You don't need your polling card to vote, but many people don't know that. Hence the surge in search traffic on polling day morning from people looking up information about polling cards: Search volumes shows how people were waking up and worrying about having a polling card this morning #referendum pic.twitter.com/s6MSpC1Np2 — Blue Rubicon Digital (@BlueRubiconDigi) June 23, 2016
The figures coming out from Lib Dem HQ about the extent of the grassroots referendum campaign are very impressive.
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So, it's all over bar the counting. First of all, thanks to every single person who pounded the streets and melted phone lines today getting out the Remain vote. You are all legends. I want to say a particular thanks to the fantastic West Lothian Stronger In team. If you are not going to a count, the best thing I can advise is having a nice mug of cocoa and going to bed. Seriously. Set your alarm for 4-ish. It's likely that nothing is going to even start to become clear before then and, as Stephen Bush wrote in his ...
Conservative seat. Cause: Resignation. LD candidate- Tamasin Barnbrook.
I was walking back from a council meeting in the Guildhall. As always I was taking snapshots to build up my picture library. The Rose and Crown reopens on 18 July at 11am. It will be run by Gary and Carlos. I am convinced it will be great pub. The hanging sign is up. This... Continue reading Look at this photograph of a great pub in Ludlow - Do you see what I saw? →
The Snicketts is a quiet pedestrian alley between Corve Street and Portcullis Lane. The converted industrial buildings form a pleasant group of properties and are much in keeping with the historic character of the area. That may change if a roof garden is allowed. An application has been submitted to remove the pitched roof of... Continue reading Roof garden bid for the Snicketts, Ludlow, is out of place →
Second paragraph of third story ("Postcard"): It being Wednesday the wickets in the Post Office were closed, but I had my key. I unlocked our box and took out the Jubilee paper, in Momma's name, the phone bill, and a postcard I very nearly missed. I looked at the picture on it first and it showed me palm trees, a hot blue sky, the front of a motel with a sign out front in the shape of a big husky blond creature, lit up with neon I suppose at night. She was saying Sleep at my place— that is, a ...
Tim has been doing so much during this campaign. He's had a lot of regional media stuff but hasn't been given many of the national gigs. He could have brought a whole new perspective to the new debates. Even with his cameo role on Tuesday night, he managed to get one of the lines of the evening – about Michael Gove's lack of trust in experts being why he was such a terrible Education Secretary. Anyway, last night he made a stonking speech at an eve of poll rally. Watch and share with anyone who needs to be convinced why ...
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If Remain win: Can we please now do Europe properly in this country, it's been embarrassing for decades! He should call for UKIP MEPs to step aside or sign a pledge to actually work for British interests instead of seliing us out by not doing their job. Call on the media and the BBC in particular to actually cover the EU parliament as a matter of course Call for some kind of EU transparency bill which means that the UK politicians and representatives should explain better what they are doing on our behalf in Europe on a regular basis. Yes ...
Yes, they use indelible pencils in polling booths. Yes, these are better than pens because they don't run out and are harder to chemically erase. Yes, it's very funny that there's a bunch of tinfoil-hat-wearing people who don't realise either of the above facts. Yes, it would be easily testable by taking in your own eraser and trying it for yourself in the polling booth, and yes, there are far easier ways to alter a ballot than erasing the mark placed there by the voter (putting another mark to spoil the ballot, for example). However... Doesn't it say something about ...
You might think you know how the Lib Dem Voice is voting in today's EU Referendum. Read on to see if you are right and check out our reasons for our votes. Caron Lindsay I voted remain primarily because I believe in people working together across any sort of boundary to make things better, because when you are trying to solve common problems you aren't fighting each other. I don't want us to look inward, talking about our own self interest all the time and forgetting the rest of humanity. In fact, it actually is good for us to look ...
