Niall McCrae
Police officers are ready for action today – not from the usual reports of crime in the town centre, road traffic accidents or domestic incidents, but at the normally orderly setting of the polling station. They are expecting calls from staff dealing with irate members of the public who are denied access to vote. That’s because at local elections around the country, you will not be allowed to vote unless you prove who you are.
Your polling card is worthless, and your name and address on the electoral roll will not get you a ballot sheet. If you don’t bring a passport, driving licence or one of a few other acceptable forms of photographic identity, you will be banished by a state that seems to have abandoned any trust in the people. You will be an unperson, among a multitude of others who have never had to show their papers to do their civic duty.
In a recent article Photo cards for voters – one step nearer digital identity – The Conservative Woman I warned of this development as another step towards digital identity. Anyone who does not have valid identification was invited to apply for a voter authority certificate online. However, according to the Good Law Project, which is mounting a legal challenge Don’t deprive people of their right to vote – Good Law Project to the government prior to the next general election, merely 4% of the estimated 2.1 million people lacking the required forms of identity have sought such certification.
The Good Law Project predicts a significant number of voters will be sent away from polling stations, unable to cast their vote. This will inevitably have an impact on results, because some segments of society are less likely to have either a valid identity or to use the internet to get a voter authority certificate. I am thinking not so much of the minority ethnic groups that the likes of the Runnymede Trust always argue are disenfranchised, but the elderly.
Older people are the most persistent voters. On any polling day you will see octogenarians with their walking sticks determinedly making their way to vote for the umpteenth time in their lives. Today, some will have made the journey in vain.
Meanwhile, an increasing number of people are deciding to abstain from voting, many for the first time. The Covid-19 regime, Net Zero scam, uncontrolled mass immigration, transgenderism and other policies that nobody voted for are imposed on us whichever party we vote for, and whatever promises are made by manifesto. Having witnessed the behaviour of almost every elected politician in denying Covid-19 vaccine injuries, why vote at all?
My plan today is to turn up at the polling station and force staff to prevent me from voting. I will not argue with them. I will simply make a point that our time-honoured rights and liberties are being taken away, unless we surrender to the creep of state surveillance.
Unless you have a really good anti-establishment candidate standing in your area, I implore you do the same.
