Here is the link where you can find out what photo IDs are valid

Please reblog to get the word out!

Y’all there is some fucking monumental shit going on in the world rn.

Recently UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out holding a general election on May 2nd – the date many localities are holding elections.

So now we have a better understanding why there won't be a spring general election.

According to an extensive survey, if elections for the House of Commons were held now, Conservatives might end up with fewer than 100 seats in the 650 seat chamber. By comparison, Conservatives won 365 seats in the last election in December of 2019. Expressions like catastrophe and wipe-out are appropriate in describing the Conservatives' likely electoral fate.

The Conservatives are on course for their worst election result, winning fewer than 100 seats, according to a new poll. The seat-by-seat analysis gives the Tories 98 constituencies compared with Labour’s 468, giving Sir Keir Starmer a 286-seat majority, the Sunday Times has reported. The 15,000-person poll, conducted by agency Survation on behalf of Best for Britain, gives Labour a 45% vote share with a 19-point lead over the Conservatives. Rishi Sunak’s party is on track to win 98 seats with none in Scotland or Wales, according to the research. It also suggests the prime minister is at risk of losing his own constituency, the new Richmond & Northallerton seat in North Yorkshire, to Labour with his lead less than 2.5 percentage points. The analysis forecasts that Reform UK will come second in seven seats and achieve an overall vote share of 8.5%, just behind the Liberal Democrats on 10.4% The poll also suggests the Scottish National Party would pick up 41 seats, the Liberal Democrats 22 and Plaid Cymru two.

The London based betting company Smarkets currently gives Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer a 90.91% chance of becoming prime minister after the next election. Incumbent Rishi Sunak gets just 2.50%; that's even behind Conservative Ben Wallace, a former defence chief, who currently is not even in government.

Of the 21 UK general elections since VE Day in 1945, 11 have been held in May or June. Only 1 was held in July with none in August or September. Although there hasn't been an October election since 1974 (the last of four since 1945), my guess is that Rishi Sunak may just wish to get it all over with by that point; on October 25th he will have been PM for two full years.

One of the most important messages I can send here.

Here we go again lads.

Gavin Williamson has resigned.

How he was ever let near politics in first place is beyond me. How he was allowed to stay this long is purely down to a lack of integrity and brain cells in the Tory party.

Here’s to the next prime minister, I expect we’ll be seeing you soon.

I saw a tiktok about this and it's deadly important that i get ahead of the trend:

Yes, Labour suck. Keir starmer is dreadful and he doesn't give a shit about trans rights or, blm, or being fucking left wing. He's a centarist at best

but

You have to vote for him, if you live in an area that leans Labour, he is our best bet. If your area leans lib dem or independent, GREAT, vote for them, but if your best bet to oust the tories is Labour, it's gotta be done. This country is in shambles and another tory government will absolutely devastate it

A disapointing Labour government is better than ANY tory one. It will have been ~15 by the next General Election, and this country will be nothing with another 5 years of the tories

Please sign and reblog this if you care about Britain having a government that knows what the fuck it’s doing. Thanks a lot :)

Three speeches and contrasting values

That the people of Scotland have the right to choose is beyond question. What I hoped to hear from Stewart Hosie was something about how it is proposed to enable us to exercise this right.

A couple of headlines in today’s Sunday National looked promising as I cast around seeking inspiration for an article. With a column in which Stewart Hosie, the SNP’s campaign director for the forthcoming UK General Election, outlines his plans and a report previewing Humza Yousaf’s address to the STUC congress in Dundee on Tuesday, it should be possible to gain a clear idea of the party’s…

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A vote for independence?

In a way, to say that a vote for the SNP is a vote for independence is to state the obvious. The party's constitution still leads with an unequivocal commitment to restoring Scotland's independence. So, a vote for the SNP should be a vote for independence

As expected, party leader Humza Yousaf tells us that the SNP’s offer on the constitutional issue in the 2024 UK general election will be the claim that “a vote for the SNP is a vote for independence”. He makes much of the fact that this assertion will be the first line in the party’s manifesto. What is lacking is any word on a second and subsequent lines on the topic. Surely, if there is a…

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Reminder: If you have no voter ID, apply for a postal vote.

