Proxy must be in your constituency. When I lived overseas, I voted by proxy but first needed to remember where I was last on the electoral roll. My cousin drove from Arnold to Basford to cast my vote.
In my Conservative constituency, lots of stuff through the door from the Lib Dems. Nothing from Labour. I think there was something Conservative but it went in the bin so fast I'll never be sure. Looks like Labour have given up to allow the Lib Dems to take the second safest Tory seat in Wales.
How do you even have a constituency when you haven't lived there for a lot of years? Is it where you were last on the roll?
Yes. It's deeply meaningless, especially since I had no roots there at all and I've been gone for 25 years near enough. I am not complaining since I'd only be voting to symbolically boot Tories anyway.
Bring on PR.
Based on my last UK address I'd be in Poplar and Limehouse, which wasn't a constituency when I lived there. In the last election Labour won it with 63% of the vote, so I don't think my failure to register makes a lot of difference.
I also don't really think it's right to vote somewhere that I don't live, haven't lived for a long time, and have no intention of ever living again. Not really any of my business.
I felt like that until Brexit.
It's a reasonable view when the people are being fairly and democratically represented. They aren't.
Kick the cunts who are ruining our country.
Likewise.
I know it’s only a short clip but perception is everything and Sunak comes off like a prize cunt here.
Awful man, out of his depth and getting routinely exposed. He gives precisely no fucks, however.
So here's where we have got to. We are sitting passively by while we are being lectured by a man who primarily lives and works in america, but has taken time out to run us, on how we should be backing (and made to pay for) a scheme to deport immigrants to Rwanda, before their legal status is established, against international law - that we were instrumental in creating. This man is a direct immigrant, or is first generation from an immigrant background, in both the country that he works in, and in the one that he runs. Pretty much the only policy that he stands for is that everything hinges on stopping immigrants. Which he isn't actually trying to do.
However you skin this, and whatever excuses for the effort put in to mugging us off, you can't help but conclude that we are a deeply weird country.
I know the Tories are in full on panic mode, so here’s hoping for a last minute EOtHO to boost the public mood.
The seem to have gone for filling in some of the many potholes that they have created instead. Hard luck. You'll be lucky to get a free cup of nescafe.
The way I make Nescafe it’d make a decent tar.
When you say “sitting passively by”, you do realise he’s on track for a historic election defeat? Would you prefer something more violent?
I'm not hearing a lot of comment, or campaigning from the population to actually discuss the reality of what is happening (a lot of being sucked into disquiet on some of the fires lit to distract people on the detail of narrow issues, but no real wider level of scrutiny). I'm not expecting you to immediately reach for the pitchfork, but if there is no level of public push back or scrutiny, then nothing happens.
That is passively sitting by, rather than actively letting the cunts know that you wont take it, and you want better for your country.
Maybe you don't? (not addressed to you, but the pathetic supine population as a whole)
So, who should I vote for in this election?
