UK stands down 6,000 no-deal Brexit staff - after spending £1.5bn -
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Court overturns referendum as voters were poorly informed ... in Switzerland -
Switzerland’s supreme court has overturned a nationwide referendum for the first time in the country’s modern history, on the grounds that the information given to voters was insufficient.
In a ruling that may resonate in Britain, where remain campaigners have long argued that voters in the 2016 Brexit referendum were not adequately informed, the court said incomplete detail and a lack of transparency had violated the freedom of the vote, which could now be re-run.
“Given the tight outcome of the vote and the seriousness of the irregularities, it is possible that the result of the ballot would have been different,” the federal court said. It was the first time a result had been annulled in Switzerland, where voters have been called to vote more than 300 times on over 600 federal-level referndum proposals since 1848.
…This is how a country deals with a flubbed referendum or election in a civilis/zed fashion
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French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer -
Die, monsteranto, die!
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Mother requests return of cannabis oil seized at UK border -
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THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY (Quella villa accanto al cimitero)
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)