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    Ignoring the poster and of course ALL the comments underneath:



    Unionism would never stoop so low surely?

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    Stop, man: take a breath of life and show a little respect

    It's a predictable overblown response to a predictable cliched stunt.

    Either legislation (from WM or Stormont) or 'royal prerogative' (ie a Windsor reads out a speech written by a Tory minister) are needed to rename the city. Or we could redraw the border around it, I suppose.

    I'd reclassify it as a biggish town personally.
    You have to admit regardless of the reasoning behind the call for the vote and change, the Unionust reaction is rather brilliant. Always measured and calculated. How in Gods name did they ever have the wherewithal to be "the People"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BonnieShels View Post
    You have to admit regardless of the reasoning behind the call for the vote and change, the Unionist reaction is rather brilliant. Always measured and calculated. How in Gods name did they ever have the wherewithal to be "the People"?
    1 Two sides of a predictable coin, as I said. Of course both camps' strategy is measured and calculated, with the intent of using a futile dispute to distract attention from more pressing issues.

    2 They keep winning elections?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gather round View Post
    1 Two sides of a predictable coin, as I said. Of course both camps' strategy is measured and calculated, with the intent of using a futile dispute to distract attention from more pressing issues.

    2 They keep winning elections?
    Yes. Winning.

    One man, one vote and all that.
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    Mopery alert Bonita.

    OMOV has applied in all NI elections for decades.

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    Apart from the Europeans, of course. And the assembly. Other than that, you're one hundred and ten percent correct (adjusting the percentages for the obligatory historical gerrymander!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gather round View Post
    Stop, man: take a breath of life and show a little respect

    It's a predictable overblown response to a predictable cliched stunt.

    Either legislation (from WM or Stormont) or 'royal prerogative' (ie a Windsor reads out a speech written by a Tory minister) are needed to rename the city. Or we could redraw the border around it, I suppose.

    I'd reclassify it as a biggish town personally.
    Quote Originally Posted by Gather round View Post
    1 Two sides of a predictable coin, as I said. Of course both camps' strategy is measured and calculated, with the intent of using a futile dispute to distract attention from more pressing issues.

    2 They keep winning elections?
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    Mopery alert Bonita.

    OMOV has applied in all NI elections for decades.
    Based on gerrymandering and your patronising view.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eminence Grise View Post
    Apart from the Europeans, of course. And the assembly. Other than that, you're one hundred and ten percent correct (adjusting the percentages for the obligatory historical gerrymander!)
    is that a gag, or do you nor understand how single transferrable vote systems work?

    If the latter, the clue's in the name.

    Standard practice for NI elections ≠ Gerrymandering

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    You said OMOV (one man one vote) applied in all NI elections - it doesn't. So, you were factually wrong.

    And, yes, it was all couched in a gag - nothing gets past your eagle eyes!
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    Just think of me as your sub-editor.

    NI elections featured plural voting (ie some people mainly business premise owners or university graduates had two or more) until the start of the Troubles in 1969. So 21 years after the practice was abandoned elsewhere in Britain.

    So basically what everyone locally understands OMOV to mean.

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    I'd hate you to think that 'sub' was the first prefix anybody here would usually apply to you.

    What part of the Assembly and European parliament elections using PR-STV are you mixing up with plurality/one man, one vote/first past the post? BTW, plural voting isn't plurality.
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    File under Ignore, EG.

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    Ah come on GR, surely as a loyal man who had the wherewithal to leave his island you can see just how idiotic it all is from the PUL leaders [sic].
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