Massive postal ballot fraud by New Labour in Blackburn is the one thing of which we can be certain on this election day. I am willing to bet a substantial sum and give odds of three to one that yet again Jack Straw’s rotten borough has the highest percentage of votes cast by post in the country.
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Resident Dissident, 22 May, 10:47 pm; your link doesn’t rank constituencies by the proportion of votes made by postal voting. It ranks them on postal vote take up, which is the proportion of those entitled to vote by post who actually did so.
Ironically, Blackburn does get a mention, on page 13. Blackburn had the highest proportion of rejected ballots, about fourteen times the national average:
To what I said;
R4 Today programme managed to cover several minutes’ worth of election twaddle without once mentioning the Greens. Funny, dat.”…
ANON adds without pause or attribution, what someone else said: I bet they gave a healthy shot of publicity to UKIP though.”
As it happens, they did. In fact the BBC pointed most of its report at the highly localised gains of UKIP and gave an extended interview to a failed UKIP candidate in a London ward. To explain why London was not producing the expected gains for UKIP.
Re the atlanticist credentials of Farage, or not –
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-one-vital-thing-nigel-farage-and-nick-clegg-were-never-going-to-discuss-during-their-eu-debate
A few words from Farageanon on this subject would be welcome. Farage is against globalisation? I think not.
O/T Further
Barclays Bank were fined £26m.
23 May 2014 13:05
Barclays Bank is fined £26m by UK regulators after one of its traders was discovered attempting to fix the price of gold.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27536127
Being called thick by a scouser, there’s a laugh.
@ Clark
“Resident Dissident, 22 May, 10:47 pm; your link doesn’t rank constituencies by the proportion of votes made by postal voting. It ranks them on postal vote take up, which is the proportion of those entitled to vote by post who actually did so.”
I don’t think that you are correct the table makes it clear (as does the text) that the figures are percentages of the electorate – and the text also says that in total 82%+ of those given postal votes actually exercised their vote.
I think labour go door to door and talk those who are too old to care, too disabled to care, too poor to care. “Hi would you like to vote, you really should you know, but if you can’t do we will do it for you, to save you the trouble, just sign here.
The probably start early and stack them in old money bags, to be brought out when needed!
“Quigley, you’re clearly a bit thick – I didn’t say I was disabled.”
You didn’t have to. It is self-evident.
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/150903/England-local-elections-data-report.pdf
Last local elections- highest percentage of postal votes: Sunderland.
No sign of Blackburn with Darwen in the top 5.
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/105896/Plymouth-GE2010-report-web.pdf
2010 General Election.
No sign of Blackburn in the top 20.
Well done, Craig. See the nice chap you’ve got on here citing Breibart. Must be exactly the sort of person you saw yourself writing for.
Ho, hum. Well, at least they’re defrauding each other….
http://www.blackburncitizen.co.uk/news/11226014.EXCLUSIVE__Senior_East_Lancs_politician_suspended_after_election_fraud_accusation/
Their bickering had the effect of letting UKIP in. The father defeated the daughter too.
http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/ukip-cause-big-upset-hyndburn-7167102
just havin a wee wander around … ukip oh No .