| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LTN’s - 20min Neighbourhoods — What I Learnt Last Night | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 13/12/23 09:37:00 |
| What has been completely lost in this tit for tat dog fight is what Ealing are planning to do and who exactly is behind it and why are consultations being used that are invitation and/or online only to selected people and whether they are actually local residents? Also there is a loophole that allows students to vote not once, but twice. They can be on the electoral register at their parental home and on the electoral register in their student location. Of course, anyone eligible to vote can and should. But twice? This has been going on for years. In fact I found myself on the Electoral register both at home and when I was located away on a degree secondment and that was 25 years ago. But there is a point. Students are council tax exempt and should only be allowed to vote once and in the location they reside in full time. But not twice in two locations. It does, where there is a very dense population of students have the ability to distort a result against the votes of full time council tax paying residents and thus affect local issues that effect people who reside permanently in a location. So in my view, of course everyone entitled to vote legally should. But those who remain registered at the home they may return to ie Parental home should only be registered for one place. And vote once. The fact that some political parties and groups spend more time and effort lobbying students rather than local permanent residents and businesses indicates to me that they know this and are taking advantage of the loophole rather than doing the honest thing and reforming it. |