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Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
Let's just not introduce ID cards. How about that as an idea?A lot of visually impaired people do use smartphones, as accessibility software exists.Incidentally, just been reading the BBC 'what we know' section on ID cards. Apparently, it'll be on people's phones.I wonder just how much thought the government has given to people who are visually impaired and can't use a smartphone. None, I suspect.
I despise smartphones, and don't have one. At least, not yet. Maybe I'll end up being forced to get one thanks to this genius move.
But it would be foolish to stop a programme because a tiny proportion of people would need some other method of accessing it. You do need those other methods sorting out though
Andy_JS
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Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
Tim Stanley from the 'Graph.....Nandy always looks like a kid who's about to burst into tears because she's been refused a sixth chocolate eclair. Presumably this demeanour was even more in evidence this am.
Poor Lisa Nandy sounds like she was told about this last night and has spent the morning memorising proposals she personally finds bewildering.
Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
We need a way to tell if the signatories to the petition are genuine.....A quick look suggests it's currently the 10th most popular petition ever...It looks like it was cleaned out after the General Election. Historic lists can be found here: https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions?state=publishedhttps://petition.parliament.uk/petitionsThey must delete the petitions after a while because the article 50 petition reached around six million, but it's no longer there.
ID cards petition the third largest ever, shortly to be second largest.
Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
Sorry to hear about Ming Campbell. I thought he was a very decent man, and I found him an easy politician to listen to, even if I didn’t agree with everything he said - though often I did.
It was a shame that he never really cut through as leader. I think in an age where there was a lot of focus on our leaders being telegenic and youthful, his face didn’t fit. He also followed on from very prominent, popular figures in Ashdown and Kennedy. But I personally did rather like his more old school brand of politics, even as I can see it didn’t really chime with the electorate at large.
It was a shame that he never really cut through as leader. I think in an age where there was a lot of focus on our leaders being telegenic and youthful, his face didn’t fit. He also followed on from very prominent, popular figures in Ashdown and Kennedy. But I personally did rather like his more old school brand of politics, even as I can see it didn’t really chime with the electorate at large.
Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
This is a good point. But only if we keep the need for ID to vote.ID for voting was unnecessary. We managed perfectly well without it until about 2 years ago.
Lewis Goodall
@lewisgoodall.com
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Right now we have the absurdity of compulsory ID for voting without a hassle free ID system. Madness and unfair to those least likely to have passports/driving licences etc- again, poorer people, younger people etc.
https://bsky.app/profile/lewisgoodall.com/post/3lzq3zbmzcc23
Andy_JS
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Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
Here's something for the connoisseurs amongst us........
Highland Council is live-streaming the STV counts for the two by elections in Ward 7 (Caol & Mallaig) and Ward 11 (Tain & Easter Ross). Here's the link:-
https://www.youtube.com/live/U8sCjbpwiW4
That's my Friday morning sorted!
Highland Council is live-streaming the STV counts for the two by elections in Ward 7 (Caol & Mallaig) and Ward 11 (Tain & Easter Ross). Here's the link:-
https://www.youtube.com/live/U8sCjbpwiW4
That's my Friday morning sorted!
Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
It's a general phenomenon much wider than farmers. Brexit voters are the heart of Reform, the "Red Wall" etc. They shafted themselves with Brexit, but have to find someone else to blame for it. A decade of division and stagnation has resulted from their poor decision and they want to inflict even greater misery on us as a consequence.Didn't farmers shaft themselves over Brexit?Good to finally get an MRP. We've been in the dark about whether Reform's vote share would translate into seats; at these proportions, it looks like they could just squeeze in.We are picking up a lot of anger amongst farmers towards the Tories. A LOT of anger. Not helped by peacocking Tories who think farmers are their block vote who will never leave despite being royally shafted by their government.
I appreciate constituency-level analysis with an MRP is a bit silly, but if the Conservatives really are on track to lose the Scottish border seats to Reform then they are doomed.
Foxy
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Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
@nickeardleybbc
Some sad political news. Former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell has died.
A huge political figure over several decades - and a very kind and thoughful man.
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “All of us in the Liberal Democrat family and beyond will miss him terribly"
Scott_xP
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Re: Tactical voting may not be Farage’s friend – politicalbetting.com
Every jobsworth in the country will demand to see it, just because it will make them feel important to boss people around. That's the reality of ID cards.If it’s confirmed re ID cards then it shouldn’t be just digital . You should have a choice of digital or an actual card.A mandatory digital ID card might be little more than using the Government Gateway login as an ID for accessing some benefits.
My mother, for example, does not have a smartphone, and with her troubles with eyesight and Parkinson's, is certainly never going to have one, so she's not going to be carrying around a mandatory digital ID.
I guess we'll wait and see what the details are.
Andy_JS
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Re: If there were an election tomorrow the Tories would be banjaxed – politicalbetting.com
That's just all the small boats people signing itit is growing at about 1,000 a minute. It will reach 1,000,000 I think.The petition Is already moving towards a million signatures by the end of the day.These petitions are often very interesting in terms of the geographical distribution of signatories. There's a wealth of information there.
A couple of million in time for the Labour conference next week would be a good result.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?ref=ed_direct
On this one it's interesting that the major urban centres - e.g. London and Birmingham - have very low rates of signatures at present. Maybe they will catch up later. At a first glance I'd say that it looks like areas with strong Reform support have high rates of signing this petition.
This might just be because it has spread over the parts of social media used by those voters first, but it suggests this won't be a way to win back those voters to Labour.
In some constituencies, over 2% of electors have already signed it.
Eabhal
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