This country is doomed

Unlike France, for example where you do need to speak French. I personally think that anyone wishing to become a British citizen should be able to speak English.

If this "family voting " is true, ie male family members telling the women how to vote doesn't anyone else think we have far deeper issues ?

I cannot fathom telling my two DC.how to vote or trying to!
One has just turned 18 and it's exciting to me that she has this right . I also wouldnt ask.her who she voted for and wouldn't care .

Don’t you have to have a level of English to get citizenship and therefore the right to vote?

But surely if the volunteers had just seen families turning up at the station to vote, they wouldn't even have mentioned it? It's not remotely unusual for family members over eighteen to go to the polling station together.

If you look at my post of 15:34, Democracy Volunteers confirmed that in some instances they made polling station staff aware of their concerns.

I’ll just leave this here for all you Greens fans who still think the party is still about environmental causes…

https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/2027801087877812595?s=20

The basics as I see it are that both labour and conservative have failed their core voters. Neither have delivered what the centre right or centre left want and have become a jumbled mess of who knows what. Neither party has any soul. I’m very much a god king and country type but the conservatives are no longer that. Equally if you are a traditional labour voter all you’ve seen is rich Islington elites pushing trans rights and free Palestine at the expense of what matters to you trying to make ends meet day to day. Both parties have completely lost their core values and voting base, and this is why there is the huge political shift happening in this country.

So, in steps reform and the Green Party. Reform’s tactics are pretty easy to understand - sell the Britain first message and restore national pride. This will appeal to huge numbers of voters who are tired of being called racist or nazi for being concerned about large scale unchecked immigration that has seen public services and traditional communities ripped apart. They were promised that Brexit would deliver control of our borders but in reality it has achieved nothing of the sort.

And then the Green’s. I can see the strategic playbook a mile off. Align yourself with Palestine and trans rights and attract vast swathes of voters to your cause. A home for the guardianista academic types who would have traditionally voted labour married uncomfortably to at the very least conservative Islam, if not radical, and of course the woke elements of the current culture wars. Clever really. Does this voting base care about deforestation or the plight of polar bears? Some might but who really cares, the greens are tired of having no seats in parliament and this is their opportunity given the void left by the traditional Labour Party. They are debating shortly on whether Zionism should be equated with racism, and in essence supporting a single Palestinian state which will eradicate Israel and align the Green Party with the stated goals of Hamas. This motion is being tabled by Lubna Speitan a member of various pro-Palestinian groups. This is the same Hamas lest we forget who raped and slaughtered women and babies amongst others on October 7th 2023. Make no mistake that this is antisemitism dressed up with blonde hair and a green jacket.

Support who you want but do it with your eyes open.

Abolishing private landlords sounds like an absolutely brilliant idea

For the avoidance of doubt, the leaders of the greens are now protesting IN SUPPORT of a barbaric and radical Islamic regime that forcibly suppresses and kills women for not following strict Islamic rules, and massacres tens of thousands of its own young people for protesting.

Leftist defence incoming in 3…2…1….

According to their report Democracy Volunteers informed elections staff at Manchester City Council about their findings only after the polls closed. They do not claim to have reported what they saw to polling station staff.

Democracy Volunteers don't report what actually happened. They just refer to "family voting" without describing exactly what this means. Is it just a family group all rocking up at the polling station together or is it multiple persons in the polling booths & apparent coercion or collusion?

https://democracyvolunteers.org/major-concerns-over-family-voting-in-gorton-and-denton-poll/

For the avoidance of doubt, the leaders of the greens are now protesting IN SUPPORT of a barbaric and radical Islamic regime that forcibly suppresses and kills women for not following strict Islamic rules, and massacres tens of thousands of its own young people for protesting.

Leftist defence incoming in 3…2…1….

I’ll just leave this here for all you Greens fans who still think the party is still about environmental causes…

https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/2027801087877812595?s=20

It's not clear what Democracy Volunteers are alleging occurred or whether they actually alerted polling station staff to potential offences. Their report makes no mention of alerting staff.

@BlueJuniper94 I really wish I knew! Even if the UK had a strategy in the last decade (not sure they did) it would have been blown off course by COVID, China aggression and Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Trump was elected because the blue collar workers in the USA lost jobs, aka UK redwall (so charismatic right wing leader got in). Mamdani got voted in because living costs too high, therefore socialism/communism required = UK Greens vote.

The UK government needs super bright individuals who can stay the course and execute a strategy.Farage and Polanski definitely don't fit the brief!

Increasing the UK population through immigration however isn't the answer. We have to encourage growth in the new areas, such as AI. Why can't the UK produce Google type companies? It isn't for lack of talent but because there isn't the focus helping the start ups.

A UK CEO of a start up had to go to the US to grow. His company wants to come back but he is telling Kier that many of our universities are not generating the right skills in AI. Too few courses are focussed correctly - cut the useless courses (that exist for bums on seats) and give the funding to the right courses.

Construction is UK based therefore UK taxation, so focus on generating homegrown skills in that area..don't rely on immigration.

Defence is a sector that needs investment, it is UK focussed. No one likes conflict but we have to be realistic.

Encourage hospitality - enable youngsters to work from 16, part time, without the rigourous employment challenges on companies. This creates the culture of work. I'm shocked by how difficult it is to hire Saturday workers (so called in my day)

But it can mean that a future GE makes a party like the Greens or Reform 'king makers' if they get enough MPs. It's not that long ago the the LibDems formed a coalition with Conservatives. If a party that fields their MPs as one whose main objective is Gaza gets the option to be part of Government then we need our heads examining.
FWIW I am politically homeless as are many other people. Who the fuck do we vote for?