There are many explanations for the low turn out at the general election, the IPPR calculates it was just 52%, an all time low. A great deal will be people who wouldn’t vote for any one but the Tories but couldn’t support this bunch of chancers and failures.
Then there is the fact that the result was well known months in advance and many people will, rather stupidly in my opinion, have decided the deal was done and they could safely stay at home.
But the figures also show voter turnout was higher amongst older ,white, home owners and lower among the young, the poor and among ethic minorities. All the kind of people less likely to have voter ID or less likely to bother getting it just to vote.
As the IPPR puts it the haves speak much louder than the have nots, much more of this and we may as well re-introduce the property qualification for voting.
The shameless attempt by the Tory government to rig the polls therefore worked, how many fewer seats would they have got without voter surpression?
New legislation from Labour is expected to entail automatic voter registration and lowering the voter age, a person who is 18 could be 23 before they get their first chance to vote.
But it also has to remove the ID requirement, which was introduced on the obvious lie that it was designed to stop voter fraud, in fact it has been the largest fraud of them all.
It worked, it is shameless, it has to go.
I’ve visited many countries were voting is illegal or worthless, you don’t want to live in a country like that. I would therefore make voting compulsory, but if you are not going to go that far, at least making it easier rather than harder, would be a good start.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
In everyday life, the term "politics" refers to the way that countries are governed, and to the ways that governments make rules and laws to manage the human society properly. - Wikipedia and that means the views of all the nation - no ifs no buts - awful cliche