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Donald John Trump, Sr., aka Donald Trump, is a celebrity business man and media personality. He is the 2016 Republican candidate for President of the United States.
This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from Creative Commons licensed images from Michael Vadon's flickr photostream.
DUP Leader Peter Robinson & Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds launching the 2010 Party Election Broadcast on a mobile media van which will be appearing in several locations across Northern Ireland
Despite entering the Official Singles Chart at No4 - & riding high in the download charts - the BBC decide to censor reggae band Captain Ska's hit single "Liar Liar". The anti-austerity song is "too political" for the State broadcaster, though this doesn't stop them showing the headlines from the right wing media at every possible opportunity, on radio, TV and the internet. So the band, in protest and for the fun of it, performed the song right outside the BBC's front door, with the People's Assembly poster warning of the threat of re-electing Theresa May in the background.
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The Prime Minister leaving the front door to announce the General Election on 6 May. 6 April 2010, Crown copyright.
No need to comment - this is just a daruma* rant :-)
When JFK said that 'the margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear' he could easily have been talking about today's General Election in the UK.
I have worked in and around politics for over 20 years and this is the first time since 1992 that there's really been a contest. What's more, the state of the economy means it's probably the most important for over 30 years.
Who we support at election time is a personal matter but I'm a firm believer that each of us has a civic duty to cast a vote. Vote positively for a candidate or write None of you; you're all rubbish! on the ballot paper - it doesn't matter. But what counts is that we participate.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote ~ George Jean Nathan
22:00 UPDATE: Exit poll for BBC/ITN/Sky predicts hung parliament, Conservatives largest party. Con 307 Lab 255 Lib Dem 59 Others 29.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and supporters rally outside Parliament before marching to Conservative Party headquarters, to raise the profile of disability rights and to challenge MPs to abandon policies harming disabled people since the Tory party were elected in 2010. A brief sit-down protest blocked traffic on a busy Victoria Street while leaflets were handed to members of the public.
Read more about the event, and the devastating impact of Tory "austerity" cuts on disabled people here
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One of the great joys of voting under our Proportional Representation system is that you get to rank the politicians from 1 to 10, 11, or 100 in order of your preference. Here, you have a choice of 5 and some fairly interesting names at that. No doubt the other parties have similar lists?
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Collection: NLI Ephemera Collection
Date: 1933
NLI Ref.: D144
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The UK has a General Election on 8th June 2017 called by a woman Theresa May seeking a mandate as Prime minster 104 years to the day after a suffragette Emily Davison gave her life for the right of women to vote by falling under the Kings Horse at the Epson Derby 1913.
The do have something in common, they were both born in October
Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Hackney South & Shoreditch
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Boris Johnson has been Britain's Prime Minister despite a lifetime of lies, outrage and scandal. Sometimes the results are reasonably harmless - or even funny, but at other times, his behaviour has poisoned the well of democracy, raised questions over his honesty, and even endangered a British citizen in Iran. The sheer weight shows a pattern of behaviour that shames our nation.
