Simona

A Simple British and Italian citizen who loves fairness, and not nonsense (BS)!!

[Simona @postre2011]

@elonmusk I would love to but in my area is still £75 a mo th 😩

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so.

The Electoral Commission has been explicit: Labour's justification for delaying local elections is not legitimate. Not unwise. Not clumsy. Illegitimate. Extending mandates damages public confidence, undermines local legitimacy, and creates a clear conflict of interest by letting councils decide how long they can avoid voters. In any functioning democracy, that would end the matter. Here, the government presses on regardless.

That's the scandal. This is no longer a party political dispute or a row between Reform and Labour. The referee has intervened and said the game is being rigged, and the players have decided to ignore the whistle. When a government continues with election delays after being told by the independent authority charged with protecting electoral integrity that its reasoning does not hold, the issue stops being reform and becomes power protecting itself.

The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden. Democracy is reduced to a cost-saving exercise, something to be postponed if the spreadsheets look untidy or the reorganisation plans are mid-flow. Ministers speak of "capacity constraints" as if the right to vote is a luxury item that must wait until the filing cabinets are rearranged. In a democracy, administration exists to serve elections. Elections do not exist to suit administration.

The conflict of interest identified by the Electoral Commission should alarm anyone who still believes in democratic norms. Councils are being asked whether they would like to delay the moment they must answer to voters. That's not consultation. It's self-dealing. No serious system allows those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. Yet this is now presented as a "locally led approach," as though outsourcing democratic suspension makes it virtuous.

Worse still is the uncertainty. Candidates have been selected. Campaigns have begun. Money has been spent. And with months to go before polling day, the government is still dangling the possibility of cancellation. The watchdog describes this uncertainty as unprecedented. That word matters. Democracies rely on predictability. Once elections become provisional, subject to last-minute ministerial approval, the entire process is degraded.

When challenged, ministers retreat into condescension. Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft." This is a familiar trick: speak for the public while denying them a voice. Redefine democratic rights as common-sense nuisances that sensible adults should stop fussing over. It's the rhetoric of managed democracy, where participation is tolerated only when it produces the correct outcome.

None of this is happening in isolation. Mayoral elections have already been postponed. Now council elections are being pushed back again. The pattern is clear. When the polls turn hostile, the timetable moves. When voters become unpredictable, the vote is delayed. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to buy time. They face the electorate and take their chances. Labour is not doing that because it knows what the numbers say.

The danger is not just that millions of people may be denied a vote next year. It's the precedent now being set. Once a government learns it can delay elections after the watchdog objects, after campaigns have begun and candidates are in place, the principle is broken. Elections become conditional. Democracy becomes something you are granted when those in power feel safe enough to allow it.

"Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft.""

[Simona @postre2011]

@WallStreetApes In some of UK supermarkets is the same

[Simona @postre2011]

@RadioGenoa @grok is it true?

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Douglas Murray left Piers Morgan SPEECHLESS:

"Hamas could have used the billions of dollars since 2006 to build up Gaza. They built a tunnel network bigger than the London underground. They want the death of their own citizens in order to get world opinion turned against Israel"

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Simona @postre2011]

@maisonsdumon I’ve been trying to reach you with no success. I placed an order in July and still haven’t received anything. Can someone please respond? This is getting ridiculous.

[Simona @postre2011]

@Iberia still at LHR waiting for my flight to Madrid - already lost my connection - no news what so ever - what a poor service- it’s the only flight delayed -

[Simona @postre2011]

⁦@LBRUT⁩ the state of this under passage at the bottom of Terrace Garden is appalling and dangerous. Are you waiting for the road above to collapse or for a child to fell in. It has been like this for the last 4/5 months. Time to fix it dont you think?

[Simona @postre2011]

@Keir_Starmer How can someone put a “like” to his messages….i feel betrayed over and over and over again. I hope there is a Karma somewhere….

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Lee Anderson asked the Home Office one simple question about illegal migrants on small boats.

They didn't have a clue.

Sir Matthew Rycroft, the useless Home Office permanent sec on the right, earns about £190k p.a and has a £1.7m pension pot paying £103k p.a.

DRAIN THE SWAMP!

[Simona @postre2011]

@RachelReevesMP Where do you find the courage to write something liket this ? You cannot be serious….if you love this country (doubt it very much) and for the sake of it please Resign

[Simona @postre2011]

@elonmuskADO 15

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

ENERGY - Here’s Starmer telling you he will freeze energy bills

“It’s a political choice”

Labour was elected on a manifesto of lies to the electorate who believe them. It’s nothing less than election fraud ‼️

[Simona @postre2011]

@sharrond62 I hope so but I think she is “stuck” on that chair….

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

“Not a penny more on your Council Tax” @Keir_Starmer. Yes, not a penny more, on average £109 more. How many more broken promises Keir?

[Paul Golding @PaulGolding]

JD Vance is 100% correct.
The UK will end up being the first radical Islamist country with nuclear weapons 😤

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

OMG … is this intelligent lass spot on or what ?

I couldn’t have said it any better

[Arthur Muir @ArthurMuir1901]

@tomhfh You know it is fair enough to pass on condolences to the family who has lost a loved one, however using that loved ones death to perpetuate faux racism when, by trial and jury, there was no racist motivated murder, is divisive and simply wrong. This is misleading the house.