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Proud citizen of the world | Retired to 🇫🇷 | #FBPE | Pro-NHS | #TacticalVoting until we get #PR | Despise Tory policies | #GTTO | #CitizensRights | #FreedomOfMovement | #ClimateChange | Multiculturalism works | My close family is from three continents.

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Please vote tomorrow. The polls are just graphics. Voting is the only way to get the result.

Plus, if the thought of voting for Farage's UKIP was enough to spook the Tories into enacting the worst foreign policy in modern history, then voting for smaller parties matters just as much.

#politics

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The first step is to put a formal complaint into the electoral services dept of your council.

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Labour on course for biggest majority since 1832.

BUT only if you get out and vote.

There is no room for complacency.

#GTTO

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Thanks Persiflage. My problem is that my proxy lives +200miles from my constituency. I’ve been discussing options with the leader of the Libdems in France. They don’t appear to anticipate ballot papers not arriving at the proxy in time to post back.

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What photo ID will you need to vote in the general election?

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#LiarSunak lying to the bitter end:

"I am proud this campaign has shone a spotlight on Labour's plans to raise people's taxes," he added.

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I have always thought it would take a generation to rejoin. The Tories did immense damage to international relations.

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The Sun backs Labour for first time since 2005. The day before polls open, The Sun newspaper has finally announced its endorsement - and said it is backing the Labour Party at this election.

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I totally agree. The Tory legacy is literally Shit and Corruption. They need to be consigned to the dustbin of political history.

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I am sick to the back teeth of this cavalcade of lying Tories and their disgusting lying crap. I want them gone, all of them, root and branch. Ignore all the nonsense you have been fed. JUST GET OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW !! For all our sakes, and for the generations still to come.

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Sam Coates: One member of government 'just wants to lose' their seat.

We have a plan for that.

#GTTO

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Expect to shortly see Ed Davey fired from a canon at the moon 😀

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25% were expected to vote by post. The CEO of the Electoral Commission has said he expects 10 million.

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Let’s hope that spurs a few more Libdems votes in key marginals to get them a couple more seats.

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The number requested will be known. The late ones can be easily counted, but the reason for the lateness may be hard to prove. As for the missing ones, who knows?

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So, how many lost or delayed postal votes constitute electoral dysfunction? 100,000? 250,000? 500,000? 1,000,000?

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Especially as he is expecting to have to handle 10million.

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Returning home after a few days away to these in the garden, was a pleasant surprise.

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Electoral Commission CEO said “the system is under quite a lot of pressure", predicting the number of postal votes to reach as high as 10 million.

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According to Vijay Rangarajan, CEO of Electoral Commission, "People can put them in the mail as late as tomorrow, the day before polling day," he said, and still be confident they'll be counted. Such confidence!

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Mine is a proxy postal vote, i.e. my proxy should have received a postal ballot for me. All rather academic as it hasn’t arrived.

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Me too! All set up and renewed in February! Still no ballot paper.

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That’s great news. My council advised me my proxy would receive the ballot paper last week, so something is seriously wrong if Royal Mail say they have no backlog.

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Royal Mail has blamed the government for voters not receiving their postal ballots ahead of Thursday's election - and said there is "no backlog" in its system.

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Royal Mail has blamed the government for voters not receiving their postal ballots ahead of Thursday's election - and said there is "no backlog" in its system.

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💩 The majority of seats the Liberal Democrats are expected to win are among the constituencies worst affected by the sewage spill crisis

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A ‘supermajority’ will create a broad talent pool to draw competent ministers from.

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Morning, Bluesky. Two days and a wake-up until the start of much-needed change in the UK. As there’s some confusion, here’s a tactical voting guide from The Progressive Alliance. Everywhere not mentioned, it’s safe to vote Labour.

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BrianinFrance's avatar BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social
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Well, they could count the number of disenfranchised voters who raise the issue, and they can count the number of postal proxy votes arriving too late.

No doubt there will be a lot of hand-wringing and shoulder shrugging.

#ElectoralCommission

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Reform candidates are for the hard of thinking.

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Would have loved to have voted in my old constituency, but my proxy has still not received my ballot paper. 😡

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The Tories are consistently…

Too slow to offer assistance
Too quick to serve themselves
Too stupid to do the right thing
Too full of themselves
Too arrogant to think of others
Too corrupt for words
Too long in office

#GTTO

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Build a wall around the Tories, with no door.

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Today, (too late of course) the government is ‘urgently’ investigating the delay in despatching postal votes.

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No one was expecting it, other than Sunak and all those that placed a bet on 4 July.

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I have been told by my Council's Electoral Services dept, "there is nothing we can do" 😠

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US Supreme Court immunity ruling means presidents can 'ignore the law'.

The court's decision passed with the help of the 3 judges Trump appointed when he was president.

That's another good reason to instal a competent govt in the UK to combat a world going mad.

#GTTO

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BrianinFrance's avatar BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social
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That’s sounds like what currently happens?

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If he becomes LOTO, Ed Davey should be permitted to instal a water slide in the Commons. PMQs would be peak viewing.

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*pout? Well, they will be doing plenty of that on Thursday night.

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It's certainly not the most stupid remark Sunak has made, among hundreds of stupid remarks, but it is astonishing that Downing Street would pout out such a statement.

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