The polling booths have been closed for just over 45 minutes and now the complaints begin to roll in…from those people who deliberately left it too late to vote and were turned away from the polling booths when they closed at the legal closing time of 10pm. Sorry guys – the law is perfectly clear…closing time is 10pm. No later.
The polls have been open since 7am this morning; you could have voted on the way to work, during your tea break/lunch break, at any time of the day, even after work…why wait until 9pm with only an hour to spare for gods sake…? sure enough plenty of people take the day off when it suits them after a bank holiday or when they have a runny nose or sore throat, if voting today was important enough for you then you should have planned ahead.
My guess is that those who missed out on voting were those people who smugly announced they would not vote at all…until their senses got the better of them and it was too late. Serves you right for being smart arses – you wasted your chance to have a say in your own future. On the other hand, those long lines of would-be voters look a little too contrived for my liking – a case of a very desperate Labour Party transporting some last minute voters to the polls…?
My suggestion would be to do in the future what Australia does; hold the election on a Saturday when people are generally off work and more available to vote. Why on earth it is held on a weekday here is beyond my comprehension…
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Stupid idiot British people, they had the chance to really change their country for the better and instead they either leave it too late to vote or they waste their votes on people like Clegg who were never going to win in the first place. Looks as though the benefits scroungers managed to get out of bed and drag themselves down to vote for their employer though.