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Should Some Groups Need to Pay to Vote? – politicalbetting.com
Should Some Groups Need to Pay to Vote? – politicalbetting.com
This sounds like a crazy question: but should the government introduce measures that require certain groups to pay if they wish to vote?
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I don't drive. I don't want to carry my passport (Which is anyway currently expired, but will be renewed when I have a prospect of going anywhere) on a 3 mile round trip walk to the polling station.
So I will vote by post. I applied for one in March cos I didn't think it was fair on the poll workers under the circumstances.
I will continue to do so indefinitely. Doubtless meaning I'll probably get one after I'm dead.
Later, Frost to EU: Protocol isn't gonna work, we need to change it.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/12/uk-ministers-meet-representatives-of-ni-paramilitaries-to-discuss-brexit
No mention of any kind of funding for the staff needed.
Wouldn’t bother me if they did ask for ID though
Shame the EU didn't want to listen to both sides during the divorce. Time to face reality now though.
But better not.
I'm not really convinced. I would like to see some evidence on these alleged delays rather than guestimated models. And just how many people do not have photo ID, or cannot get it easily.
I have concerns about photos as that may engage face recognition technology.
One simple way some countries do it is to require those with no ID to sign a Statement of Truth.
Here is an interesting account of Sinn Fein personation history:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/parties-agree-to-combat-election-personation-by-sinn-fein-26240298.html
"On cultural issues, Labour is being backed into electorally off-putting positions... defined by the woke left." People "dislike prejudice; but they dislike extremism in combating prejudice."
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/05/tony-blair-without-total-change-labour-will-die
Or rent a rather higher rateable value.
And forget the women.
On Trump. "Uniquely strange and unacceptable in his behaviour."
Say what you like about him. He can turn a phrase like few others.
"I believe the Labour Party is in much bigger trouble than anybody realises."
"Does Starmer realise that his traditional vote does not feel the need to apologise for everything this country has ever stood for? They are not ashamed of British history. They cannot relate to these gestures."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/12/think-labour-bad-place-now-aint-seen-nothing-yet/
Are you going to miss the positive aspects of lockdown – are you going to miss it so much that you’re going to create your own personal, regular “lockdown days” just for yourself or your family?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/11/have-you-decided-to-create-a-regular-lockdown-day-for-yourself-or-your-family
I would but I'm too busy wild swimming.
Oh sorry, was the bug in question CV not SAGE?
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"Last week the Teaching Assistant at my daughter's Reception class said to me that she'd asked the class to talk about Birthday Parties - and the kids spoke about Presents and Cake but weren't able to talk much about other things associated with parties as they'd not been to parties. Near the end of the Reception class year and there'd been no school parties in the entire year for them. So the teachers arranged for a birthday party for the class puppet "Claire" and asked for permission to give her cake etc at the party.
She got an invitation to go to 'Claire's birthday' on Friday which she was so excited for and on the Friday came home talking about Pass the Parcel and other things she'd done at the party. 🥳
Both cool that the school arranged that for the kids and a real shame that it had come to that. Such a simple thing wiped out for them to have never been able to experience for real yet."
From SSI2 - Bless the teachers AND your little girl! And a give the lass a hug from PB!
Twenty-nine men have been charged in connection with the sexual exploitation and rape of a girl over a seven-year period in West Yorkshire. The offences are said to have taken place in and around Calderdale and Bradford between 2003 and 2010 when the victim was aged between 13 and 20.
The men are due to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on 7 and 9 July
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57093267
There appears these men might have something in common.
Palestinian ones obviously - wouldn't be seen dead with our own flag.
Sounds ominous. Suspect that Šefčovič will be in no hurry for that understanding.
The Champions League final will now be staged in Porto in Portugal after the UK government and UEFA could not reach agreement over quarantine exemptions for more than 2,000 VIPs, staff and media for the match to be played at Wembley.
Surprised that Jacob Rees-Mogg has NOT already suggested this?
He IS one of England's greatest 18th-century thinkers. Just a couple centuries late!
I still have a fear of Blair. Couldn't lay a finger on him in power.
No need to when you are in total agreement with them.
But I keep being told this is only an issue on Twitter?
