A vote for 'Error!Error! Filename not specified' is a vote for WTF
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As many are probably aware, today is the day when the majority of eligible voters in the UK can't be bothered to vote for who is going to rule over them for the next five years. But a few of us actually do make an effort to vote.
There's one candidate who appears to be running under the banner of a TDWTF-type political party:
Not my photo. And no, I don't know what party it's meant to be.
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Fixed it for you. It's so fucking difficult to hit that little curly-arrow icon in the toolbar.
In any case, you don't vote for queens or dukes or whatever, so I don't see the point of even going.
A bigger WTF, why do the candidate names end in what appears to be GUIDs? Or Canadian ZIP codes? Or Windows activation codes? Or something? "I'm going to vote for 13 6BJ, fuck that RH12 5HB guy!"
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Fixed it for you. It's so fucking difficult to hit that little curly-arrow icon in the toolbar.
Me? Not hard at all. To the guy who tweeted it? He probably did it from a phone without thinking about the orientation; I just copypastad the image in Chrome.
@blakeyrat said:In any case, you don't vote for queens or dukes or whatever, so I don't see the point of even going.
Royalty and nobles have no real say in how the country is run.
@blakeyrat said:A bigger WTF, why do the candidate names end in what appears to be GUIDs? Or Canadian ZIP codes? Or Windows activation codes? Or something? "I'm going to vote for 13 6BJ, fuck that RH12 5HB guy!"
That's actually the postcode at the end of the address; the photo doesn't have the candidates' names.
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Royalty and nobles have no real say in how the country is run.
What is the House of Lords?
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the postcode at the end of the address
And from the one with the first part available, I can tell that's in Surrey, fairly close to me
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What is the House of Lords?
Oh yeah, forgot about them… there are ways to bypass them though.Still doesn't change the fact that royalty has no real say.
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What is the House of Lords?
Are we playing Jeopardy?
the postcode
So that you can go and beat the hell out of the guy you've elected when it (inevitably) turns out they don't do squat?
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So that you can go and beat the hell out of the guy you've elected when it (inevitably) turns out they don't do squat?
I guess it's an option; AFAIAA, it's never actually happened
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That's actually the postcode at the end of the address; the photo doesn't have the candidates' names.
So you know how your candidate looks like and you know his adress but his normal identification - the real name - is hidden from your election process?
Represented By: "Hello, my name is under the bridge north of that little lake 24. I am representing the hobo party."
Also Represented By: "Hello, I am a convicted murderer. I will only give you my adress but not my name so the police can't find me"
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So you know how your candidate looks like and you know his adress but his normal identification - the real name - is hidden from your election process?
Assuming you're not
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The candidates' names are listed on the ballot paper; it's just that photo doesn't include that bit
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I am indeed
ing. But I am having fun imagining an election process like that.Filed Under: The Guy with Filename not specified was clearly also from the hobo-party!
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So that you can go and beat the hell out of the guy you've elected when it (inevitably) turns out they don't do squat?
It's usually their official office address in the constituency, not their home address. So going and beating them up would be an option, but you'd need to be there on days when they're in the constituency, and then only in normal office hours…
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Related: A polling station
Greenwich Heritage Centre at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, hence the tank
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only in normal office hours
Again they are hurting normal working people ... we will never have a chance to show up at the local beat-the-MP event
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Again they are hurting normal working people ... we will never have a chance to show up at the local beat-the-MP event
Take a day off. Bring the whole family!
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Take a day off.
I'm not going to spend my paid holidays on such a thing!
Couldn't they do like the shops and stay open later on one day in the week? We could make it festive and add some fireworks and a band.
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We could make it festive and add some fireworks and a band.
That depends on where you put those fireworks…
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Related: A polling station
[tank picture]What? You know the four boxes of citizen participation, don't you?
soap box, ballot box, jury box, cartridge box.
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For what its worth, its not a candidate, it's a blank line. Candidates are listed alphabetically, and this is Horsham (you can tell from the candidate postcodes, that must be in the constituency). The "Something New" party candidate is the last on the ballot.
