UK Politics

This is bad, potentially they should reconsider the election date.

However I think there is a deeper issue here where young people disenfranchise themselves by not voting. Both major parties are pitching all of their policies to OAPs because they are the most consistent portion of the electorate to turn out at the polls.

I remember during my masters degree asking the other students at the pub who had voted in the local elections that day and it was literally just me out of ~20 people! Obviously general elections are different but if you don't participate in the system it won't cater to you.

Of course it's the plan.

Unable to vote? Are they ineligible for postal votes?

Maybe I should read the article 🤣.

Edit:

They also say that an October election – potentially just two or three weeks after freshers’ week in many university towns – would not leave local councils enough time to put many thousands of new student addresses on the electoral register.

Oh ok that makes more sense. In that case register before you go to uni and do a postal vote. It just depends how much you care about voting Vs being young and care free. I know I wouldn't have bothered (and didn't) until after university anyways.

They've definitely fired up the number-crunch-omatic-4000 to calculate the dates that ~~disenfranchise fewer conservatives compared to others~~ best suit the voting public.

No maybe about it OP. They've been trying various different methods to invalidate the young vote. That's a time bomb, as those young people become middle aged they're going to have to resort to even worse means of suppression.

I love how it's always the government's fault if people can't be arsed to register to vote.

It literally takes five minutes. If you were actually bothered, you would make sure to do it.

One of the reasons BoJo called for an election on the 19th December for sure. Lots of students are at home rather than at university and it can be a real pain in the arse to move that stuff around at short notice.