Obviously if you travel cattle class on transatlantic flights and drink bottles of plonk less than a £15 you are automatically barred.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1392569640119898128/photo/1
I wonder how many conversations Barnier bothered to have with the Loyalists while seeking to "protect the Good Friday Agreement"?
(I have no recollection whatsoever of that challenge)
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1392560797994340352/photo/1
For context, check out wiki page of actual Defenestration of Prague for context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
Exerpt - Count von Thurn turned to both Martinice and Slavata and said "you are enemies of us and of our religion, have desired to deprive us of our Letter of Majesty, have horribly plagued your Protestant subjects... and have tried to force them to adopt your religion against their wills or have had them expelled for this reason". Then to the crowd of Protestants, he continued "were we to keep these men alive, then we would lose the Letter of Majesty and our religion... for there can be no justice to be gained from or by them".
Shortly thereafter, the two Regents and their secretary were defenestrated, but they survived the 70-foot (21-metre) fall from the third floor.
Catholics maintained the men were saved by angels or by the intercession of the Virgin Mary, who caught them; later Protestant pamphleteers asserted that they survived due to falling onto a dung heap, a story unknown to contemporaries and probably coined in response to divine intervention claims. Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title Baron von Hohenfall (literally "Baron of Highfall").
All LotOs lose a bit of support once the don’t knows filter out!
EDIT - Unless perhaps you could convince Helen Mirren to reprise her role from "Caligula"?
"These are my radicals - And if you don't like them, I have others!"
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
https://libquotes.com/harold-macmillan/quote/lbn1e0z
We really could do with getting the remaining adult population first dosed tout de suite.
It would surely be blistering headline news if the "ethnic" details were in any way reversed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57090767
Never forget the powers that be tried to cover it up too
Proper compromise: bring your polling card or simple ID (including gas bill, bit of paper from govt about your pension, Co-op card).
I think Labour moved on from the idea of no challenges with Corbyn.
I suspect Starmer will be challenged. I suspect from the left. I'm pretty sure that he can be defeated too.
On balance though I don't actually think it will happen.
Unfortunately the website has a far right slant, so it severely taints the data (even tho it seems true to me). This is a phenomenon which has bedevilled reportage of this from the off: most mainstream media are STILL too nervous to really go heavy on this story, even though it is probably the greatest "scandal" in postwar British history.
I cannot think of anything that remotely compares, in sheer size
And as he's the LOTO, the government will implement any of his sensible ideas.
But more importantly, the work she's done since Cox's death, with the Jo Cox Foundation and More In Common, is very impressive and by itself more than justifies her place as a parliamentary nominee.
Also, if she is the candidate, it'll be bloody hard to run any kind of effective negative campaign against Labour.
https://twitter.com/AnushkaAsthana/status/1392577906803609610
Maybe Labour have got some life in them yet.
Macmillan's almost certainly wasn't the first of its kind. Cicero probably said something similar.
PLUS a ticket to win
> 1st prize - £10,000 per year for life AND same for one person you select when you pass (so that IF the jab gets you at least not a total loss).
> 2nd prize (several) - One week, all expenses paid luxury holiday to sunny Gibraltar OR any other appealing destination that will take a fully vaxed-up Brit.
> 3rd prize (say 50) - Personal, guided tour of newly-refurbished No. 10 Downing Street conducted by Carrie herself (a la Jackie Kennedy) including complementary English champagne, Welsh rarebit, Scotch egg (only good in parts) and English mushy peas on brioche PLUS several samples of new No. 10 draperies, carpets and . . . wait for it . . . wallpaper!
That's the CARROTS.
STICKS could include requiring all non-vaccinated to travel to South Shetland Islands for two week attitude adjustment campaign, shortened & concluded as soon as participants/victims get jabbed with one-shot J&J.
Or possibly a ten-hour seminar in a sealed-room with the entire Shadow Cabinet?
https://twitter.com/padraigfd/status/1392575814584217602?s=20
A vaccine centre has nearby has said they have 800 first doses to give ANYONE who wants them. No age requirements.
And as a plus it gives him, and all British unionists, a massive piece of ammunition in the argument against Scotland creating an EU land border at Berwick and Gretna.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Eastbourne_by-election
Have friends in Bolton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meF7NmfnXZ0