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Postal Voting, Overseas and General Statistics

12th May 2019 well_chuffed 0

After the description of how Postal Voting works and by implication, how much it must cost, it seemed worth while looking at the number of overseas postal voters. These should mainly be people who have [more…]

Elections

Postal Voting, What Goes On

9th May 2019 well_chuffed 0

Postal Voting has been brought into disrepute with the wholesale abuse of the system by various sections of the population. The mechanics of handling the postal vote are time consuming and certainly not cheap. The [more…]

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The Counting Centre, What Goes On

3rd May 2019 well_chuffed 0

After the article about a Polling Station, it seems only natural to check out what goes on at the count. Again the Electoral Commission have produced a PDF or three to help us on our [more…]

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A Polling Station, What Goes On

2nd May 2019 well_chuffed 0

As may have been previously mentioned, I will be a polling clerk on May 23rd should the Euro elections take place. It’s my first time so I was expecting some training but no, I have [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Publication

1st May 2019 1642again 0

The first Going Postal serialised novel – The Unseen Path – is now published and available to purchase.  It was serialised over the course of about 11 months in 2017/18, and ran to about 180,000 [more…]

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Globalism v. Nationalism: The Third Part

30th April 2019 Jonathon Davies 0

Here we go again. The power struggle between Nationalists and Globalists continues. I did so dearly hope to be writing from a post-EU Britain, but here we are. A brief reminder that I previously wrote [more…]

Conservatives

Some d’Hondt scenarios

17th April 2019 Going Postal 0

European elections are conducted under the d’Hondt system, which works like this: Each voter has one vote and marks his ‘X’ against his choice of party. Each party puts up a list of candidates, in order [more…]

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Emmet Dalton and the raid on Mountjoy Prison

2nd April 2019 Going Postal 0

This is a story about one of the rebels against British rule over Ireland and about one incident in that rebellion in the early 20th century. Emmet Dalton was born in the United States in [more…]

Arts

Placard-waving and Marching to Exit

1st April 2019 Going Postal 0

The undoing of Brexit has been incremental so that it has been difficult to pin down any one point at which to say “Stop!” We may be reaching the end of this Brexit saga to [more…]

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