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The old petrol station next to Nissan garage
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Maryland
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Oh, that'll be nice. I'd heard the cable car is going to go right into Staffordshire Place, which will be lovely, won't it, for the councillors who live out that side of Stafford. I don't suppose there'll be many others using it, but we won't be stopped if we want to, at least I don't think so.
And there'll be a helicopter picking up from a few farms out Gnosall way and going there as well. We can use that, but a helicopter's not really for the likes of us is it?
Ooh look, here's this year's council tax demand. I hope they don't send the same bailiff as they sent round last Christmas. He was a bit of a bully. Still, mustn't grumble.
No, I'm not going to vote. No point really is there?
John Marwood
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1JKz
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I'm in already in so they can't do nothing about me, unless UKIP get a seat in Stafford!
I reckon there's planning for 100 houses.
wildwood
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I believe the Nissan garage only has a couple of years left on the lease too..... plenty of land there if that gets razed to the ground.
Trumpet
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The only way is up, babeeeeeeey.
captainpish
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With armed guard and translator.
Gramaisc
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Noah
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Yes, go and spoil your ballot paper if you don't like any of the candidates.
55% of electors vote and 45% don't bother to vote, winning candidate gets 23% of the votes and can say I have a clear majority and complete mandate for my policies as the non-voters were apathetic and not against me.
55% of electors vote for a candidate, 40% spoil their ballot papers and the winning candidate gets 23% of the vote, hasn't got a majority of those who voted, still gets elected but lacks a clear mandate as 72% of those polling didn't vote for them.
Go to the polling station, write "none of the above" or rude comments about the candidates and their ancestors, just make sure you don't make a mark in any of the boxes. Show the ******** the difference between apathy and dissatisfaction with the system.
kyoto49
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Emmeline Pankhurst felt rather differently thankfully. There is a point, Stafford is a pretty marginal seat, a small swing will mean a change of MP. Maybe Labour aren't your cup of tea, but there most certainly is a point to vote, if only to be thankful we have the chance to vote, something most don't value highly enough
Maryland
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Trouble is, I don't believe any of the parties accord similar weight - why would they? - when analysing ballots, to the number of 'spoiled' as they do to the number of legit votes for a real candidate, however lightweight the latter may be. So a deliberately spoiled paper is literally a wasted vote, a waste of that fundamental right of the citizen of a democracy for which men and women of generations past gave their own lives to get for you. No serious contender for a parliamentary seat tailors his or her policy offer in order to counter the 'spoiled ballot paper movement' - because it don't exist - whereas they will, and do, trim their sails to get around support for a non-imaginary political entity. If you spoil your paper, you're pissing in the wind.
Also - and this is in no way a personal attack - to do so is, in my honest opinion, profoundly disrespectful to all the people you'll never meet, because they're dead, who got you your right to have a say in how your country is run and what it does in the world.
Maryland
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Um, I wasn't being serious, K...Emmeline Pankhurst felt rather differently thankfully. There is a point, Stafford is a pretty marginal seat, a small swing will mean a change of MP. Maybe Labour aren't your cup of tea, but there most certainly is a point to vote, if only to be thankful we have the chance to vote, something most don't value highly enough
1JKz
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It would be an ideal site to rebuild the nearby White Lion public house, so expensively dismantled forty years ago, at great public expense - if the entire building hadn't been "accidentally lost"....
That was on the site previously?
WTaF!
Such a shame, I'm sure there was a perfectly valid reason, lets say, to erm, build something shit in its place not worth putting in the history books?
Gramaisc
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It was where the traffic lights are now, where Lichfield Road meets the Queensway roundabout, which is so much of an improvement.
It would be really interesting to know where the material from the White Lion really went when it was "accidentally lost".
This is the same view today.
Maryland
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Planning applications, during the year of demolition and until the claim that the material had been 'lost', involving extensions to or construction of country piles belonging to local politicians and senior administrative officials. Identification of all and any such persons having any business, financial, family or social connection with any business involved in architecture or construction. Interviews of former employees of any such businesses, starting at the bottom.
Gramaisc
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It is very unlikely to be buried in the ground - I suspect, as many others do, that large amounts of it, particularly the internal fittings, are incorporated into many different houses around the local area and beyond.
The 'paperwork trail' of where it really went to seems to be equally elusive....