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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

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The RDBD said:
AFAIK, Australia imposes financial penalties on non voters.

My suggestion is that if you are :

1, called to a ballot of type T (T = council/MP/referendum)
2. absent, and have no just reason for that

then you are struck off the voter register for
the next ballot event (whatever T that may be) .
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What if you'd have trouble deciphering the ballot paper, like Sucky?
 
The RDBD said:
AFAIK, Australia imposes financial penalties on non voters.

My suggestion is that if you are :

1, called to a ballot of type T (T = council/MP/referendum)
2. absent, and have no just reason for that

then you are struck off the voter register for
the next ballot event (whatever T that may be) .
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It’s so unpunished/easy to get out of they don’t really have mandatory voting at all in practice but threatening non-voters with not being able to vote doesn’t sound a huge deterrent.
 
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The RDBD said:
AFAIK, Australia imposes financial penalties on non voters.

My suggestion is that if you are :

1, called to a ballot of type T (T = council/MP/referendum)
2. absent, and have no just reason for that

then you are struck off the voter register for
the next ballot event (whatever T that may be) .
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How do you know who a non voter is though, you could just put the paper in the ballot box blank.

Also people could just vote for the most outrageous or extreme party in protest.

Just turn up, vote for no one, no fine.
 
brb said:
How do you know who a non voter is though, you could just put the paper in the ballot box blank.

Also people could just vote for the most outrageous or extreme party in protest.

Just turn up, vote for no one, no fine.
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Turning up and putting your ballot in the box is the duty.
You are not penalised for how you use/waste that ballot.
 
Star of David Bardsley said:
It’s so unpunished/easy to get out of they don’t really have mandatory voting at all in practice but threatening non-voters with not being able to vote doesn’t sound a huge deterrent.
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You have to operate on the premise that one
day one will want to cast your vote for some
reason (perhaps the actual new Hitler appears
rather than the embarrassing "they're literally
Hitler" etc) .

But on that day they cannot, because they
treated the previous events with such disdain.
 
The RDBD said:
Turning up and putting your ballot in the box is the duty.
You are not penalised for how you use/waste that ballot.
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I don't tend to respond well to what I see as dictatorial measures, especially as we already have too many of them created just in my lifetime.

I do not condone the following behaviour...

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This is becoming the norm and we do not get a say, protest and life will be made difficult for you...

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Supposedly all to make life safer, yet I feel no safer now than I have in my last 60+ years. So where are these dangers coming from, why are we needing to go to these extremes, we have walked into a police state, something we use to relate to North Korea or China. As people become born into new measures, they become accepted norms, including the younger officers that apply the rules/law, but that does not make it right. Maybe the perceived dangers for keeping us safe have been created by our own governments, because of their past failings or to allow our politicians and wealthy overlords total control on us minions. Keeping communities supposedly safe, when really it's all about total control.
 
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The RDBD said:
AFAIK, Australia imposes financial penalties on non voters.

My suggestion is that if you are :

1, called to a ballot of type T (T = council/MP/referendum)
2. absent, and have no just reason for that

then you are struck off the voter register for
the next ballot event (whatever T that may be) .
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So someone who’s never or doesn’t want to vote will be punished by not being allowed to vote

Logical
 
Rayner calling for Burnham to be allowed to run as an MP and apparently Wes Streeting preparing a leadership bid.

Wes ****ing Streeting. :emoticon-0119-puke:
 
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I think he'll have to be dragged out, no way is he quitting, he will pull every stunt in the book to stay in office. The media can't guess what he's going to say in the Commons tomorrow to change opinion.

So here is my take, he'll probably announce a plan to rejoin the EU tomorrow, he's brought back Gordon Brown for a reason, then the divisive politics will begin.

Let the fighting begin...

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brb said:
I think he'll have to be dragged out, no way is he quitting, he will pull every stunt in the book to stay in office. The media can't guess what he's going to say in the Commons tomorrow to change opinion.

So here is my take, he'll probably announce a plan to rejoin the EU tomorrow, he's brought back Gordon Brown for a reason, then the divisive politics will begin.

Let the fighting begin...

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I believe Labour are gearing up for a referendum as well.

Clear announcement, vote Labour get referendum
 
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