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Theresa May about to Resign?

That's the crux of it. Morons. The country is full of them.

The whole voting system needs to be overhauled. If I can't drive a car without passing a test, why can I vote without having one?

You should go into your booth to be faced with a wee screen that has a dozen random questions, such as:

1. Who is the current Prime Minister of the UK?
2. Name four political parties
3. Who is your local MP?

Then if you pass the first test, you get to pick your party. Once you've picked them, another set of questions:

'Which of the below is a Conservative manifesto pledge?

- Drop taxes for those earning over £100,000 to 0.5%
- Cancel all aid to foreign countries
- Declare war on Argentina 'cos it's been a while'

Then if you get it right again, your vote is counted. If you **** it up, a big red light goes on above your booth with a loud beeping noise to let everyone know you're a ****.

I'm minded to replace the red light & beep with more robust alternatives.
 
I voted leave but I've been so worn down by the shenanigans of May and Robbins - and I suspect this was their play all along - that I think we should just rip Art.50 up and stay in. We've made our point, rocked the boat and we can have another referendum just to ensure democracy isn't usurped. Other countries with large Eurosceptic numbers can form a bloc with us and maybe actually then force the needed reforms and brakes on federalisation, creeping socialism and the other stuff that made us vote out in the first place.

I am effing tired of this faecal matter, basically.

You realise this is all your fault in the first place? :D
 
Because you pay taxes. If the government takes money out of your pocket then you're entitled to decide who the government is.

I do, because I'm employed. There is a significant number of people who are not and perhaps have never been, employed, and pay no taxes, but vote.

Vote, funnily enough, for the party that gives them the best handouts and freebies.

Funded by taxpayers.

Mmmm....

I just worked it out there - MrsB pays the same amount of tax as 28 people on the average Scottish wage.

Explain to me why she can't get 17 votes?! :D
 
That's the crux of it. Morons. The country is full of them.

The whole voting system needs to be overhauled. If I can't drive a car without passing a test, why can I vote without having one?

You should go into your booth to be faced with a wee screen that has a dozen random questions, such as:

1. Who is the current Prime Minister of the UK?
2. Name four political parties
3. Who is your local MP?

Then if you pass the first test, you get to pick your party. Once you've picked them, another set of questions:

'Which of the below is a Conservative manifesto pledge?

- Drop taxes for those earning over £100,000 to 0.5%
- Cancel all aid to foreign countries
- Declare war on Argentina 'cos it's been a while'

Then if you get it right again, your vote is counted. If you **** it up, a big red light goes on above your booth with a loud beeping noise to let everyone know you're a ****.

For the lolz have a tick box by every manifesto pledge and they have to tick each one they think has been broken.
 
Because you pay taxes. If the government takes money out of your pocket then you're entitled to decide who the government is.

What about those who never ever pay in to the system anywhere near what they take out? (Those incapable of doing so excepted).
 
I do, because I'm employed. There is a significant number of people who are not and perhaps have never been, employed, and pay no taxes, but vote.

Vote, funnily enough, for the party that gives them the best handouts and freebies.

Funded by taxpayers.

Mmmm....


Every time you walk into a shop and buy anything that's not VAT exempt you pay taxes.
 
Every time you walk into a shop and buy anything that's not VAT exempt you pay taxes.

Did you ever see the episode of Yes, Minister? The one where the coup in Burundi sees their new President fly over, and blackmail Jim Hacker into giving him a £50,000,000 loan?
He then proposes to use the loan to buy shipping from the Clyde.

It's the same idea for what you've just said.

It's not their money.

Take out the philosophical side to it, and it's the government being given back some of it's own money.

Every person on full benefits is a pure loss generator for the government, regardless what they do with that money. A strong statement, but from my own view, true (though I may be proven wrong?).

****, if I was feeling especially hardline about it, I'd say no votes for the unemployed. Let the people who fund a chunk of the economy have the say in who runs the country.
 
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Ah... you appeared to be throwing the question, "Hard Brexit?" at me as if I was advocating something terribly wrong.
I appear to be saying nothing more than if that is all the EU is prepared to offer then we should just get on with it. Britain has made her way through whatever has been thrown our way so far. Hate to think that it’s lost the ability to do that.
 
That's the crux of it. Morons. The country is full of them.

The whole voting system needs to be overhauled. If I can't drive a car without passing a test, why can I vote without having one?

You should go into your booth to be faced with a wee screen that has a dozen random questions, such as:

1. Who is the current Prime Minister of the UK?
2. Name four political parties
3. Who is your local MP?

Then if you pass the first test, you get to pick your party. Once you've picked them, another set of questions:

'Which of the below is a Conservative manifesto pledge?

- Drop taxes for those earning over £100,000 to 0.5%
- Cancel all aid to foreign countries
- Declare war on Argentina 'cos it's been a while'

Then if you get it right again, your vote is counted. If you **** it up, a big red light goes on above your booth with a loud beeping noise to let everyone know you're a ****.
The only very minor flaw I see in your intelligence tested voting plan is that nobody would actually bother to turn out to vote. Apart from that, (hardly worth mentioning I know), I think you are on to a winner.

Would your cunning plan be something like:
Turn out to vote... queue for four days to get into a booth, suffer two software crashes, fail the intelligence test by stabbing at the screen in incoherent rage and selecting a wrong answer, get sent to the back of the queue, repeat twice and then get fucked off at the high port for being too thick to vote.​
What's not to like eh?
 
The only very minor flaw I see in your intelligence tested voting plan is that nobody would actually bother to turn out to vote. Apart from that, (hardly worth mentioning I know), I think you are on to a winner.

Would your cunning plan be something like:
Turn out and vote... queue for four days to get into a booth, suffer two software crashes, fail the intelligence test by stabbing at the screen in incoherent rage and selecting a wrong answer, get sent to the back of the queue, repeat twice and then get fucked off at the high port for being too thick to vote.​
What's not to like eh?

Admit it - you work for the NHS IT implementation team...:razz:
 
That's the crux of it. Morons. The country is full of them.

The whole voting system needs to be overhauled. If I can't drive a car without passing a test, why can I vote without having one?
So quite literally a qualified majority vote, then.
 
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