I assume most people here already are registered but just in case: here’s the link.
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I’m just going to bump this: The deadline to register is 11:59 on Tuesday the 18th.
If you are not yet registered, you have less than 35 hours to do so.
Please vote to protect trans people.
I’m assuming this means vote against the Tories but please correct me if I’m wrong.
I have no dog in the fight with this topic but I will be voting against the Tories (in part at least) because they have sought to deflect attention from their failure and contempt for the public by using trans issues as a false enemy and decoy, massively wasting political resources and demonising my fellow countrymen/women/people for their own gain. Fuck em.
That is good you’re recognizing the situation as the divide and conquer strategy as it is.
Trans rights are humans rights. If the Tories can continue to strip away at ours they will come for everyone’s eventually.
Also by supporting trans people you’re advocating for increased freedom of personal expression.
For sure; that’s why it pisses me off so much. At least with traditional bogeymen like Putin/Covid/inflation/Bin Laden etc it’s a plausible ‘other’. Trans people are UK citizens and we drink with them at the pub. It’s literally an attack on our own cohort, to our own detriment.
Which party in England explicitly supports and protects trans people?
Protect trans people by voting tactically against the Conservative candidate. The Conservatives have completely bought into waging a culture war and trans folk and immigrants are public enemies according to their current ideology. It distracts the voters from 14 years of self-inflicted or worsened-by-policy economic catastrophies. Please don’t “both sides” this.
Check stopthetories.vote to see who you need to vote for to get the bastards who destroyed this country out. It will update in a day or two.
Yeah, I got slammed by my friends for not voting tactically when Jeremy Corbyn was on the ticket but Labour didn’t stand a chance in my constituency. This time I have I have no hope in my heart, only vengeance.
On that site:
Our electoral system needs upgrading, and if you join us then collectively we can influence the next government to upgrade our democracy so that every vote counts.
It’s extreme wishful thinking to expect the next Labour government to change a voting system that just gave them a landslide to one that would have them governing in coalition.
Maybe, however It also saw them in opposition for 70 out of the last 100 years.
I’ve pinned this post to the instance.
One of the best things we can do is encourage everyone to get to get registered, and get ready to vote.Congrats Frank, please don’t change the title to something horrid while I’m busy :)
Too late, I’ve already changed it to say VOTE BINFACE.
(I am, of course, kidding.)
We only need 27k readers registered in richmond.
To write in binface.
And you have to admit. Sunak losing his seat ti Binface would be poetic. No matter what happens to the election as a whole.
Bindependance is coming
I recognise a bindoctor when I see one.
OOI, how do I say “I’ve seen and read this, I don’t need it at the top of my feed every visit any more”?
Your default sorting may handle it. I have mine set to Top Day, and because it was from over a week ago, it doesn’t show up.
Unfortunately, I’m not aware of another way to do it, other than blocking poor old frank, or waiting a month!
Stupid question, but do you have to register in advance to be able to vote? Why is that? In Germany, every citizen eligible to vote gets the necessary documents automatically by mail.
Worth noting things like jury service are selected from the electoral register. So you are basically opting in to democratic society.
I guess the government would also need to collect citizen data unnecessarily without consent in order to be automatically opted in. The UK is actually kind of libertarian in some aspects in autonomy around identity and right to be known to the government, etc. Although it would be basically impossible to actually function in the society and not be on some form of system, you could probably exist without anything more than your birth being registered.
You can kind of have your cake and eat it though. If you just ask HR to provide a letter saying they need you at work, so you need to be excused from jury duty. I’ve done that like 4 times over 3 workplaces.
Edit: then the other cheat code is asking the assessor if “jury nullification” exists in the UK
opting in
It’s an offence to refuse to provide your details. It’s compulsory, not optional. I’ve had someone come to my front door and demand I fill in the form.
Wow. Apparently that changed in 2013 as well.
Honestly don’t blame folks for not knowing this. With all the voter ID stuff it really was not made clear to the public that a fine was added. Most brits grew up in a system where it was entirly optional.
There really has been no attempt at publishing this change.
It only applies if a registration officer specifically asks you to register. And honestly that has been very rare up to now. Makes me wonder why the tories felt this was needed.
It’s not an offence to refuse to register to vote. You sure you weren’t being scammed?
Apparently since 2013. Yes it is. Took a while to find the law. So honestly the gov really did not point it out to folks. The ID stuff overrode this change.
It only applies if a registration officer actually asks you to do so. And that request must be given in writing. So honestly I can’t help but wonder why they felt the need to add it.
Is there any harm in re-registering? I should be registered, but didn’t get a polling card for the police commissioner vote a few weeks ago.
You should still always try and vote anyway. I didn’t get my polling card for the council/mayoral elections this month but I was registered and allowed to vote.
Yeh, you don’t need a polling card to vote. I didn’t realise there was a vote until it was too late though. Assumed there wasn’t one in my area this time around.
I hope people don’t re-elect Galloway et al. I understand he was a protest vote, and why he was elected, but the man doesn’t care about anything. He attaches himself to something he reckons will get him votes. He won’t actually fix anything.
And also remember to look up the list of accepted photo ids and get yourself set up with at least one that you can take with you to the polling station. https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need
This. Even Bojo forgot.
Publicity stunt
Remember in FPTP you often need to vote against the party/candidate you don’t want to win, rather than voting for the one you do want.
There are many sites that will help you determine who is best to vote for if you strongly feel that a particular party/candidate needs to loose.
Link from a site that does this: https://tactical.vote/ Most of them seem to be doing a bit of house cleaning atm or waiting on an api update
Even our democracy is designed to make us focus on the negative.
I’m sure everyone here already knows, but basically everything has gotten worse over the past 14 years of Tories
Vote how you like, but just remember the track record if you even remotely are entertaining a vote that would potentially benefit the Tories.
Yes but you see the war in Ukrainian happened, and Covid happened and that’s responsible for all of the bad things, including the bad things that predated them. Basically the takeaway is it’s everybody else’s fault. Especially Labour.
That’s a sneak peek of the Tory election campaign
Question because I don’t remember. I am registered to vote via post because I’m currently living abroad. I re-registered a month or two ago because I knew this was coming. Now I’m registered already, what do I have to do? Does my ballot just come in the post automatically? Or do I need to trigger it somehow?
If you’re already registered for a postal vote at your current address, you should be fine!
I don’t know what being fine means though! I can just sit back and relax and check my postbox in a week? Or in 4-5 weeks? Or I need to print something off and send it myself? I couldn’t find anything actually describing the entire process on the gov website…
I don’t know about internationally but internally postal votes usually go out about 2 weeks before the actual election that gives you time to realize yours hasn’t come and raise mary hell about it.
I would have assumed international votes would come out a week earlier due to the nature of having to go through foreign Postal services. Although given the alternative is the RM, that might actually speed things up.
And don’t forget you’ll need photo ID now.
Don’t be like Boris.
He 100% did that as a publicity stunt.
Good move too, as it reminded a lot of people to bring their ID.
No.
