Tory admits ‘gerrymandering’ – Guess who Daily Mail focuses voter fraud on?

It seems the Daily Mail have ‘missed’ the big story of the day. Their Brexit loving chum Jacob Rees-Mogg handed them a silver bullet. He admitted gerrymandering.

He told the National Conservatism conference (sounds as sinister as it is) that his party did introduce voter ID an attempt at “gerrymandering” elections.

However, the plan “came back to bite them”, he said, as it was older Tory voters who were put off by the change.

Gerrymandering

He said: We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.”

Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted that the Conservatives introducing voter ID was an attempt at “gerrymandering” elections. #ToryCorruption pic.twitter.com/rgC8OU931w

— Marie-Ann Detests Tories 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@MarieAnnUK) May 16, 2023

Daily Mail gerrymandering

So for the SECOND day running the paper splashed a Labour plot to use EU citizens to rig polls.

Today’s story is an exclusive from Michael Gove who told the paper that the Labour leader urgently needed to answer claims that he wants to undermine Brexit by granting EU citizens the vote.

In a strongly-worded letter, the Cabinet minister challenged Labour’s leader to respond to the charge that the policy would ‘rig’ future elections. 

Gove said Sir Keir was seeking to ‘downgrade the ultimate privilege of British citizenship’ by letting migrants help decide who runs the UK’.

In his letter, printed in the paper, Gove asked: ‘Why do you think it’s right to downgrade the ultimate privilege of British citizenship – the right to vote in a general election?

‘What do you say to those who say that your approach is designed to undermine Brexit – and ‘rig’ the voting system for national elections and referendums?

‘Is it still your view that the ‘age of adulthood in most cases’ is 18, or is this another area where you have changed your approach?’

The Daily Mail splashes for the second day in a row on a non-existent Labour plan to "rig" elections, while ignoring the actual plan to rig elections just publicly admitted to by Jacob Rees-Mogg. https://t.co/Uswrmgkg8N pic.twitter.com/DhHuXmp04X

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) May 16, 2023

Labour Brexit

Speaking on LBC, the opposition leader said: “There’s no plan to reverse Brexit, I don’t know how many times I’ve said there’s no case for going back in.

“We are going to make Brexit work, that’s our absolutely firm position.”

Reactions

1.

The shrill right wing hysteria about vague suggestions to extend the franchise is as telling as their actions to limit it.
Paranoid abusers of power who want to deny democracy to those who are unlikely to vote for them.

— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) May 16, 2023

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More voters is not a problem for democracies. Fewer voters and selecting voters by demographic is. The Tories are doing the latter.

— Caro Lynch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 (@CazDoesPolitics) May 16, 2023

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Just in case anyone has forgotten…https://t.co/i7rEcFWbfA

— DavidKT 🇺🇦 (@DavidKTee) May 16, 2023

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I could have sworn the Cons have been trying to redraw constituency boundaries for years in an attempt to rig elections 🤔

— WonkyMcWonkFace (@wonky_mcwonk) May 16, 2023

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Torys admit election rigging, and the tory
propaganda paper the daily mail blame labour .

— Idwal Clements (@ClementsIdwal) May 16, 2023

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