General Election - Do you think the time is now?

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by Less

An absolute shame really isn't it?

After all the majority of us including women didn't get the vote until 1928, Oh, how our forefathers, (is there a term for the women that fought for the vote that would be P.C.?), would weep about the hardships they suffered for this, 'I can't give a Monkeys society'?

Aye, you're right there, Less. Women starved themselves for the vote and one of 'em even chucked herself under the Kings horse in the Derby...just think of the poor nag, and even worse, the unlucky punters and the money they may have lost. And now these women are saying they ain't going to vote!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

That's not the only problem. Thanks to that dipstick Prescott easing of the restrictions on postal voting then many of the votes that will be cast will be illegal votes anyway, through a combination of multiple voting and identity theft. Some people call it democracy, Pakistan style, but I just call it an outrage.

The PV system was there for the use of people with ill health, working away, house removal, university students, special late vote (admittance to hospital. there was nothing wrong with that system, and i hasn't had the effect Prescott wanted i get more people to vote, now the system is open to abuse especially the proxy side of the pole

[archiveuk]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

That's not the only problem. Thanks to that dipstick Prescott easing of the restrictions on postal voting then many of the votes that will be cast will be illegal votes anyway, through a combination of multiple voting and identity theft. Some people call it democracy, Pakistan style, but I just call it an outrage.

Well put point.