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Cactus Jack wrote:Proof of ID is proof of ID.

The name on the polling card should match the name of the ID with a photograph on it.

Or if you've forgotten your polling card the name on voter roll should match the name of the ID with a photograph on it.

Job done.

Cactus Jack wrote:

Stooo wrote:

Cactus Jack wrote:I think we're now probably looking at an October election.

The Tories won't want a summer election because in term time the votes, and the campaigning energy of some very motivated students, will be concentrated in urban areas where the Universities are and the Labour Party are already strong. In summer those students and their energy will be distributed across the Tory shires.

The trust in the postal service has gone with older people and the postal vote option because of communism (union action) rather than mismanagement at an upper level, I obviously can't give my opinion. This provides a perfect storm in the gerrymandered photo ID polling booths that they refuse to visit because of having to show a selfie on official forms because they can't be arsed and never had to before.

Mogg admitted that this was a bullet to the foot.

The photo-id thing is just a bad idea.

Even the choice of what is and is not suitable shows the intent - you senior citizen's bus pass is valid but for some reason your Student Union Card is not.

Stooo wrote:

Cactus Jack wrote:I think we're now probably looking at an October election.

The Tories won't want a summer election because in term time the votes, and the campaigning energy of some very motivated students, will be concentrated in urban areas where the Universities are and the Labour Party are already strong. In summer those students and their energy will be distributed across the Tory shires.

The trust in the postal service has gone with older people and the postal vote option because of communism (union action) rather than mismanagement at an upper level, I obviously can't give my opinion. This provides a perfect storm in the gerrymandered photo ID polling booths that they refuse to visit because of having to show a selfie on official forms because they can't be arsed and never had to before.

Mogg admitted that this was a bullet to the foot.

Cactus Jack wrote:I think we're now probably looking at an October election.

The Tories won't want a summer election because in term time the votes, and the campaigning energy of some very motivated students, will be concentrated in urban areas where the Universities are and the Labour Party are already strong. In summer those students and their energy will be distributed across the Tory shires.

Avon Barksdale wrote:

Stooo wrote:

Avon Barksdale wrote:Seems unlikely. That would be like turkeys voting for Christmas...

Think the Conservatives will hope for a good summer to limit their losses at a General Election at the least.

And give the R parties more leverage?

Looks that way...

I've seen a recent poll with Labour 28 points ahead and Reform only 5 points behind them now. This could be very, very bad for the Conservatives.

‘I want my country back’: what’s in a phrase?
Lee Anderson’s decision this week to join the Reform Party, becoming its first, if unelected, MP brought into focus several of the Brexit themes I’ve been writing about in recent months. At the beginning of October, discussing the ways that Brexit has driven the Tory Party mad, I made specific reference to Anderson, then the Deputy Chairman, as illustrating how there are no discernible differences between many sections of the Tory Party and Reform. So, given the prompt of losing the Tory whip, it was an obvious move for him to make. It’s possible that other Tory MPs will follow him to Reform without that spur to action, but none have done so yet. And why should they? It is now obvious to all, as it should have been for a while, that, as I wrote in February 2023, Brexitism is eating Conservatism.

Thus the end-game for the Brexitist (or NatCon populists, or Five Families, or whatever label we might use for them) is to take complete control of the Tory Party after it loses the election, and then to bring Reform Party voters and politicians, perhaps including Nigel Farage, into an invigorated ‘true Conservative’ Party. Meanwhile, the job of Reform is to siphon off as much as possible of the vote, so as to inflict a catastrophic defeat upon Sunak, facilitating the Brexitist takeover and paving the way for an actual or effective merger. Who knows, Anderson himself may re-enter the Tory fold in the process. Or perhaps he will disappear into well-deserved oblivion, a footnote in dusty volumes of political history.

Stooo wrote:

Avon Barksdale wrote:Seems unlikely. That would be like turkeys voting for Christmas...

Think the Conservatives will hope for a good summer to limit their losses at a General Election at the least.

And give the R parties more leverage?

Iteats wrote:

Avon Barksdale wrote:Seems unlikely. That would be like turkeys voting for Christmas...

Think the Conservatives will hope for a good summer to limit their losses at a General Election at the least.

Limit their losses there doesn't seem much likelihood of that, unless the Great British public prove how dumbed down they have become and fall for Boris J's (I hear he's coming back to campaign on the Red Wall) bullshit again.

Avon Barksdale wrote:Seems unlikely. That would be like turkeys voting for Christmas...

Think the Conservatives will hope for a good summer to limit their losses at a General Election at the least.

Avon Barksdale wrote:Seems unlikely. That would be like turkeys voting for Christmas...

Think the Conservatives will hope for a good summer to limit their losses at a General Election at the least.