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[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
I would love to have been the poll officer. Just pretended to have no idea who he was.
I can absolutely see him as the kind of person who would naturally forget to do something like this, but conveniently "forgetting" your ID when your government introduced it is also a great way to get in the headlines again...
This is very funny, but what's going on at the Guardian? Why is the link for this the same as the one for Johnny Mercer apologising for veteran's cards not being valid ID?
I have spent the last few minutes trying to work that out.
edit: best I can tell, the Garudian have cocked up and replaced the original page with the one about BoJo.
WTF I love this rule now!
Once again this stupid rule seems to hurting the tories the most
Well of course it will. My grandmother used to vote Tory automatically mostly because he didn't pay attention to the news, she didn't have a valid passport or a valid driving license. So she wouldn't have been able to vote for them.
The fact that they introduced this policy and made her go through the trouble of getting some form of photo ID annoyed her so much that she got one, and then actually voted Labour in the last election.
So it is hurting them from two angles, they will lose votes from people who have no photo ID and that will disproportionately be the elderly who statistically are more likely to vote for them, and it will annoy people into voting for another party. Most younger people will probably have some form of photo ID anyway, if only it's a provisional driving license. Apparently even an expired driving license is acceptable so this law really does nothing.