A public service announcement from the Layman remember to Register to vote to receive help?

 Tory Britain

Killing off Democracy!

Will you need help from your MP or Councillor?

Then register to vote!

Are you a renter in trouble with your landlord, about to become homeless, have noisy neighbours, suffering anti-social behaviour or will you simply need an official signature to have your passport renewed etc., then the actions of the Tory Government leading towards the proposed Boundary Commission changes will change who gets that help forever.

In the past, residents or citizens could expect help with their problems by making contact through their MP’s offices. MP’s would then either have it dealt with or guide those in need to their Councillors to help with more localised issues. Everyone mattered as representation was a two way street and good help led towards ensuring or at least expecting that at any next election those who had been helped would ensure their cross went into the right box.

But circumstance has changed previous expectations enormously. Many live in the belief they can hide from society by ignoring democracy, remaining outside the register of electors and let society pass them by. Thats about to change?

Last winter Boris Johnson decided that in order to make his Conservative Party remain in power for evermore, he would agree to reduce the number of MP’s and set the Boundary Commission free from the constraints of Parliament and accept their plan to gift his party 10 additional seats. 

The Boundary Commission immediately decided that their changes would not be based on the number of people who dwell in an area and expect democratic help when they need it, their numbers game for change would only be based on the number of people who are registered to vote, massively changing areas with high levels of deprivation filled with people who feel left behind, large numbers of private landlords, food banks, students and itinerant workers who may have lost all interest in politics.

These changes make those not registered to vote irrelevant to society from a political perspective and lowers the availability for the opposition parties and charities to demonstrate need as now that the process of change has begun through this months consultation on new boundary changes the released figures from this huge alteration to the demographics of a nation will colour investments into social need and shift towards reporting on and policing the gaps in the register and not the people in need who fill those gaps, slashing help for poorer areas nationally.

For those who believe we should have a single party nation, kill off democracy and be run by those who only point towards levelling up and don’t deliver on it then you may have won the day. For everyone else, Register to Vote NOW! 

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote