Voting

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Just heard that we are to have an election in the 'second half of the year'.
If I were setting the date, I'd choose Christmas week, to ensure an even lower turn out than usual. Cynical.
Please, whatever your political leanings, if inertia is your problem, rather than a true abstention, request a postal vote. It's easy.

well today's rumour is 4 July. I will be on holiday. I have a postal vote but for the local elections it came the week before, I would miss it if so

They're all sides of the same pile of freshly excreted crap. If 'None of the above' was an option, I'd show up personally and tick that box.

I also want to see low turnout eliminated and the best way to do that, in my opinion, is to make the voting day itself a public holiday so that everyone has a chance to vote, which will also remove the need for postal voting in many cases.

maybe that is their plan, have it in the school summer hols when most people will be abroad and cannot vote😁

It’ll be 4 July or 11 July, I think.

The Tories need light evenings and warm weather to get the older voters out.

Scottish and Northern Irish schools finish for the summer the last week in June so lots of people are on holiday at the beginning of July.
Having said that, when the SNP announced the date of the next referendum, they chose a week when almost all the schools in Scotland would have been on holiday.

I will only vote with a postal vote.

I have no interest in going somewhere to do it, when I can just pop in the postbox

VolvoFan, You are very trusting, I think it would be treated as a public holiday for visiting Gran, having a barbeque, going to a funfair. Not going to a polling booth.
I would love to see the turn out increase, please spread the word about postal voting.

SapphireSlippers, Exactly, so easy, then the date is not so vital.

I'm not, I just prefer to start simple. My next suggestion would be to introduce compulsory voting with 'None of the above' as an option. It requires the general public to have an understanding of politics. All this country seems to know is "Fuck the Tories, amirite?!".

Well, you are not wrong! I think watching an episode of PM question time should be compulsory, watching these elected people braying, shouting down the opposition, the total lack of respect that some of these MP's have not only for their fellow MP's but the judicial process is astounding.

This is what Australia does. If you don't like any of the candidates you just spoil your ballot, but you have to vote and get fined if you don't.

Generally there's also a BBQ outside the polling station and you get a "Democracy Sausage" for turning up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

Early October to make it hard for students to get registered in time...

Sounds perfect. I want that here.

'Early October to make it hard for students to get registered in time...'

Yeah, exactly. Postal votes for students, remind them!

Rishi is about to make an announcement.
Robert Peston and the nice blonde itv newsreader man are killing time live outside No 10 now.

Tom Brady is the name I was trying to remember

Bradby!

My nearest postbox is further away than my local polling station, otherwise I might do the same.