People are definitely not happy
Around 6% of South Ribble residents do not currently have any of the forms of identification that will be needed to enable them to vote at this year’s local elections.
“You can’t say we’re not having a national ID card because it’s my God-given right to roam the streets of Britain, but if you want to come and exercise your God-given right to vote…[then you can’t] if you don’t have a passport or driving licence,” Cllr Tomlinson said. “For a Conservative government to put a tremendous amount of energy into this during a cost of living crisis – and then pile more pressure onto council budgets through the implementation of this policy – is infuriating. These Orwelian measures have no place in British democracy."
Cllr Foster confirmed that the council would be working to raise public awareness of the new requirements, while Conservative Coupe Green and Gregson Lane ward member Gareth Watson cautioned against “inflaming” people by suggesting that they were somehow being stopped from voting. However, deputy council leader Mick Titherington claimed that the new rules were “about discouraging anybody who is likely to vote for anybody but the Tories”.
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