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T_i_B

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3. Not surprised by this

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2020, 02:00 PM

Mar 2020

Party activists canvassing voters in the current climate would be somewhere between difficult and impossible. And then there's all the hygiene questions people would have with polling stations at present.

This does mean I can't do my usual annual thread about local elections, and it means Labour get a year extra running Sheffield Council. But postponement had become sadly inevitable.

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Coronavirus live news: UK local and mayoral elections postponed to 2021 [View all] nitpicker Mar 2020 OP

ahh... shit. hlthe2b Mar 2020 #1

You just know he'll try this. Arkansas Granny Mar 2020 #2

Not surprised by this T_i_B Mar 2020 #3