The unofficial 2nd EU referundum taking place today 23rd May 2019

I may be mistaken here, but hadn’t you already voted Nonnie?

Anyway I really don’t imagine that anyone would be influenced by someone doing that at the gate, however, this shouldn’t be done by anyone, and I imagine I would be quite cross if it happened to me too.

But Nonnie, you say that you cannot remember what he said.
I was merely trying to help jog your memory by suggesting words or phrases he might have used.

I didn't say that I disbelieve you but, such a 'shocking' thing as trying to influence a vote would imprint the spoken words onto my consciousness.
Anyway...you're over it now and no harm done.
You'll be informed of the steps they've taken to sanction the perpetrator and the lady to whom you complained will no doubt have a record of the words he said to you.
Have a cuppa and calm down.

EllanVannin
Russia is a tad scary if you think of all the shenanigans real or imagined but that's precisely what I like.
I even saw the innocuous door in the very high wall, behind which were/ are labrinthine corridors within buildings where nerve gasses and other noxious substances were 'produced'.

Urmstongran; 'Just heard that Mr Macron’s europhile Renaissance faces being beaten into second place by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally!'...can I ask if you are pleased that Le Pen is doing so well? And, if so, why ?

Read about it yesterday. All good news. "Hallelujah" chorus at full volume.

I suppose Labaik it just illustrated how elections do throw up ‘the will of the people’ by democratic votes. It doesn’t always go the way polls or politicians expect.

Pesky buggers these voters!

I don't think that answers my question really. Are you personally pleased that the will of the people seems to be veering in a right wing/fascist direction?

...or does it worry you at all?

I’m not bothered which way the French people vote Labaik I just the establishment need to listen properly to their voter’s concerns. Not all Europeans like the way the EU is run and so they show their displeasure at the ballot box.

I am simply challenging the idea that only "populist" politicians can be considered "reprehensible".

Thing isn’t the European populist parties maybe Eurosceptic, and nationalistic, but they want to form alliances within the EU, not break it up.
Interesting reading the turnout figures for Thursdays elections- low 30% in the north east, 40% + in London, not much different from 2014. So whatever the result , it will only reflect the minority who bothered to vote.

maddy no we hadn't voted it was the man who handed us our ballot papers.

No need to patronise me Gabby I am calm I just think you are being very unpleasant with your insinuations and should be, what you claim, well educated etc. However your education seems to have failed in some aspects, respect for others is certainly one.

Pity we have to wait until Sunday night to see how everyone voted.?

No respect classes in Grammar schools.
Skin rhymes with thin.

I think I actually saw Putin lurking inside the polling booth! He told me to vote Brexit and was waving white powder.

Then I woke up and realised the man in the booth was holding out a pencil.

Honestly

Agree Lemongrove it’s nail biting.

I have no truck with Le Penn but I detest Macron. Vile man

mycat that was very childish. You were not there and there was no one in my booth and no one gave me a pencil. Didn't you vote or do you have a problem with your short term memory? Presumably you have difficulty in understanding fact from fiction as well as discriminating who is telling the truth and who is not. That should be based on what you have previously observed about the person of whom you are bitching. Or perhaps you are just playing to the gallery of your little gang? Whatever your behaviour about this has shown you in a very poor light.

Oh Nonnie lighten up please.

Come on these Russian conspiracy theories are as daft as trumps fake news.

And I postal vote. It’s far easier and you don’t get any hassle.

I was only teasing you are quite welcome to tease me back. sorry if I offended you

Voters in the North East came in for a shock yesterday after discovering the Brexit party’s main candidate lists his primary residence in France.
The list of registered parties showed that, although most parties were fielding candidates who resided in the region, the party campaigning to leave the EU was the only one to put forward a candidate living in Europe.
Brian Monteith is running to be North East MEP for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party...….I thought, yesterday that this was fake news, but it doesn't seem to be so. Can anyone make any sense of this [?]….

Flip me mycat!. the "waving white powder" was going it a bit! "

Trump's fake news is no more fake news than the power of Putin is fake news. A lot of brainwashing has been going on for many years. Wake up and see it happening before it is too late.

It’s Brexit Gonegirl it has finally sent me off my head!

Oops I was only joking I hope I haven’t really offended anyone because we are all mature women and hopefully can debate and have a joke. I know every poster is totally genuine in thinking their opinion is right and every opinion is valid.

I do think mind that Brexit is killing humour. I hope not. At our age we can always see the ridiculous. as in Parliament.

varian I agree but fake news is in the eye of the beholder isn’t it.

No, fake news is fake news, or as we used to say LIES.

Omg!!!! Yawn