Local elections

More to the point, why the fuck are there sooooooo many wheelie bins!? Was walking down the road today and it suddenly hit me. It's crazy when you think about it. Most houses here are split into 2 or 3 flats. That makes it 9 wheelie bins in the tiny front garden.

I don't understand. If they collect mixed recycling that has to be properly sorted then why not just have one bin for everything and another for biodegradables. If they have to sort it anyway then they might as well go through everything and recycle much more. Plus that's one less bin, one less collection, one less complication.

When's the local elections? We need change!

Oh...

Sometimes I wonder how well democracy works...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27545155

Everyone is a cunt... Lesson 1...

In a ward near me the Conservative got in with 30% of the vote. 70% of voters wanted a centre-left councillor (green, labour, lib-dem) but they ended up with a Tory.

Silly system.

In a ward near me the Conservative got in with 30% of the vote. 70% of voters wanted a centre-left councillor (green, labour, lib-dem) but they ended up with a Tory.

Silly system.

My ward is a safe Labour seat, so it was always going to end up with Labour in control.

For the non-Labour votes, 15% voted Tory, who then got 3 seats. 16% voted Green, and they only got 1 seat out of that.

Not a single UKIP seat in this ward, though, which is nice.

Sometimes I wonder how well democracy works...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27545155

benevolent dictatorship? or meritocracy

Well democracy is quite a broad term. It's a decent system. But democracy does not equal fair, like many seem to think. Now I'm not suggesting a dictatorship. I'm just pointing out that their are flaws in a democratic system just like any other system. A certain system can be democratic yet very unfair while another is equally as democratic but very fair.

Personally I think every system can be exploited. It's not the system that makes things go well, it's the people in power and equally the common man who brings them and keeps them in power.

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local elections today
seems to have been almost forgotten in amongst all the other crap thats going on at the minute

Wait. What local elections?

i've got a voting card here

Election of a councillor to London Borough of Newham
Polling Day : Thursday 14 July 2016

i can't be the only one surely

and newham can't be the only borough

where does one find out these type of things
is there a summary of all elections today in the uk somewhere

Is it the full council or just replacing one or two who've quit/died/been chucked out?

damn in all the confusion of the last few weeks i've forgotten who i vote for
is it .... in out green labour libdem bnp

is this a tactical vote, a protest vote, or a real numbers count vote

who is my hate figure now farage is gone, we are in a crazy political era

This is amazing:

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I like her stance on golf.

And dolphins

and guillotines

in other ukiply news:

Impossible to disagree that people are becoming far too old.

Compulsory horse riding until 70, then straight to the guillotine. But not on the bus, make them walk.

Are dolphins and whales not animals already?

Mrs DB wonders if all the kids are in school on horses.

Is this the correct thread or is there a new one?

I voted, fair few racist sounding parties on the Basildon ballot papers, "The For Britain Movement", "English Democrats" peppered amongst the usual UKIP and independents that were booted from the mainstream parties for various reasons.