Postal Letter

UK: How could we have a fair election during a postal strike?

The Conservative leader is using childish insults to try to force a general election before the current government has served 3 years. How can there be a fair election, while the is a postal strike? What about many of the the elderly, handycapped, and others who depend on a postal vote, do the people accusing people of bottleing out, actually want every vote to count?

Public Comments

1. They say that the postal ballot is above board and not abused, My wife is disabled and is entitled to a postal vote, She is not interested in politics so i would have end up with 2 votes. I know people who have used other peoples postal vote to vote several times. Is it possible that politicians are so desperate for a turn out that they will turn a blind eye to the abuses perpetrated by this. If you live in Scotland they throw 10% of the votes away, So who cares about voting anyway, it's all a sham to make us think we live in a demoracy. Unlike the true state of affairs which is we live in a third of one. House of Commons, House of Lords, Royal Assent.
2. good point! but i should think the strike will be over long before the election can be up and running. of do you know something i dont?........but yea!! it couldnt be done could it. christ)) there'd be about a million votes screwed.
3. WOW!! Y'all have *that* many disabled people? Your elections are invalid because they have problems voting? Wow... no wonder the Islamist are taking over... there are not enough able bodied people left to object.
4. there would never be an election these days during a postal strike so it's a redundant question
5. There are more deliverers of mail than the Royal Mail and any one of them could deliver ballot papers to our doors and return it at the same time.
6. Why do we need to elect a fair. They just turn up with swings and roundabouts etc. once or twice a year.
7. Sprinkle, I suspect that you are still quite young and have not yet become cynical with regard to politics. Todays about turn by UNELECTED Brown, shows you how much spin is involved. Despite assurances by Brown that spin ended when Tony left. Postal votes are so open to abuse, as was recently shown, particularly in Birmingham, that they should really be restricted, to members of the armed forces, who are serving overseas, to people who are already registered as severely disabled and nobody else. Please note that it was Brown that floated the idea of an Autumn Election, and then bottled out.