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Ian Dunt
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Disenfranchisement by cock-up: How EU citizens were stopped from voting in the European elections politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/05/…
Today is the last day to register for European elections. For Brits, it;s fine, just get on here now and sort it. Will take five mins. gov.uk/register-to-vo…
For EU citizens, it's a fucking nightmare, of printing off documents, filling them out and posting them. The kind of thing which relentlessly discourages voting.
This is a dreadful and embarrassing situation, born of unplanned elections and institutional inertia. But you can get past it, even now.
Last-gasp desperate tactics for registering to vote as an EU citizens in the piece. There's ten hours to do so.
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Ian Dunt
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For people asking: The reason May can bring her deal again despite Bercow's rule is that this time she is bringing forward the legislation, which hasn't been done before.
Previous attempts were just motions - straight yes-or-no to a basic question. This will be a bill enacting the deal.
Downside of course is that you have to publish the bill, which is when all the Brexiters will lose their shit.
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Fourth time lucky: May's pitiful gambit politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/05/…
This whole effort is typical of her: Create severe future problems in order to deal with trivial existing ones. That's her standard approach.
It doesn't work. It has absolutely ruined her and put the country in a terrible mess. But she has no other way of operating. It's all she knows.
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Game of Thrones. Fucking buggering hell. That was utterly heartbreaking. And completely perfect.
I have now been quickly and reliably informed that everyone hates it. Can't understand that. Craziness. That was exquisitely judged tragedy.
Thrones is at its best when it takes away what you want and when it says something radical about the world. That's what it did here. The behaviour of characters (no spoilers) we saw tonight was seeded well in advance.
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