1. When he was sacked by The Times for making up a quote.
2. When he was sacked for lying about an affair.
3. When he discussed having a journalist beaten up.
4. When he endangered a British mum jailed in Iran.
5. When he called black people 'piccannies'.
6. When he mocked Muslim women as 'letterboxes'.
7. When he used racist terms to describe Barack Obama.
8. When he propagated the £350m-a-week Brexit lie.
9. When he said Turkey was joining the EU - then lied about it.
10. When he repeatedly ignored conflict-of-interest rules.
11. When he blew millions on his Garden Bridge ‘vanity project’.
12. When he wasted £300,000 on illegal water cannon.
13. When his expensive buses became a ‘saunas on wheels’.
14. When he had a blazing row with his partner in her flat.
15. When we didn’t know how many children he has.
16. When he called gay men 'tank-topped bum boys'.
17. When he made a glib remark about ‘dead bodies' in Libya.
18. When he recited a colonial-era poem in Myanmar.
19. When he boasted about whisky in a Sikh temple.
20. When he wrote a dirty limerick about Turkey’s President and a goat.
21. When he insulted the entire city of Liverpool.
22. When he insulted the entire country of Papua New Guinea.
23. When he said Africa needs its old Colonial powers to come back.
24. When he claimed money probing child abuse was 'spaffed up a wall'.
25. When he tried to dodge questions over using cocaine.
26. When he ‘made up’ a story about small Italian penises.
27. When he enraged Italy with a threat about Prosecco.
28. When he called the French ‘turds’ who ‘shafted Britain’.
29. When he compared the EU to Adolf Hitler.
30. When he proclaimed ‘f*** business’.
31. When he allegedly said ‘f*** the families’ of the 7/7 bombings.
32. When he derailed a visit to the Middle East.
33. When he branded Hillary Clinton a ‘sadistic mental health nurse’.
34. When he cosied up to a President he called ‘unfit to rule’.
35. When he refused to back our Ambassador to the US.
36. When he took a £20,000 flight to avoid scrutiny on Heathrow Airport.
37. When he branded his £250k-a-year pocket money ‘chicken feed’.
38. When he was accused of a major conflict of interest.
39. When he purged Churchill’s grandson from the Tories to shore up his base.
40. When he kept trying to use public money to attack Labour in the election.
41. When he unlawfully shut down Parliament (after promising he wouldn’t).
Donald John Trump, Sr., aka Donald Trump, is a celebrity business man and media personality. He is the 2016 Republican candidate for President of the United States.
This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from Creative Commons licensed images from Michael Vadon's flickr photostream.
A political message. "Fuck The Tories", a sticker states, ahead of the general election. Soho Square, London, UK. April 07, 2015. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
John Sidney McCain III, aka John McCain, is a Republican United States Senator from Arizona. He is running for re-election in 2016.
This caricature of John McCain was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.
John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister.
What follows May apart from June ?
Stay tuned folks all bets are off.
It's General Election night. I walked past the Palace of Westminster about half past nine and the broadcasters were testing the projection onto parliament. I waited around until 10 'o'clock to see the exit poll results.
Now the wait begins..........
Press Eye Belfast Northern Ireland - 12th February 2015 - Picture by Kelvin Boyes /
DUP Tourism Policy Launch
Alderman Gavin Robinson, DUP Leader Peter Robinson MLA, Arlene Foster MLA and Nigel Dodds MP pictured at the George Best Belfast City Airport at the launch of the latest in a series of policy documents where they focused on tourism policy.
PEKAN - APRIL 20: Candidate nomination day for Malaysia 13th General Election, Pekan Parliament Post, Pahang, Malaysia on April 20,2013.
Event : Malaysia General Election 13 - Candidate Nomination Day
Location : Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia
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Darryl LeMon Glenn, aka Darryl Glenn, is the Republican candidate for US Senate seat in Colorado in 2016.
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Now with added forked-tongue; well, he is a politician! This photo can now be seen on www.theelectionproject.co.uk.
Does David Cameron have any policies or is he just saying what he thinks people want to hear, tailoring his words for whatever audience he happens to be speaking to. When he did actually come up with a policy for cutting tax by cutting waste it soon became clear that it hadn't been costed out properly.
I'd like to thank Sebastian Niedlich (Grabthar) for putting a creative commons on his chameleon photo www.flickr.com/photos/42311564@N00/3338533565/ and hope he appreciates what I've done with it. The same goes for Manwiddicombe who is responsible for David Cameron's face! I originally found it on a left wing blog but I've since discovered that it was sourced from his Flickr, once again on a creative commons. You can see the original plus a manipulation (I think I've used his manipulated version) at www.flickr.com/photos/captainff/3911997788/
Jew's Ear Fungus - Auricularia auricula-judae: I described the association of this fungus with Judas Iscariot previously, so I'm linking here. Unfortunately, I must stress that it's NOT racist, as there are, equally unfortunately, so many PC Nazis running around loose these days. And for their benefit I must also say I said "Unfortunately, I must say", NOT "Unfortunately, it's not racist".
