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L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 21:02 on 21st June 2008 Ok Andy, try this link, if you do one.... email it to me and i will send it out to everyone I know in the UK |
Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 21:54 on 21st June 2008 Thanks Lyn, will do. |
Jo Adams Posts: 231 Joined: 23rd Sep 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 22:42 on 21st June 2008 On 21st June 2008 21:02, Lyn Greenaway wrote:
Email it to me too please Andy and I'll do the same. Shouldn't take long to get LOTS of signatures lol |
Posts: Joined: 1st Jan 1970 | Very commendable and I will sign it in a flash, but it's the obnoxious Tony Blair that should have been hounded out of office long before he swanned off leaving this mess behind. Talk about slamming the stable door! |
Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 00:05 on 22nd June 2008 You're right Sue G.R. I made the same point on the previous page. |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 02:24 on 22nd June 2008 Democracy in action.... I didn't punctuate the sentence because I didn't know if it was a statement or a question. Do they have any voter initiatives or propositons that make it to the ballot over there? |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 07:57 on 22nd June 2008 Count me in Andy! |
L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 08:29 on 22nd June 2008 On 22nd June 2008 02:24, Ruth Gregory wrote:
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Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 19:09 on 22nd June 2008 Hi Lyn: It happens mostly at the local level - city, county or state where a group of citizens can circulate a petition and if they get the required no. of signatures, it can become a ballot initiative and can be passed directly by the voters, without having to go thru a legislative body. Sometimes it works well, but some of the measures that have been passed this way have been really boneheaded. |
L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 19:26 on 22nd June 2008 Ok Ruth, thanks (clear as mud lol) I dont think that happens here, but I HAVE benn known to be wrong sometimes LOL |