Comments on: Are the changes in voter registration designed to help the Conservatives as changes in voter ID laws in the USA are designed to help the Republicans?

By: Josef K

Josef K — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:56:00 +0000

In the ‘Land of the Free and the Brave’ [USA ] not only are Prison inmates denied their vote in the Democratic process, but in certain States anyone who has ever had a prison sentence is debarred too. Guess which socio-economic and / or BAME groups that disproportionally affects …..

In UK, we’ve already seen tens of thousands disenfranchized by the link between having to be registered for the Poll Tax (and its regressive offspring) and the right to vote.
So :
given ‘The People’s’ Party’s position on prisoners’ rights to vote, what will be your stance WHEN the Tories introduce this (logical) next step of “Once a non-citizen prison inmate – always a non-citizen” move to disenfranchize more of the ‘underclass’, Chavs, etc. ?

By: Joe MacFarlane

Joe MacFarlane — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:20:21 +0000

The missing million. When Maggie and the Blue Reich brtought in the Poll Tax, oops Council Tax a million working class men disappeared. Many went to Spain but a lot did not. I looked at my real name, an entry in 2003 another in 2004 and that is it for the last decade.

By: Josef K

Josef K — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:14:26 +0000

Party Lists for the 15 year 2nd chamber elections
Reduction of the # of seats in urban areas
Party Lists for MEPs
Reserved seats for Clerics
Dismantling of the Branch-GMC-NEC Labour Party pipe-line
Vilification of TUs by Blairites
Refusal of Blair et al to repeal Anti TU [Thatcher] laws
Kettling
Judge Jefferies style ‘justice’ for Twittering kids, but Bonuses of £Ms for City Thieves & Spivs
Piratization of OUR=NHS [GPs are Private Contractors !]
Exploitation of Volunteers and Interns to occupy paid jobs

What are you doing about it, Comrade ?
When were you last kettled?
Did you stand out against Blair, and now against his acolytes?

By: Quietzapple

Quietzapple — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:57:18 +0000

Amusingly localish police are carrying out routine checks on a friendly flatmate whose job is to involve slightly sensitive material, very obliquely (he plugs computers in etc).
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They require of him DoB etc of his flatmates.
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I was security cleared for a job in the early ’70s which meant I knew which Barclays etc bank alarms were working and which not. They even found out I’d been on the 1962 Aldermaston march. No prying into flatmates’ details.
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Flatmate says all info destroyed after his application is dealt with. I’d rather have ID cards than all this piffle, which is quite likely to end up with credit rating agencies I suspect.
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So we have to go further out if our ways to get on the Electoral Roll/s, but are expected to stand up, salute and answer their questions when they want to waste our time.
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21st Century Rowlocks!

By: Quietzapple

Quietzapple — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:42:43 +0000

Yes they are. However that is a corollary of disenfranchising the poor, the mobile – the underclass or untermenschen. If those who are being persecuted by these rich toff wannabe billionaires cannot vote that anger will be expressed in other ways.