. I can’t get used to these newfangled polls where it is positively encouraged to vote every day. You can vote for this blog as Best UK blog in the 2005 Weblog Awards. You can even vote for other blogs if you feel so inclined, although if you do one of¹ our fleet of dreaded Biased BBC detector vans will drive past your house in a menacing manner. It’s a Ford Transit. Driver’s name is Alf.²
¹”One of” as in “all of”.
² He’s actually delivering free newspapers to a warehouse in Worthing but kindly agreed to help out by keeping an eye out for anyone who might have voted the wrong way. Thanks, Alf.
Natalie. Congratulations to BBBC for making the finals. I hope you and Andrew and the rest of the moderators feel that your efforts are worthwhile and are beginning to bear fruit. BBBC is an important stop for people seeking forensic analysis of the corporation’s left-wing bias. Keep it up.
I also can’t get used to this idea of voting every 24 hours in the same category and, presumably, for the same blog.
I thought that’s what they do in elections in the third world.
Anyway, it’s good to see that currently more than 260 people have voted for this site….er, hang on, I’m forgetting that now we have to differentiate between 260 people and 260 votes.
I never thought I’d see THIS blog use a notorious Irish Republican slogan to promote itself, but, hey, the world’s a strange place!
Gosh, was it? – a Republican slogan, I mean. I associated it with the Machine politics of Mayor Daley in Chicago. (Hope I’ve got that right.)
Natlie,
Daley’s Machine was the entity that established full suffrage rights for the vertically challenged community (as in, “the dead don’t vote except in Cook County, Illinois”.)
It was in Boston where “Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote for Mayor Curley” was a ballad jubilantly sung by the Irish-American community.
Susa, Natalie – yes, directly translated over the ocean by the Shinners (supporters of Sinn Fein).
Susan, please excuse the missing “n”.
venichka:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/50221-05.htm
Lord Smith of Clifton speaking:-
“My first and main point is that the Bill appears to dilute, if not overturn, the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act, passed as recently as 2002. That Act, as the noble Baroness said, specifically aimed to reduce the amount of personation that has bedevilled political life in Northern Ireland since its inception. “Vote early, vote often” was a practice originally introduced by the Unionists. Later it was adopted and refined by the republicans.”
Personation along with gerrymandering,business voting, and university voting was used in NI to help Unionist candidates in marginal constituencies.
Dizzzzzy
I stand corrected. I have no doubt whatsoever (nor you too , as you make clear) which side benefitted most from the gerrymandering: and it wasn’t the republicans