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grr666
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 21 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Well, it gives whinging about them more legitimacy if you actively participated in the election process. Imagine if all the people who thought what you do actually turned out?

41% turnout for Bristol council elections in 2021.

I never said I wouldn't vote, I always have done so to date. I honestly think a count of the number of people like
myself who don't want all this over reaching into our daily lives by those who pretend they are acting in our best
interests and not their own has to happen. As such the ballot box is the only way to stand up and be counted. But
in any case said vote really is only a protest vote here and not going to accomplish anything that saves me any money
or changes the governance to one with a different agenda. Bristol is what Bristol is. The shitty and divisive chargeable
eco zone might push a few votes in the right direction but not enough to undo any of their bollox or unseat any of the woke
megalomaniacs that seem to make the decisions here. Frankly there isn't a party far enough right for my tastes,
Conservative, you'll get more of the same as the two main parties are seperate cheeks of the same WEF arse and Reform
will be shouted down for being Nazis before they ever gain any momentum. And if by some miracle they did get
in the blue haired, statue destroying lunatics we have in such great numbers would ensure this place was in flames
before the week was out.
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Ribenapigeon
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PostPosted: 14:21 - 21 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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stinkwheel wrote:


So you turning out to vote in the local council elections?

The idea of Bristol ever being anything other than Labour run is laughable. I'd sprout a second penis before
Reform or the Conservatives had a chance here so honestly, what's the point?


Maybe do some grovelling before our new King?
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Maybe do some grovelling before our new King?

That prick can't even keep his son and stepson in order, he's just another billionaire environmentalist anyway.
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That prick can't even keep his son and stepson in order, he's just another billionaire environmentalist anyway.


How shamefuly unpatriotic of you.
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Fucking council tax that's what. It's absolute bastard daylight robbery, ultimately imprisonable if you don't comply.
My bins are collected once a fortnight, that's pretty much all I get out of the deal. I've done some sums and it's costing
me about £70 a time for them to remove a single bag of rubbish each fortnight. In what universe is that okay? Turn
the street lights off, I don't care all my vehicles have lights. I don't have kids so why am I paying for schools? If I called
the Police for anything they likely wouldn't attend and my house insurance covers the cost of the bastard burning
down. I was never asked if my money should be spent on 'clean air™' cameras because if I had been I'd have said "Fuck
no"!! They've made my van worth fuck all at the stroke of a pen and I get billed for the privilege? And of course this year
it's gone up considerably because I don't cunting know why except to fund more ways of bleeding the £££s out of my wallet.
Its a fucking piss take. The chief housing officer on BCC is on 280k a year. So I can see where some of it is going.


1. You must be in a Tory neighbourhood since the council only collects mine once every THREE weeks you fucking toff cunt Laughing ,

2. Your Chief Housing Officer is complaining that his remuneration is below what he would get in the private sector as you type Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:35 - 21 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
grr666 wrote:
stinkwheel wrote:

Well, it gives whinging about them more legitimacy if you actively participated in the election process. Imagine if all the people who thought what you do actually turned out?

41% turnout for Bristol council elections in 2021.

I never said I wouldn't vote, I always have done so to date. I honestly think a count of the number of people like
myself who don't want all this over reaching into our daily lives by those who pretend they are acting in our best
interests and not their own has to happen. As such the ballot box is the only way to stand up and be counted. But
in any case said vote really is only a protest vote here and not going to accomplish anything that saves me any money
or changes the governance to one with a different agenda. Bristol is what Bristol is. The shitty and divisive chargeable
eco zone might push a few votes in the right direction but not enough to undo any of their bollox or unseat any of the woke
megalomaniacs that seem to make the decisions here. Frankly there isn't a party far enough right for my tastes,
Conservative, you'll get more of the same as the two main parties are seperate cheeks of the same WEF arse and Reform
will be shouted down for being Nazis before they ever gain any momentum. And if by some miracle they did get
in the blue haired, statue destroying lunatics we have in such great numbers would ensure this place was in flames
before the week was out.


We have a bunch of delinquents 'voted' into Holyrood (Hollywood) on the back of a 30yr old Mel Gibson movie (Drunk anti-Semitic, 1/2 breed Murican).

Some of the fallout from 'governance' by these lunatics, is now making Scottish culture an international laughing stock.

Serial rapists being sent to women's prisons.

Police Scotland announcing that they will record rape committed by a male (with a pee pee) as having been committed by a woman if the rapist identifies as a woman.

I voted Tory in the last election in a vain attempt to thwart a landslide by the Special Needs Party in my local area.
That was a waste of an X.
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PostPosted: 19:40 - 21 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
voting is just a con to make you think that you have a choice.
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PostPosted: 19:45 - 21 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Here's your lifetime allowance of democracy.