Don't Lose Your Vote! UK Edition

A snap general election could be called any day. This will be the first general election that requires photo ID if you vote at the polls (postal votes 📫 are unaffected by the Election Act 2022).

If you don't have an approved form of identification (list here), you can apply for a FREE voter ID photo card. Find out more below or use these 5 minutes to register and get your ID sorted instead ❎ because, and this is important to know, the government really doesn't want young people to vote.

The Explanation

Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, may call a snap election in 2023. (A snap election is a vote brought in earlier ⏱ than the one that’s scheduled 🕐) The UK’s next general election (for MPs and the PM) is meant to happen between December 2024 and January 2025.

A snap election happens in as little as 25 days 😨 between the announcement (aka the PM asking the House of Commons’ to approve the dissolution of Parliament) and the vote 🏃‍♀️

You must be registered to vote - currently over 8 million people are not. Unlike other a democratic countries, the UK doesn’t automatically register all eligible voters. You have to do this yourself. Here’s a quick reminder of how to register:

Over the past 15 years, it has gotten harder for British citizens to vote:

Families can no longer register to vote as a household 🏡 so young voters must register themselves (Cameron Govt)

Colleges and universities are barred from registering students 👨‍🎓 (Cameron Govt)

The Elections Act requires photo ID 🤳 for anyone voting in person (Johnson Govt)

Local elections (for city and town governments) in 2023 were the first votes that required VOTER ID. According to the Electoral Commission, over 14,000 people were turned away from the polls because they had not heard about the change.

The House of Lords tried to amend the Elections Act before it passed, to include more common types of ID, such as bank statements, bills, student ID, library cards and much more. This amendment was struck down in the House of Commons. A lot of the IDs included in the approved list are more likely to be owned by older voters than younger ones. For example, a 60+ Oyster Card is acceptable ID but an 18+ Oyster Card is not.

Here’s the important thing to know: voters who don’t have a driving licence or passport or other approved forms of ID, can apply for a free voter ID photo card. Watch the video below to find out how!

And finally, please, for the love of our democracy, vote.

"Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles." Abbie Hoffman

In the UK, the Labour Party just flipped a seat in a by-election. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been doing this quite a bit recently.

This time it was in Scotland in the constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West. Labour support skyrocketed over results in the last general election. The seat had previously been held by a member of the scandal-plagued Scottish National Party (SNP) which has 44 seats in Parliament.

Labour has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party's candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with 17,845 votes - more than double the number polled by the SNP's Katy Loudon. The result was a swing of 20.4% from the SNP to Labour. The by-election was called after former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier was ousted by her constituents for breaking Covid rules. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a "seismic" night and that people in Rutherglen and Hamilton West had sent "a clear message".

This was the second-best result for Labour in this constituency since the second Margaret Thatcher win.

The ruling Conservative Party saw its support drop by 11.1 points in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. It's their latest disappointment in the unusual number of by-elections which have taken place since the 2019 general election.

But the worst may be yet to come for the Conservatives.

I was looking at a YouGov/The Times poll taken in the UK in early October and noticed something astonishing. Only 2% of those polled in the 18 to 24 age group said they would vote Conservative. Even when poll results are weighted by likelihood of voting, that number creeps up to just 4%.

If that's too small to see, check out the PDF for full poll results.

I don't regard polls as infallible, but this looks downright miserable for the future of the party of Brexit.

The slightly less poor Conservative standing with the 25 to 49 group (10% raw, 15% weighted) shows that the longtime trend of voters becoming more conservative as they age is not as strong as it might have been in the past.

The next general election must be held no later than 28 January 2025. Though it would probably be held sometime between May and December of 2024. Of the 21 general elections since 1945, 15 have taken place in May, June, or October.

‘nobody wants a general election, obviously’, says second PM in a row that wasn’t voted in by the general public, wasn’t even voted in by members of the party let alone the people he claims to represent, and whose party is predicted to lose said general election