General Election - 4th July 2024

[SebastianBlue]

Instead of that I think they will go all in on PR if they get votes but no seats

 

[TinFoilHat]

Instead of that I think they will go all in on PR if they get votes but no seats

They will.

And that train will gather traction if the Libs somehow become the opposition.

We may well have a referendum on it. Not like those have turned out well...

 

[bluethrunthru]

I don't think I said my name...

I think I somehow failed to follow a simple instruction and just said the first line of my address and handed over my driving license.

Got away with it.

Funny one from earlier - a lass I know from my local Lidl lived with her mum and dad then she and her partner bought the house next door. She told me she went in to vote not knowing the system ( I know ) so produced her driving license. She hasn't changed it so the address in number 12 when she lives at number 14 and told them that was her address when asked. They concentrated so hard on the picture and her face they didn't seem to get the address discrepancy and she voted.

edit update - is that voter fraud?

 

[west didsblue]

just been and voted. drawn a cock and balls next to all of them and popped it in the box

Why waste your time?
Honestly can’t see the point of spoiling a ballot paper. Some random volunteer will lob it in a bin and add it to the total of spoilt ballot papers. Nobody else will see it and nobody cares.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

 

[bluethrunthru]

Risk v reward. Why waste time and money on a false stolen election narrative when the idea he could have made PM when explaining that getting more votes than another party yet fewer seats as a result is easy to explain to the trogs whilst at the same time if you get your way you could become a small but significant sized Parliamentary party.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Difficult to argue with, but surely braverman should be in there...
Picking just 3 is too difficult

It is hard to pick 3 but I believe Patel walked so that Suella could run. She was a major initiator of the slide into what can only be described as comic book villain politics.

 

[The blue phantom]

Back into odds on for the Tories to get less than 100 seats now. 4/7

 

[SebastianBlue]

Risk v reward. Why waste time and money on a false stolen election narrative when the idea he could have made PM when explaining that getting more votes than another party yet fewer seats as a result is easy to explain to the trogs whilst at the same time if you get your way you could become a small but significant sized Parliamentary party.

I don’t think the Twxttxr users are strategising, mate, which was who I was referring to.

 

[Rascal]

Tom Skelton is 36 and lost almost all of his sight due to a genetic condition. Today, Tom was able to vote completely in secret using a combination of apps on his smartphone. In previous general elections, Tom says he had to be assisted by a companion, meaning his vote was never fully independent.

At the polling station today, Tom used apps that can read images out loud along with magnification apps to help him vote. One of the apps did not prove completely reliable and Tom says this meant “voting was a slow and lengthy process”. Despite this, Tom says he was able to vote for his intended candidate and - importantly - he did so in secret.

Tom added that, while the technology worked for him this time, many people in the blind or partially-sighted community don’t have access to a smartphone so this is not a solution for the vast majority who still cannot vote in secret