I am definitely pro-European. I am a Liberal, and I will vote for Remain when I get home. Bloggers are supposed to predict, and I predict - and have always predicted - that Remain will win by a clear margin. I was buttressed in this idea by the unexpected cheering of Vince Cable by my neighbours when I interviewed him for the Steyning Festival. They responded to his invocation to vote for the interests of our grandchildren with startling acclamation. But I fear this blog post should finally torpedo hopes of preferment among my fellow Liberals, because I must admit ...
It has been affirming, in recent weeks, to meet so many people working together, making sacrifices small and large for the "Remain" campaign. We are united of course in our bemusement at what we perceive to be what The Washington Post called the "insanity" of the Brexit case; our case feels hard, in large part, because I think it is. But when the dust has settled and tempers cooled, however, I wonder if we might better understand their apparent eccentricity by recognising some of it within ourselves. Because, at the personal level, few of the sacrifices make obvious sense - ...
I can't vote in the EU referendum because of my age but I have been hugely affected by this whole campaign and desperately urge voters to choose to stay in the EU today. I constantly hear arguments from the out campaign who speak about the referendum in terms of how it would affect their children but I feel that only the in campaign truly assesses the ramifications of an out vote on future generations. As a member of this group of 'children' and 'the future generation' I am furious that I cannot directly be involved in the outcome of the ...
The EU has been the greatest institution in history for empowering countries. Rather than a sovereign state, or even entity, it only has what it has been given by the sovereign power of its member states. The collective recognition of sovereign states, pooling their power together in a supranational institution for the collective benefit of all them. What they have achieved is an institution that pools sovereignty for the collective benefit of those involved, the power of the EU, is the collective power of 28 member states. The power they 'give away' is power they now have across an entire ...
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And there's more spending promises – But what about the far bigger picture for Merseyside?
The Liverpool Echo has the story – see link above 50p child bus fares, a new Mersey Ferry etc. Mm, back to politicians pledges that I commented on not so long ago. These latest pledges are because we are getting a Metro Mayor foisted on Merseyside (Liverpool City Region) because our Tory Government says we should have one and Merseyside Labour rolled over and grabbed at the chance to have another politician living off the public purse. Remember Liverpool electors didn't get a say whether they had an elected Mayor and across Merseyside we have had no say either ...
The recent demise of Crays shop in Liverpool Road North has come as quite a shock as it was a part of Maghull life for as long as most folks can remember. [IMG: When Crays closed down 06 16 (2) r] The shop sold electrical goods and cycles and there can't be many Maghull and Lydiate residents who have not bought something from the shop and its friendly staff/owners. Over the years our family have bought cycles, washing machines and more light bulbs than you can count so when the shutters came down for the very last time a few ...
So today is the day Britain decides whether or not to leave the EU. This prospect fills me with dread. The EU is a flawed but very necessary institution. It facilitates trade, soothes political tensions and makes it easier for countries to co-operate. By contrast, the supposed benefits of exiting disappear when subjected to real scrutiny. That's a [...]
It is easy to look at the Leave campaign as an ardent Remainer and see nothing but bile. The Turkish ploy was deeply cynical, for instance. But one cannot look at the polls being neck in neck and dismiss almost 50% of the voting public (if we on the Remain side are lucky today, anyhow) as just being a bunch of racists. There are deeply felt feelings that have resulted in Leave either coming close to winning – or indeed, possibly taking us out of the European Union. Looking at the polls for today's referendum and seeing them 50-50 shouldn't ...
Brexit Could Trigger Erosion Of LGBT Rights, Top Lawyers Fear RT @PatrickStrud: Brexit Could Trigger Erosion Of LGBT Rights, Top Lawyers Fear via @PatrickStrud @buzzfeed Fact-Checking Brexit: The Conclusion — I'm Trying To Fact-Check Brexit — Medium Whichever way you are voting tomorrow, you need to read this: Reasons to vote Remain - Google Docs RT @bengoldacre: RIGHT. I wrote down why Brexit is a stupid choice, using words. Here they are. Untitled RT @businessinsider: Muslim who attended the same mosque as the Orlando shooter reported him to the FBI in 2014 Rightwing 'lone wolves' kill more than Islamists ...
