The Brexit Party

Some posters have an appallingly thin skin!
What all need to remember on any forum is that
A) we don’t know you
B) Any personal anecdote/comment is quite unverifiable.

Makes a nice change sticking up for ourselves just every now and again! That’s why it seems worthy of comment I suppose....

Jeez, the hounds are out in force today...

Nonnie has form - her feelings are well known to be hurt quite often. I have found (to my cost) that it is better to disengage.

'Appalling' and 'shock' are not words I'd use to describe the effect of a very brief utterance which, I hope for the well being of all concerned, will be rigorously investigated.

Did I call you a liar Nonnie? No.
Did I say that I didn't believe you? No.
I did write that I found it unbelievable that a polling clerk would say or do anything to influence a voter in front of colleagues and the general public.
Telling me that I should be ashamed (of something I clearly haven't written) is very wrong.
You are jumping to conclusions and it's a mountain made out of not a lot.
An indiscreet remark at worst. Not IMO, shock value to the extent that one can't even remember what was said. It could only have been brief.
Goodness me...?

The woman to whom.the complaint was made (who was 'overseeing' proceedings) did not, according to Nonnie, go inside after hearing her complaint (which means she was outside)
One would hope that the woman took the name and address of the complainant and perhaps other contact details so that a proper investigation could be launched. That would indeed be taking it seriously.
I would, had it been me, have expected the woman to return inside immediately and either have the person removed or had a stern word before he handed out any more voting slips.
Was the polling clerk's influence verbal or by his indication of a place on the voting slip?
Mine was handed to me already folded in half.

No G54 I cannot remember the exact words, you should understand that we were in shock at the time. Why do you want to know anyway? Are you calling me a liar? Do you not believe/refuse to believe me? You should be ashamed

'made it abundantly clear' does not explain exactly what the guy handing out the voting paper said or did to influence.
Obfuscation.

On reflection I will leave it there for everyone to see how nasty some Leavers are. Total disrespect for such an appalling thing to happen to another GN. I have no history of being other than truthful and I have never twisted anyone's post as has happened to me time and time again and never with an apology. I doubt I will get one now.

It is one thing having a different opinion to others but this is abuse.

Is it against GN rules to call me a liar?

Report the posts and you'll find out, Nonnie

Yes of course it is nonnie some people have history of those sort of posts though.

Another example of G54 unable to correctly read a post. He handed me the voting paper and made it abundantly clear he didn't approve of this vote and that we should vote for Brexit. That clearly makes him a Brexiter. I didn't say he was a canvasser, I made it clear what his job was.

Fire If you think that's funny you should be ashamed. How would you feel if you had been told to vote Green by the person handing you your paper?

lemon accusing me of being a liar is the bottom of the barrel from a Leaver. What have you sunk to? I saw on another thread that you didn't apologise after finding that EU voters had been denied their right. I see here you are still denying it.

All of the above demonstrate what we are dealing with here. People who twist everything and don't apologise when proved wrong.

Thanks to those who have stood up to defend me. I will add that there was a witness and the person visiting from the Council took it very seriously. Saying that it not permitted doesn't mean it didn't happen does it?

Is it against GN rules to call me a liar?

Tellers for established political parties are carefully briefed about what is and is not allowed outside a polling station. For instance you may wear a coloured rosette, but not one with the name of a candidate, and you must under no circumstances try to influence anyone.

The so-called "Brexit Party" is not an established political party. It is a private company with a tiny number of actual members, although they recruited a lot of supporters and took their money without allowing them to become members with a say in anything. I think it is quite likely that some of these supporters acted as tellers yesterday without understanding the rules.

Dinahmo
Thanks...but I already knew that.
I found it incredible that anyone handing out voting papers, sitting in an area with other people doing the same job, would be foolish enough to openly make a remark encouraging the recipient to vote in a particular way.

Yes, they are, paddyann..

EU citizens can vote where they are or in their country of origin. It's entirely their choice. They just have to make a declaration that they are not voting in any other country.

I assume all voting for Farage would vote for him to be prime minister

Yes paddy of course, it is the law.

are British nationals being allowed to vote on the continent? Can anyone confirm either way?

Neither snide nor nasty. Simply pointing out that your lack of morals ( and elsewhere your lack of information) is hardly a comfort to those of us who think differently but who might yet end up suffering the ghastly NF.

Comrade Corbyn certainly seemed to like Russia in the 1970s. Do you think he might not know that it is no longer a communist country?

Putin supports brexit because it is key to his aim of weakening the EU in order to destabilise the West. I think Farage serves his purpose far better than Corbyn.

mcem another nasty snide remark to be expected I suppose but hey ho who cares.

I thought Comrade Corbyn was Putin’s ‘useful idiot’ !

Who on earth votes for a corporate body that a) isn’t a political party and b) hasn’t a manifesto?

The electoral commission is receiving hundreds of calls.