Photo ID now a requirement to vote in the UK

[NoXion]

This word woke, it’s become an almost obligatory badge of arseholeness the last few years, like what would they do without it the people who use it like this what would they say instead?
There used to be ‘politically correct’ but that hasn’t got the rage in it and wasn’t quite the same was it.

It's similar to when I see people use the term "virtue signalling" in a derogatory fashion. It's a massive give-away that the person speaking is some kind of sociopath, who can't comprehend that someone might actually believe in the things they say and do.

 

[bimble]

It’s quite handy in a way, a nice easy way to identify idiots. Or people who consume Fox News/ daily mail a lot.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s quite handy in a way, a nice easy way to identify idiots. Or people who consume Fox News/ daily mail a lot.

There's nothing wrong with reading eg the daily mail - know thine enemy and so on. It's if you start accepting the falsehoods they retail as fact that it becomes a problem. Same thing with any newspaper tbh

 

[eatmorecheese]

This beat is
This beat is
This beat is authotronic

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Thread ignored.

 

[Orang Utan]

Am on page 9. Does StakerOne shut up eventually?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Am on page 9. Does StakerOne shut up eventually?

On page 14, they've put the thread on ignore.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's impossible to have remote voting without losing the secret ballot, though I'm open to being proved wrong.

It’s secret at home too, you fool. You just don’t show anyone.
And you’re spouting fact-free shite about how postal votes work - such as your weird idea that you vote as a household

 

[Orang Utan]

I won't be voting. I have ID.

Still under 18?

 

[Orang Utan]

We have to submit the applications for voter photo ID at work.
There’s not been much interest. I have done just one for someone who didn’t need one. They just wanted to be reassured. We’ve been told any voter can get one even if they don’t need one.
Have to say the security for this is far from robust. All hubs have a special tablet that is only used for the applications. We have to take the photos of the voters ourselves. And then we have to remember to delete the photos after submitting the application. I also had to disable autofill and empty the cache on the tablet I used, as it was retaining previously phone numbers and email addresses. I imagine loads of people will not bother to do this.

 

[8ball]

I like Kathy Burke's take on 'woke'.

Does she have a take on “authatronic”?

 

[Serge Forward]

Has that Stalker character fucked off? If yes, I might take more notice of the thread now.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Has that Stalker character fucked off? If yes, I might take more notice of the thread now.

Yes. flounced off the thread on page 14.

 

[Serge Forward]

editor can we have a throws hat in the air emoji please.

 

[PR1Berske]

editor can we have a throws hat in the air emoji please.

To be suitable for crypto-dudes could it be a fedora?

 

[Serge Forward]

I have a fedora

 

[PR1Berske]

I have a fedora

Oops.

 

[krtek a houby]

Fedoras. Bah, clearly woke .

 

[Serge Forward]

Acherly, I have a whole hat collection: fedoras, pork pies, flat caps, etc. I collected them when I stopped smoking 13 years ago.

They make me look even more dodgy so never worn em since.

 

[krtek a houby]

Acherly, I have a whole hat collection: fedoras, pork pies, flat caps, etc. I collected them when I stopped smoking 13 years ago.

They make me look even more dodgy so never worn em since.

Plus, they won't be acceptable in the photo ID

 

[Serge Forward]

Unless you want ID for a dodgy bookie or horse trader.

 

[8ball]

I have a fedora

Fedoras are cool.

Indiana Jones wore a Fedora.

 

[SpookyFrank]

you've wasted your entire life

Not yet.

 

[krtek a houby]

Unless you want ID for a dodgy bookie or horse trader.

Have about twenty hats. Not been to the bookies for years, but am still getting used to the baldness kicking in quite recently. Well, ok, the 90s... which is when the hats started to appear...

 

[brogdale]

Have about twenty hats. Not been to the bookies for years, but am still getting used to the baldness kicking in quite recently. Well, ok, the 90s... which is when the hats started to appear...

I don't really like hats but accelerating hair loss has caused to wear them most of the time, either to protect from cold or sun. I suppose there's a sweet spot in about October where I can go without, but most of the time it's a fecking hat.

 

[krtek a houby]

I don't really like hats but accelerating hair loss has caused to wear them most of the time, either to protect from cold or sun. I suppose there's a sweet spot in about October where I can go without, but most of the time it's a fecking hat.

Yeah, didn't want to end up looking like The Edge, but it's happened and the hats have landed, so feck it...

Was very weird back in London, there was a time that some pubs and venues would ask you to take the hat off. Not just on the door, or on grounds of taste but for the entire duration of being in the premises.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Voter ID checks could overwhelm election staff, councils warn

For the first time, people will need to show photo ID before voting in England's local elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

Voter ID checks could overwhelm election staff, councils warn

For the first time, people will need to show photo ID before voting in England's local elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

i'm astonished 3/4 of people know about it

 

[brogdale]

Voter ID checks could overwhelm election staff, councils warn

For the first time, people will need to show photo ID before voting in England's local elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting snippet in that piece:



Sounds like a major incentive for significant numbers of the disenfranchised to kick-off in the polling stations.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Interesting snippet in that piece:

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Sounds like a major incentive for significant numbers of the disenfranchised to kick-off in the polling stations.

Yep.

Doing fuck all for fear of upsetting the polling station peoples won't get shit done. It's almost as if direct action, however minor, may be more effective than tutting at your keyboard. Who knew?