wickedsdesires
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It was the Tory Party who introduced UK voter ID for 2024 dumb fuck boscox and solely to disfranchise.
Currently if you vote postal UK you don't need "voter Id" but I expect that will come.
I will give you an idea of the absurdity of UK voter ID some requirements.
For 60+
an older person’s bus pass
a disabled person’s bus pass
an Oyster 60+ card
If you are under 60 then those forms of ID are not acceptable. The reason being is that more people over 60 vote Tory scum party and greater percentage under 60 do not vote for them. And as I said it was the Tory party who intrudced this and to defranchise the UK even further.
BoscoX I am not sure if the Daily Mail is a step up from X, probably is but is competely shit
All British, Republic of Ireland and qualifying Commonwealth citizens meet the nationality requirement to register to vote in UK Parliamentary elections.
Here is a little more You will only be able to register, vote or stand as a candidate in these elections if:
you’re a citizen of Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain who is resident in the UK, has permission to enter or stay in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man, or who does not need permission
you’re a citizen of any other EU country who on or before 31 December 2020 was legally resident in the UK, had permission to enter or stay in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man, or who did not need permission, and this has continued without a break
EU citizens cannot vote or stand as a candidate in UK Parliament elections https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/blog/changes-eu-citizens-some-uk-elections
In the UK's general election of 2024 voter turnout was estimated to have been 60 percent, the lowest turnout since 2001, when it was 59.4 percent. Between 1922 and 1997 voter turnout never fell below 70 percent, but in 2001 it dropped to just 59.4 percent. Since that low point, voter turnout has gradually recovered and reached 72.2 percent in the Brexit Referendum of 2016, which is still some way off the peak of 83.9 percent recorded in the 1950 General Election. The trend of low voter turnouts in recent times is also reflected in the European elections, which had its lowest voter turnout in 2014 at 42.61 percent.
The 2024 General Election was the first in which four parties gained over ten percent of votes and five parties over five percent of votes. Labour and the Conservatives recorded their lowest combined vote share (57.4%) in the era of universal suffrage, with other parties and independents taking over 40 percent of the votes.
Please note all this is people registered to vote not eligible to vote.
Almost as many people voted as didn’t vote in the 2024 general election
With turnout on the decline it casts doubt over the authority and mandate of our elected institutions, with over 19 million registered voters not turning out and an estimated 8.2 million eligible people missing or inaccurately registered almost the same amount of people didn’t vote, 27.5 million, as voted at this election, 28.8 million.
Scotland has a PR system but that does not apply when we vote in the UK parliamentary election. For the Scottish parliament and local elections you can vote 16+ (not UK 18plus)
Interestingly when the Lib Dems formed a very rare coalition UK with the Tory party 2010 one of their conditions was a House vote for PR. Neither Labour nor the Conservative voted yes. Scotland would have and the UK Lib dems
Labour have been vocal in the past about PR yet they voted nae. The Uk is effectively a 2 party sytem but that is changing now.
If you take 2024 Keir Stammer's Labour won a near super majority yet only attained 35% of UK vote. As do the tories. In the UK 30-45%, if you finish first between those two parties usually gets you a majority.
You could start a thread about oligarch's taking America?
Your Daily Mail link is bullshit and right wing propaganda.
29 million voted
18 million didn't vote
9 million are unregistered
UK turn out was basically 50% of our population
My understanding is that the American right does essentially the same thing boscox?
< Message edited by wickedsdesires -- 1/16/2025 8:43:21 AM >
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There is ONE reason to ban voter ID requirements - 
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