So It Was Just Another Dirty Con Trick Then .

[gulliver1]

The Valadity of a petition demanding a General Election was a put up job then ,after dicovering many of the people who signed this  petition are from  people living in Spain and other EU Countries, also Australia UAE and many other Countries around the World ,even China.Just another Con job.There is NO Way this petition will trigger a GE .So it's back to the drawing board for the Opposition party then 🤔!

[Arrods]

//gully just posts stuff he thinks will wind people up - he doesnt give a damn if it's true or a complete fiction.

I don't really know why he bothers - must be a fechin boring life in Malta.//

With respect, I don't see any point in responding to gulliver's posts.  I would have thought we'd all know by now you can't have an adult conversation with him.

[Atheist]

The trouble is - they all enjoy it. Don't take away their favourite pastime.

[Arrods]

I think I might enjoy it if Gulliver at least tried to enter the debate.  He's just a wind-up merchant. 

[ynnafymmi]

@15.36.Thanks for your input Brain Of Britain.As if.

[david small]

It's being so miserable that keeps gulliver happy.

[newmodarmy]

gulliver - you live overseas and voted in the GE, so I wouldn;t mind if people like you had signed the petition. I guess you didn't sign it but I bet if there was petition to put Boris in a ditch, Baroness Mone in prison, or something like that, you'd be keen to sign it.

[newmodarmy]

I can't take posts seriously from anyone who posts obvious windups; can't do links or copy&paste but overuses emojis; can't back up an argument or answer questions put to them; often misuses capital letters and gets the spacing wrong around full stops and commas almost every time.

[gulliver1]

NMA 16.12 If you do not like my posts ..Why do you keep replying to them .

[Canary42]

It was a stupid petition - it's "bleeding obvious*" that opposition voters will vote for it in their millions. A meaningless exercise.

 

*"bleeding obvious" - quote from Basil Fawlty.

[newmodarmy]

gulliver 18:36.  I like what you did their with your, presumably deliberate, even more bizarre spacings around punctuation. You're a card. I take my hat off to you. Can I assume you like my posts as you keep responding to them?

[newmodarmy]

canary, the whole petition process is flawed on that basis.  It seems people take notice of petition figures that support their view but dismiss those that give a result which doesn't match their view. This will achieve little in that the government is not going to hold another election for several years but it might, just might, cause them to reflect, even if just for a moment, on what they are doing.

 

[douglas9401]

I suspect some of the above awake tumescent, positively engorged, at the thought of another day doing battle with the bold Gulliver. 😉

[Atheist]

doug; as I've said before, they love it, and so does AB. Without squabbling there would be no AB.

[newmodarmy]

I left a little way back in there for you gulliver...  I know how you love to pick up on a rare error and ask whether I went to school. 

It's a shame your style means no-one is ever persuaded by your arguments and leads to attitudes being hardened. So at best achieves nothing, at worst turns people off.  In this thread for example I agree that it will not trigger a GE (has anyone ever suggested it would?), but all the noise and nonsense around the point means the main point is lost.

[Peter Pedant]

well, The Times said yesterday that the MPs were going to debate it ! god  knows how, Early day motion perhaps which goes nowhere.

[Peter Pedant]

it is quite possible to vote fraudulently in petitions. all you need is a valid e-mail address and postcode.

yes exactly. The now repealed Public Worship Act 1875 which was enacted near the re-establishment of catholic bishoprics ( difft aread, difft names) also sought to root out Romish tendencies in the Anglican Church , as satirised in  the trollope novels. Six prosecutions were mounted. The one in Miles Platting Manchester, the petition was found to be full of bogus names and addresses. 

( desperately trying to inject some gorm into this thread)

[Peter Pedant]

I suspect some of the above awake tumescent, .....battle with the bold Gulliver

o god you dirty boy!, I hope you washed your hands after that gibe