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Incidentally, I don't think BlakeyRat would be voting the "Something New" guy
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"Hello. We are not allowed to have a surname, but we live above the shop with the red sign. You can call us Rotschild"
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That's actually the postcode at the end of the address; the photo doesn't have the candidates' names.
Why do you need to know their address when casting your vote?
At that point, it's kind of too late to write them a letter asking them where they stand on an issue.
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Still doesn't change the fact that royalty has no real say.
The strategy here is to just IGNORE the evidence to the contrary and repeat your wrong assertion until it takes hold.
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Why do you need to know their address when casting your vote?
No idea
@blakeyrat said:The strategy here is to just IGNORE the evidence to the contrary and repeat your wrong assertion until it takes hold.
With the exception of the ruling monarch's ceremonial roles, no member of the royal family has any involvement in the UK Parliament
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What's he running for? Front-end web developer? WTF!
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There's a comedian (Al Murray) running for the seat in Thanet South:
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With the exception of the ruling monarch's ceremonial roles, no member of the royal family has any involvement in the UK Parliament
Right; except the House of Lords does, and they're equally un-elected. And the royal family only gave up their voting rights in 1998. 1998. Approximately 3 centuries after it should have happened.
Point is: fuck the British
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There's a comedian (Al Murray) running for the seat in Thanet South:
Congratulations? We had a movie star as President.
But, see, here's the thing: his party description was full of his political accomplishments, it didn't mention which movies he starred in or that play he co-wrote or any experience in Ruby On Rails.
If I'm voting for a guy, why would I give a shit if he used C++?
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If I'm voting for a guy, why would I give a shit if he used C++?
If he's not going to be a minister of something, does it even matter? I don't think most MPs do anything aside from take up seats, do they? Do they have committee assignments? Does parliament actually vote on stuff?
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Apparently TRWTF is that website:
#Why are you collecting CVs?
Sending a CV is usually the very first step of a job application.We believe it should also be the first step when people apply to become an MP.
Voters can then look at the CVs, and assess skills and background before choosing who is best.
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except the House of Lords does, and they're equally un-elected
True, but they cannot prevent the (wholly elected) Commons from pushing through legislation
Aside:
No, that's not how getting into the House of Lords works…
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Voters can then look at the CVs, and assess skills and background before choosing who is best.
Because nothing qualifies you better for helping run a country than knowing your Ruby Gems from your Java Beans
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If I'm voting for a guy, why would I give a shit if he used C++?
Don't you hate C++? I would think that, for you, its use would be a disincentive
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True, but they cannot prevent the (wholly elected) Commons from pushing through legislation
They can't, or they generally don't?
Face it, you guys have a government that would make most banana republics chuckle.
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They can't, or they generally don't?
They can't; the most they can do is persuade the Commons to have a rethink
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No, that's not how getting into the House of Lords works…
I understand you're supposed to bribe your party leaders.
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I understand you're supposed to bribe your party leaders.
Ah yes, the whole 'Cash For Honours' thing…
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I cheated and deflated 2 posts to a new topic: Cheating cheaters cheat
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Greenwich Heritage Centre at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, hence the tank
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Not a tank, an SO-152 (Russian army designation) or 2S3 (Russian military-industrial designation) self-propelled 152-mm howitzer.
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Not a tank, an SO-152 (Russian army designation) or 2S3 (Russian military-industrial designation) self-propelled 152-mm howitzer.
Don't tell me, tell the BBC
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If I'm voting for a guy, why would I give a shit if he used C++?
I found that article in a couple of places, but I thought I'd link to The Register just to irritate you more. You're welcome!
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Someone explain to me why the same party is sometimes called "Tory" and other times called "Conservative" and I'm confused?
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Tory is short for Conservative
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....that makes sense. Three of those letters are in that word, in the wrong order. Totally how abbreviation works, right?
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How? Normally if it is short for something it is either an abbreviation or drop part of the word.
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This is the place that's got Wales in it, and the place that comes up with words like Worchestershire.
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Digging into the origins of the names, it seems it's more complicated than that:
TL;DR: The Tories basically turned into the Conservatives
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Nothing more conservative than still using the deprecated name nearly a century later.
Thanet South parliamentary constituency - Election 2019
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