Off Topic Oh No..... Not Another Political Joke................

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Question: Can I vote if I've been drinking?

Answer: Yes. Polling station staff cannot refuse a voter simply because they are drunk or under the influence of drugs.

FACT

 

BTSport's Head of Social Media spent the walk into work considering political parties as Premier League teams....

 

Harry Enfield from a few years ago, giving us a sampler of what to expect from the DUP...

 

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This is the Dutch view of events.

 

This could prove to be the game changer Corbyn is looking for...

 

Doubts exist, but some are saying this is Boris. A motorist took the picture and it has spread all over the Internet.

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Probably rehearsing a speech, after all, he usually talks out of his arse!

 

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Looks like the mysterious Lord Buckethead, aka The Dark Knight, has been rumbled...

 

I must admit, this made me LOL

 

Ah well, that's it for another three weeks then...

 

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/stu...0390164-detail/story.html#cpTigbrM2476mqW9.99

Arrogant twat

"Our students have the right to vote in this constituency but, at the end of term, they return home to their own constituencies. This situation creates an imbalance of voting patterns, with the result that many local people feel disenfranchised by this large number of transient voters. A far more equitable system would be to stipulate students should only be permitted to register as postal voters in their home constituencies. The current situation is very unsatisfactory and needs to be rectified urgently."

No doubt he wants them to vote via postal vote as he'd like former Tory MP Peter Lilley's IDOX to get their hands on them before anyone else can count them.

 

Indeedy

 

Jokes aside I can see the issue. Students tend in large numbers to be transient. Electing people who will be making long term local decisions well after they have moved on seems a bit crazy. But on the other side of the coin voting somewhere on more widespread issues obviously needs to be encouraged.

Perhaps there needs to be a more obvious divide between who you vote to go to Westminster, or wherever, and those who make local decisions. Separate strategic and tactical decision making. I have found myself more than once caught by a desire to have party A running the country but a local member of party B running things locally.

Having said that I've solved my quandary by moving overseas. I don't vote on principle unless an election was fought on a key global topic - like going to war.

 

I didn't vote on principle either until last year and this. However with the present policies that have a direct effect on me I did exercise my right.

 

I'm not sure I agree - in today's world, you could say that the four years a student spends at university is two years longer than a parliament lasts.

But seriously, the councillor in question belongs to a party that has, one way or another, 'encouraged' mobility in the workforce like never before - he simply can't then demand that transient people can't vote in their place of residence at the time of an election because they are likely to move on. In fact, I'd lay odds that he has absolutely no empirical evidence to back his apparent claim that university students never remain in the constituency in which they studied. And I'd lay further odds that he has simply reacted to the taste of sour grapes...

 

He doesn't appear to have complained about them being on the register to vote only about the fact that, apparently, they didn't vote for the "right" party.