For the benefit of morons.
We are having a General Election, and on Friday we cast our votes. Today I had the "privilege" of meeting one of the local candidates. Everything was going well, he seemed fine, but then when he heard about my website (tourism is a major issue now, having been dismissed for a decade) he quickly said: "have you seen the website we set-up...it's great isn't it?" referring to the official Visit Wicklow website, run by the local council, of which he is a member. I replied: "as a website it's fine, but it's more geared towards businesses than attracting tourists to heritage..."
"No, it's not. There's lots of stuff on there. It's a great website. Anyway, I hope you'll consider voting for me: none of the other candidates know as much about business as I do." He then shook my hand with just the right amount of pressure to feign earnestness, while carefully making just the right amount of eye contact.
He wasn't a bad guy, but I won't be voting for him. He didn't listen to what I had to say, he just steamrolled over it and told me how I should think...and this man thinks he has the qualifications to ensure my interests are represented in parliament?
The truth is I always like to ask a question like that. I like to see the reaction: is this person seeking to represent me or him/herself in parliament?
That's the state of politics today: they study carefully how to shake hands, make eye-contact...and then force you to listen to them, rather than them listen to what you have to say.
There's a whole generation of stagnant, self-interested, useless political candidates out there, and they just don't get it! They simply do not understand what democracy is, or how it should work...
But not this day (8th June) alas. National Express Coventry Dennis Trident/Alexander ALX400 4214 heads along Princethorpe Way passing Quorn Way through a rain shower. Sowe Valley Primary School (polling station) is over to the left nearer me, and the Tiger Moth pub is directly to the right.
A generation ago only people able to document a reason to vote absentee would be allowed to do so (health, travel, or other indisposition). A couple years ago Michigan changed to a presumptive absentee system: anybody 55 or older could request one, rather than face the voting lines at precinct polling places. Now, due to Covid-19 hazards, plus or minus 50% of votes will be cast by mail-in: filled in at the county clerk's office, returned in designated dropboxes, or by relying on the paid postage and USPS delivery services.
A few people may change their mind and surrender their blank voting materials on voting day at their own polling place. That way they can legally vote the ordinary way. Even if their mail-in vote was received, they can use the local precinct to arrange the mail-in cancellation and legally vote in person.
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Nicola Sturgeon and candidates from Glasgow launch the SNP's General Election 2015 campaign at Glasgow Fort shopping centre. March 30th 2015
Passing Scayles Music on the Southside today, don't go past here very often, what do I spot as I pass, on the day our election results came in but this electoral display they had put up - electoral ukes! Different ones with each of the party leaders on them - or should say former as three of the ones pictured here all resigned today after a drubbing at the polls. Been a very unusual election, especially here in the Scottish constituencies, but this is one of the more unusual electoral images I've spotted! Apologies for reflections, normally to shoot something in a window I put the lens as close to the glass as I can, but no way to do that here and still get all six instruments in shot
The New Hampshire state seal used in this image was was adapted from an image in the public domain available via Wikimedia.
John Sidney McCain III, aka John McCain, is a Republican United States Senator from Arizona. He is running for re-election in 2016.
This caricature of John McCain was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream.
Elections to the ' Lok Sabha ' the Indian Parliament has since been announced ! The 15th general elections are scheduled to be conducted between 16th April to 13th May 2009 !!
( Photo taken at Guruvayoor , waiting for a while to snap this trumpeting posture ! Thank you tusker !! )
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People still seem confused in the UK about the election result and why people who support proportional representation are moaning.
In the UK, the winner takes all in every seat, and so if candidate one gets 51% and candidate two gets 49%, candidate one wins. This could be repeated across the entire country, with one party getting every seat in the Commons, despite only getting 51% of the vote.
The chart shows the discrepancy when applied to all parties. Green numbers are seats based on what you'd get from the popular vote. Red numbers show what we actually got, due to 'first past the post'.