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Brexit -am I stupid or what

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  1. noisette47

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    I'm impressed! The GE hasn't even taken place yet, let alone Brexit 'getting done' , and you've gone back to pounds, ounces and probably farthings already! :-))
     
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      It states on the polling card that you do not need to take it, but it will reduce queuing if you do.
      So you can actually vote if you want to.
       
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        True but I took the absence of a card to mean I'm not registered as only registered voters get them. It's too bloody hard to get an answer as to whether we're registered or not!
         
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          If you go along surely they will know or not?
          I have a mate in a similar position, recently moved, he's going to try it and see what they say.
           
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            Actually, noisette,:ideaIPB::love30: that's not a bad idea:dunno::heehee: When we abandoned 240 pence to the Pound and went metric to 100 pence to the Pound the cost of living shot up drastically:wallbanging::hate-shocked:

            My favour was the thrupenny bit, along with the silver sixpence which my Granpa used to put in the Christmas Pudding that he used to make.:hapydancsmil:
             
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              I miss read that, thought it said Fartings.:doh::smile:
               
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                I always take mine, but then I have a brown label, with my name and address on it, tied to my Jacket lapel:dunno::old:
                I can't say that there's ever been a queue when I voted at the local Polling Station.:doh:
                 
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                  Well, there were more of those to the pound as well, Pete, when we were using Imperial as a measurement.:hate-shocked::dunno::heehee:
                   
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                    Never been a queue with me either, infact the people there usually look totally under worked.

                    I was thinking of taking that kind of thing up as a permanent profession;):biggrin:
                     
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                      Well, they're on at least a 18 hour shift, arriving at 6am and leaving past midnight. They also aren't allowed to leave the building or pass on any information during the voting period.:hate-shocked::dunno::cat-kittyandsmiley::coffee:
                       
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                        Yeah I could live with that, for one day every few years or so.
                         
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                          I remember :-) But do you think the COL would go back down? In my experience, change only ever results in life becoming even more expensive.
                           
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                            Agreed, noisette, but the rise in the cost of living become really high when you go from a 240 pence in the pound to a metric 100 pence to a pound because, effectively the pound was devalued by 50%:hate-shocked::dunno:. Price rises instead of rising by a old penny or two pence became a rise of 100% more with the metric system........and that can't be good.:dunno:
                             
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                            Well, at least you'd meet people!!:heehee: You'd still have the Taxman demanding his "pound of flesh" though:wallbanging::heehee:
                             
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                            Here we are on election eve...I simply must keep you all happy & share with you a little joke or two :), I hope you all have your polling cards at the ready....! Xx
                             
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