000+01:002008-05-01T18:20:00.000+01:00Lady Wyatt was lying?Lady Wyatt was lying?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com