BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION - 4TH JULY

There has been huge suspicion on impersonation for decades, people using votes of people who can't be arsed voting, or people using the "vote by proxy" mechanism, and not voting for the person who was supposed to be voted for.

The very nature of the UK voting system means its very very difficult to prove someone did either above (you show (non-photo) ID,but your ballot paper is anonymous…. you would need a centre with CCTV (which most don't) to even show a person was there to begin with.

This was supported by various social media posts during the Brexit and 2019 General election, of people bragging about voting twice, people voting for a different person in the by proxy method etc… it was inevitable the government were going to respond when you have people openly mocking the system.

OAP passes are government issued and tied to their pension, student bus/rail ones aren't (and are piss easy to doctor). It's that simple.

I hope you had this amount of anger when Government photo ID was required in NI elections since 2003?

Serious question. have you ever voted in England or Wales (obviously NI is different, because photo id has been a requirement there for over 20 years).

You quite literally get something through the letter box, take it to a polling station and vote. At least here we are expected to take a secondary document, even if it is something like a debit card with your name on. In England it was zero, just a bit of paper that dropped through your letterbox and may or may not have been addressed to you.

8 people registered at your address? Great, 8 chances to vote for the same person, albeit you need to make 8 trips to the polling booth.

good oul, switch bait… save a thought for NI and their photographic requirements since 2003…

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Ghost voters is actually more common than you might think.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176591/Tory-councillor-jailed-using-ghost-voters-rig-local-election.html

there were loads of people posting on social media during the Brexit and 2019 General Election bragging about voting twice, using neighbours vote, or changing someones vote by proxy.

Photo ID would not necessarily remove voter fraud even if that was the intention. Anyone determined to commit voter fraud can get fake ID.

The issue is that voter fraud targets a key demographic of the political wing you don't support. It's quite telling that voter fraud allegations come in lock step with a campaign by a president who tried to steal an election by falsely claiming electoral fraud in an election in the USA, a real and serious electoral abuse.

some good background from channel 4 on how and why it came in to being.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-why-will-voter-identification-be-required-for-elections-in-great-britain-and-what-id-will-polling-stations-accept-explained

Rishi Sunak's regime/the Tories in general has run out of rope …. it has in recent years been threatening to pass the Rubicon from normal to far right with its recent policies …. reading Prophet Song reminds me of them …. compulsory military service being re-introduced is a big no for me …. at first it would be a watered-down version like proposed but then it would be made into real compulsory military service bit by bit …. Sunak is one of the most vocal scaremongers when it comes to WW3 …. scaremongering which suits his dreams of a more militarised country …..

War is big industry and this here is the problem …. too many European leaders are talking loosely of war and that is wrong …. too anxious to get over involved in the Ukraine civil war …. and basing their propaganda on comparing the situation to WW2 and pointing towards might bes regarding what Putin could do after Ukraine …. it would do people good to remember that these are from the minds of Western leaders and not Putin ….. and are part of many European countries' ideological move towards the hard right …. we need to dial down this warmongering scaremongering rhetoric and concentrate on positives in countries ….

Sunak and the Tories do not deserve to be the next UK govt …. they have been in power way too long and have nothing positive left to offer …. their tenure since 2016 has been a total mess with Brexit, Covid, and now this scaremongering and warmongering ….. get them OUT now ….

If you say no to war then you should roundly condem Putin for starting yet another.

Transition is something different though - gap year is year taken between finishing secondary school and starting third level. Sometimes it's used for vocation, sometimes for travel or the stuff that would be covered by transition.

a gap year is great, if parents can afford it. Taking a year out to swan around the world on mammys credit card is something completely different though.