What about coucil elections? Although they are all a waste of space and just wear different colour bow ties.

I should be a local counciller. I could kiss ̶y̶u̶m̶m̶y̶ ̶m̶u̶m̶m̶y̶s̶ babies and do fuck all else except claim expenses. I think I'll do it. Fuck this living on a pension. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 21:32 - 21 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:

What about coucil elections? Although they are all a waste of space and just wear different colour bow ties.

I should be a local counciller. I could kiss ̶y̶u̶m̶m̶y̶ ̶m̶u̶m̶m̶y̶s̶ babies and do fuck all else except claim expenses. I think I'll do it. Fuck this living on a pension. Thumbs Up


the level of corruption in local councils is just as bad as the higher ups.
theyre all crooked as owt.
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I must live in an ultra-posh area, I get bin collections weekly* Smile

I feel for people being frustrated by the system but not voting is not the solution. Even a spoiled ballot goes on the statistics.

I'm currently having this argument with both my mother and one of my daughters who've both resolved not to vote so it cuts across generations - a damning indictment of how low society has sunk Sad I state "a low turnout sends the message to politicians that the electorate don't care what they get up to" which neither of them has a rebuttal for but I'm still not convincing them. Maybe I should persuade them to "lend" me their postal votes, it's the tactic that works for the Residents Association running my council.

*Recycling one week then household rubbish the next. Green waste (garden clippings) and food waste is weekly though.
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How about a national strike, regardless of anyones political predilections. Just the lot of us give two fingers up to the boggled eyed collection of those who mill around in the political space. Sure everything will break down but it would break them, we would see who's genuinely in it for society and the nation and who will just beetle off.
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Ribenapigeon wrote:
How about a national strike, regardless of anyones political predilections. Just the lot of us give two fingers up to the boggled eyed collection of those who mill around in the political space. Sure everything will break down but it would break them, we would see who's genuinely in it for society and the nation and who will just beetle off.


General Strike 1926. Failed

Battle of George Square Glasgow 1919 Failed.

Just after those men and women had risked their lives for their freedom and in the most cruel and brutal conflict in modern history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square

They sent troops and tanks into Glasgow to fight the strikers.

I would think we need to do as Murica did years ago.
Have it written into our constipation a right to bare arms.
Only then could we take the bastirts on.
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General Strike 1926. Failed

Battle of George Square Glasgow 1919 Failed.

Just after those men and women had risked their lives for their freedom and in the most cruel and brutal conflict in modern history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square

They sent troops and tanks into Glasgow to fight the strikers.

I would think we need to do as Murica did years ago.
Have it written into our constipation a right to bare arms.
Only then could we take the bastirts on.


They have gunships etc.

Mass civil disobedience is the ticket.
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stinkwheel wrote:
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insurance company have given me a Prius as a temporary replacement.


Does it give you a feeling of smug superiority over other road users?

Have you considered buying a turtle-neck sweater yet?


Driving Gloves, Sheepskin Jaikit and Trilby.
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People who are always trying to swap shifts with you.
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Hopefully technological innovation can outpace the avarice of politicians.
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Hopefully technological innovation can outpace the avarice of politicians.


And provide something akin to a Spell Checker, for when one desires to post some sort of comment online.
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Apparently if you want to visit the nearest dump recycling centre now you have to show some ID to prove you live within the county council borders. If not you’ll have to travel further. Bureaucratic nonsense.
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PostPosted: 19:25 - 22 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
BOLLOCKS. That isn't true for the vast majority in the UK.
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Not yet, but councils are responding to the policy of their neighbours so it’s spreading.
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PostPosted: 19:42 - 22 Apr 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
once again, citation please.
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I have to do that in Croydon. First time I visited I showed them my driving license, they gave me a little sticker that goes in the windscreen. Every subsequent visit they see the sticker and wave me through.

However, if that's the kind of thing that really grinds your gears, you must have a fucking easy life.
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Whaddya mean, “once again”?

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/news-archive/recycling-centres-access-2023

https://www.bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/herts-county-council-ready-to-talk-with-essex-about-recyclin-9305828/

https://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/services/household-waste-and-recycling/recycling-centres/proof-of-residency-rule-at-hwrc-sites

https://westberks.gov.uk/article/37215/Book-an-Appointment-to-Visit-a-Recycling-Centre

West Berkshire will let ‘outsiders’ visit their recycling centres for £7.

It’s the unnecessary bureaucracy that grinds my gears, and forcing people to travel further than they need to.
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