Probably wouldnât have been so outspoken had she still been an elected politician.
Have you considered having a day off from talking total bollocks?
You better all invest in more pantsâŚ
Because if you wet them every time a politician makes an announcement, then back tracks after an unfavourable reactionâŚ
You are going to be effectively incontinent.
(Anyone recall Blunkett and his ID card Queens speech?)
I have no problem with testing the ground with good and new ideas.
However this was just utterly cynical and was done to improve the tories chances of staying in power by shifting the goalposts.
Instead of gerrymandering elections, why not just make vote winning polices? That goes for all parties and includes boundary changes
Or you could stop being a dick.
If you see what I have put it doesnât make any reference to my views on the policy or itâs merits.
Just that itâs hardly news when a party rows back on an announcement when it goes down badly.
As for the comments it is to stop black and poor people voting I canât accept that sort of unfounded opinion presented as a fact. You donât have to like it (I havenât said if I do or donât!) but itâs toss to throw stuff like that about).
The poor North just won them a landslide!
Well it certainly wasnât done to stop voter fraud
Still being a dick then?
Nothing has been done.
Nothing agreed. No decisions on what constitutes ID.
You have to tell a polling booth who you are, so itâs hardly like you donât have some controls already!
Itâs not unfounded though, is it?
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It was a policy actively pursued by Trump, because he knew it disenfranchises a particular set of voters disproportionality.
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The UK has absolutely no history of mass voter fraud which would trigger such a policy shift.
So why float it?
Why not just do it online then.
Everyone gets a pin number and job done.
Careful now, voter fraud was 0.000058% in the last election.
Itâs attitudes like yours that put us on the slippery slope to chaos.
Thatâs the point. Itâs not needed now, and I donât think it is needed now.
I do think it will be needed In the not to distant future, and more to do with more advanced ways of voting.
As for saying Trump did it becauseâŚ
Boris doesnât want to upset the poor lefties who have flocked to him. Itâs on the debate register as itâs a question that will get more relevant ober the next few years. In my opinion!
Itâs more likely to affect the elderly as they donât have smart phones. I donât buy it will stop chinos of voters. I do buy that it will become a bigger problem as people want more accountability and certainly in systems. I canât just say itâs to stop black people as thatâs just throwing mud.
Eh?
Have a read of this Steve:
It is nothing to do with security and all to do with discouraging the young and the poor from voting as they are least likely to have I.D.
I have seen the shambles in America this last year. The fact you can allege fraud is worrying, as there really isnât much to stop it.
I donât think we want to go that way, and have any scope for that argument. I believe this is just as likely to be getting ahead of the curve as it is a real go at trying to disenfranchise.
Might be wrong, but I might be right!
And computer systems are a damn sight more safe from interference than pieces of paper !
Anyway, once weâre all on soshul meeja Cambridge Analytica will know how weâre going to vote much more accurately than we do ourselves, so we might as well just let them cast our votes for us.
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