Oh great, so now not only has poor old Mrs Ashworth lost her arthritis PIP payments and is facing eviction for not being able to pull up a few dandelions... she can't even visit her grandkids in France during an election without forfeiting her vote. What a bunch of cunts.
@LizWebsterSBF Why stop there? Why not require A-level standard English and a minimum IQ of 100 to vote? Indeed, that would kill off Reform, Restore, and the Tories all in one go. I'm for it. 👌
🚨 Desperate Reform intends to waste parliamentary time creating more social division with an amendment designed to generate headlines.
They want polling-station officials to judge whether voters understand English or Welsh well enough for their vote to count.
Think about what that means.
Parliament determines who is legally entitled to vote. Reform wants to hand individual polling officials discretion to impose what amounts to an additional language test at the ballot box, creating enormous scope for inconsistency, discrimination and arbitrary disenfranchisement.
And what happens to elderly voters? Deaf or non-speaking people? Someone with a speech impediment, learning disability or communication difficulty? Or a perfectly lawful voter whose first language isn’t English?
Preventing electoral fraud or coercion is one thing. Giving an official the power to decide whether an eligible voter’s English is good enough for their ballot to count is something else entirely.
This is dangerous territory for a democracy.
Ive found out that you can prevent chocolate digestives from going stale by eating the packet in one go. This also works for other types of biscuits too.
I've never had measles
At one point I was quite literally surrounded by dozens of kids with measles
And it's one of the most infectious viruses known to man
How do you think it's possible that I didn't catch it?
@TheTateClips Ah probably shouldn’t have raped and trafficked those women then, that’s what happens when you do crimes, you don’t get to hang out with kids
Trump just signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America" to “punish” Canada for beating him in the trade war.
And literally no one cares.
It's Lake Ontario.
It's Gulf of Mexico.
It's 34k mentions in the Epstein Files.
The old standing Kop filling up for the last time in 1994. Many Legends enter the pitch here, but The Kop knew who put Liverpool on the World Footballing map more than anyone by singing the name of BILL SHANKLY louder than anything.#YNWA#LFC
‘Someone can arrive tomorrow and immediately vote’ is a wonderfully dishonest way of describing the law.
They still have to meet the eligibility and residence requirements and register.
What you're proposing is removing the vote from qualifying Commonwealth citizens who may have lived here for decades — and empowering polling officers to decide whether voters speak enough English to get a ballot.
You're not protecting British democracy from foreigners. You're deciding which legally resident people count as British enough to participate in it.
@RobertJenrick It’s strange you don’t mention that immigrants from Australia, New Zealand and Canada can vote in UK elections if they have permission to stay, Bob.
Almost like it’s about the colour of their skin for you.
Do you honestly think this is how a government should treat good honest people, @AndyBurnham? Does she look like a terrorist to you? No, she's simply exercising her right, as a British citizen, to protest, and she's doing it non violently. Get rid of this ridiculous proscription.