Embed from Getty Images Here's a fun referendum day quiz. Use the comments field below to submit your responses. The first person with the correct answer will win a prize! The prize is that the Liberal Democrat Voice team will compose a special ode in tribute to you personally, which will appear in large font on our home page tomorrow morning! If you don't want your "name in lights" then we can arrange a snuggle with one of the team's lovable pets. To win the quiz, please give the correct questions to these answers: 1. Nuneaton 2. Manchester 3. Jenny ...
By banging on and on about their "long-term economic plan" the Tories managed to win last year's General Election, regardless of the fact that their "plan" was a) wrong-headed and b) effectively abandoned after the first two years. That goes to show that you can fool, if not all the people, most of us, if you keep churning out the same old mantra.and the media dutifully report it. Unfortunately the "Leave" side have had the most effective mantra in this referendum campaign -"Take control" -of our borders, and of our laws. We have, of course, already got control of our ...
No man is an island entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
It's a lovely morning here in Gateshead. I've just finished feeding my livestock. Emails have been checked and where appropriate I've sent replies. Breakfast has just been consumed and I'm about to head down to Whickham to deliver some leaflets for the Lib Dem Remain campaign. Don't forget to vote Remain by 10pm!
With the country's future hanging in the balance in today's referendum, one really does have to question whether now is the right time to table a motion in the Welsh Assembly seeking to re-classify it as a Parliament? The Western Mail reports that a motion has been tabled by Labour's Chief Whip and Business Manager for debate on 28th June which reads: "The National Assembly for Wales agrees that: (a) its name should be changed to the 'Welsh Parliament' at the earliest opportunity; and that (b) it should be known unofficially by that name until such a name change can ...
[IMG: polling-station] This post is not about whether you should vote Remain or Leave. It's just some answers to common questions about voting here in Cheadle and Gatley. When are the polling stations open? You can vote from 7am to 10pm on Thursday 23rd June 2016 at your local polling station. I have a postal vote but not returned it – is it too late? Vote using the ballot paper in your postal vote. Seal it all up as instructed and drop the sealed envelope into any Stockport polling station before 10pm. We vote by pencil in the polling booth ...
The Friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden are running a "Foraging - food for free" event at 2pm this coming Sunday at the Botanic Garden. Highlighting traditional uses for Scottish plants, the event costs only £2 for members of the Botanic Garden and others pay normal Garden charges.
Unlike many of our neighbours, Britain did not join the EU as a way of embracing a new, modern identity. For the Germans, French, Italians and the Benelux countries, European co-operation represented the victory of peace over war. For Spain, Greece and Portugal, membership signified the victory of democracy over fascism. For many newer members, it was about throwing off the tyranny of Soviet communism. Not us. Joining the European Community was a pounds and pence calculation of what was good for us, done with a shrug of the shoulders and an 'if you can't beat them, join them' acceptance ...
Fact-Checking Brexit Hugh has checked the extent of truth or lies in the Remain and Leave campaigns. Read it. (tags: ukpolitics eu )
Today is polling day in the European referendum, and in the small number of council by-elections where the local returning officer has decided not to follow the recommendation to hold them on a different day. Plus some lucky voters get to vote in two referendums today. Overton in Basingstoke and Deane also has a neighbourhood planning referendum: "Do you want Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council to use the neighbourhood plan for Overton to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?" Voting in person Polling stations are open between 7am and 10pm today. A reminder of one small change ...
Today, we have an incredibly important decision to make. A decision that will affect the rest of our lives. A decision we will only get to make once. A decision that, if we get it wrong, could put our country back years, both economically and socially. I'm going to be blunt. The Leave campaign don't deserve your vote today. They've run a vile campaign that has been built on lie after lie designed to con the British people. Have the Remain campaign been innocent of scaremongering? No, of course not. Politics is a battle. It's an election campaign, not a ...
In 7 hours the polls will open for the EU Referendum. To drum up support for the Remain campaign, I've emailed 2000 residents, encouraging them to vote to stay in the EU. You can read the email on this link.
