festa5
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Aye, I don't think it'll be enough by some way.You mean by the voter i.d thing? Can still vote by post though, can't you, even if you don't have i.d?
Allowing old people to use an oyster card, and not young people is ageist though, and other crap like that.
Suppression won't do anywhere near the damage they think it will, like with the i.d, it will deter the conspiracy theorists and unicorn believers who think they're being tracked everywhere, and my bet is most of those are RWNJ's.
Then there's the fact that people are so mad with the Tories, that I expect turnout against them will be massive, yet their turnout might be low, but we'll see.
Their real issue is the cost of living crisis. People can kid themselves about a lot of stuff about the Tories, but there's no getting away from it when they start to directly be affected and see the government do naff all other than imply we all need to tighten our bents while at the same time backing a minister to the hilt for "accidentally" not paying tens of millions in tax.
The Tories have no answer to it. Partly because they're ideologically opposed to taxing big business and government intervention, even if people are starving.
But also because most of them are so detached from reality they're incapable of grasping the real impact it's having on people. £1k a year extra to heat the old stables is "chickenfeed" (to quote Boris) for them.
Half of them don't really believe people are suffering. The half that do know it, such as a lot of the "red wall" MPs, tend to be poor examples of humanity who simply don't give a **** anyway.
The only thing that might prompt them to take action is if they think it might give them a chance of staying in power. But I think they genuinely think people are exaggerating and it's not that big an issue, so they'll continue to do nothing and hope their pathetic dog whistling and culture wars is what people care more about still.