Election Year or Fear!

[SithHappens]

Utterly ridiculous to want to ban postal voting. We?ve voted by post in every election for the last decade, the reason being that we?re usually out of the country for about eight weeks of the year and have no wish to sacrifice our right to vote. Couple that with the fact that many elderly or disabled people just wouldn't make it to the ballot box - especially in poor/winter weather - and there are two damned good reasons for retaining postal votes. Farage really is behaving like a cry baby.

I have before when I was going to be away. No idea who my wife voted for, didn't ask im sure the vast majority of people who vote by post are legitimate, its only become an issue because Reform feel they have been robbed by 'bloody foreigners' of their rightful win. They aren't even hiding their racism in their response to the loss on Thursday.

[ramAnag]

I have before when I was going to be away. No idea who my wife voted for, didn't ask im sure the vast majority of people who vote by post are legitimate, its only become an issue because Reform feel they have been robbed by 'bloody foreigners' of their rightful win. They aren't even hiding their racism in their response to the loss on Thursday.

Can be tricky though Sith. Either last month or late January we both got notification that our postal vote entitlement had expired and asked if we wished to renew, which we’ve done.
Around ten years ago there seemed to be a vote of some description every few months so we got into the habit then. I’m not organised enough to sort it for each time we go away and I’m certainly not sufficiently organised to avoid our holidays coinciding with any elections so I prefer just to set it up for whatever the period of time is, either 2 or 3 years…can’t remember.
I’m sure you’re right, those who genuinely benefit will vastly outnumber those who wish to use the system fraudulently, so why change something that seems, in my experience at least, to work well.

Reform UK and Labour were both well beaten. Starmer registered his disappointment, as he should have. In comparison Farage hasn’t stopped whining.