I’m ranting today because it’s the first Thursday in May and I’m not being given the opportunity to exercise my prerogative! Disgraceful with a capital ‘D’. Contrastingly, in the town where I work everyone who is eligible is being given the chance to exercise their prerogative today and some have arrived at the coalface bragging that they have done so already. In fact one chap even reckons he’ll pop down to his local community centre and do so again later on this evening. I didn’t think that was possible but following a nudge, nudge and a wink, wink he swore he’d be exercising his prerogative again in a few hours time.
I can tell, Ron, you prefer the more antiquated term, voting. Myself I prefer to exercise my prerogative. Apologies incidentally for turning this thread into an episode of a ‘Carry On…’. Although I’ve always maintained that there is a novel in this forum or at the very least a ‘Carry On...’ film.
This is becoming commonplace in the workplace too with a hideen agenda for most. The advantage - you get a free trip..time off work or substantial contribution to your fundraising event in some far away place! It seems now that more and more people want to do incessant amounts of charity work and highlight this on the works intranet. It is very much a 'look at me' syndrome plus a definite way to Brown nose your way up the ladder. I m all for donating to charity when I want to but now it seems it is frowned upon if you don't want to donate or partake. I constantly hear about charity events now..it's overkill and pathetic. We don't need it rammed down out throats all of the time!
You may be mistaking common voting for your exclusive rights as Freeman of the County awarded to you by HM (prerogative). In your rural idyll, the opportunity to pledge your allegiance to The Bearded One and his cohorts is not available this year. If you were unfortunate enough to live in London or one of the post-industrial metropolises where the great unwashed flock to worship His Coolness, all or as many as a third of the populous have the facility, although in actual fact it will be a surprise if more than twenty per cent exercise their democratic right, such is the apathy towards local government. In places where the whole council is up for re-election, voters could have three votes if they live in a ward with as many representatives. They could be awkward and cast one vote for each of three different parties’ candidates to try and prevent any from getting control. That would force the bungling incompetents to compromise, work for the common good and count the pennies.
Yes, here where I live we could choose 3, I picked 2 Conservatives and the 1 UKIP. I did a little searching online but could not garner much info about any of them on the whole ballot paper of around 10 candidates. The bone idle political sheep around here vote Labour anyways.
Watching from afar, this is the big story for me https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...n-trial-polling-stations-latest-a8333916.html A solution to a problem that doesn't exist that creates a needless problem
It's mental - how much is it costing to enforce it? For the first time in my life I handed my paper in unmarked. Had a choice between labour and conservative and I don't want to vote for either.
Standard here in Germany that you have to show ID to vote, and everyone should be able to identify themselves anyway. Load of fuss about nothing and much worse if people are voting under false pretenses or when not eligible. I guess it is a cultural thing - here everyone has an ID card which they carry at all times - it’s in the wallet with the drivers license, bank notes and debit/credit cards.
I find it incredible you do not need to prove who you are to vote. I went in to the polling station today give my address and name to the couple, they cross me off a list and i vote. I could be anyone. I could put a hat on, change clothes and go back in and vote again and again for friends and family. This certainly does happen too.
I think it's the lack of warning. If everyone knew then that's not so bad but it all seems a bit of a knee jerk. You're right about culture though - showing ID is second nature in a lot of countries. I never have a problem with it as I had no choice but to carry it till I was 25 as I could never get served in the boozer without it
Totally changed my view on UK ID cards over the last few years, can't come soon enough for me. However one of my main objections previously was a total lack of faith in our Govt's capabilty to roll out an IT project of this scale and that hasn't changed. Just this week nearly half a million women have been missed off health screening cos the computer said no.
Oh bollocks that's got me recalling all sorts of major cock ups that should have been avoided. I still find it very depressing that some companies can be so incompetent when it comes to IT. ****, ****, bugger
The town I work in is one of those piloting the ID thing – you couldn’t vote if you didn’t turn up with your bar-coded poll card which was then apparently scanned (you didn’t have to provide ID as such just present your poll card when you voted). Haven’t heard any horror stories but it is most deffo a break from the old norm.
And while I’m on what about electronic sliding doors that don’t open until you have ground to a halt in front of them. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
Made me smile this post. I'm so with you on that one, the amount of times they've made me look like a tit as I've played my own game of chicken with them telling myself they'll open, they'll definitely open. Then they don't and I've nearly face planted!
