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Congratulations to the Tories for being the first Government in history to try and rig an election and still getting their arses kicked

I had a college lecturer who had worked as an election official in Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. Some of the stories he used to tell made your hair stand on end.

Your determination to defend the indefensible when it’s done by the present government is as steadfast as ever, however even a single exclusion is unacceptable and if you can’t see that then I’m afraid there is no hope.

I can’t answer for you specifically because I have no idea what photo ID you do or don’t have. But there are plenty out there without any who will now be barred from exercising their (formerly held) democratic rights.

There are few so blind as those who will not see.

My gut feel is it's in place for 2-3 games at the start of the season, then everyone realises it's a total logistical nightmare to do this for 30,000 fans (or 80,000 at other grounds) and it's dropped. A few grounds being half-empty at kick-off because everyone's still queueing outside won't do...

Even if it wasn't fake news from a parody account I still don't see why it would be an issue. It'd be akin to saying "why do I have to pay to go to Brighton games when I can use the beach for free?".

I've heard the same. I also believe it's why Labour are often keen to bring up the subject of bus services for similar reasons.

This just sounds like the standard "get the voters out" tactic employed by all parties in every seat (certainly the ones feasibly up for grabs) rather than anything sinister. It's only an issue if they're being driven from that polling station to another polling station to vote again, which...

Essentially the whole scheme, as far as I can tell, falls into one of these three categories; 1. Entirely unnecessary and a complete and utter waste of time and money which risks disenfranchising entirely innocent people. 2. A cynical attempt to remove a demographic of potential voters which...

Germany already has a compulsory ID card system. Enforcing one without the other is pointless.

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So why are we treating old people and young people differently in what claims to be a democracy where all votes are equal?

So seems this is going ahead, but according to Johnson in the press conference it only applies to “first time voters”. A demographic which, in I’m sure an entirely unrelated development, is far less likely to vote Conservative. 1391795361375821827 A novel idea, preventing people likely to...

Single Transferrable Vote of course is already used in the UK as the Scots use it for their local elections (I think also for Holyrood, but definitely locals)

If I didn't know any better I'd suggest maybe the OP has realised virtually everyone is disagreeing with him and is now trying to get it into the Bear Pit in the hope it'll die off and save his embarrassment.