The delicious irony.

Iam64

Really !!
I remembered to take my driving licence but I’ve been voting here so long I was recognised - still asked for Id of course.
I confess to chortling a bit but did Johnson really forget? He’s such a showman

I do feel many people are disenfranchised. Most of them not privileged like Johnson, but too poor to have passport or driving licence.

too poor to have a driving licence or passport
A bus pass is accepted

Sparklefizz

Iam64

Really !!
I remembered to take my driving licence but I’ve been voting here so long I was recognised - still asked for Id of course.
I confess to chortling a bit but did Johnson really forget? He’s such a showman

I do feel many people are disenfranchised. Most of them not privileged like Johnson, but too poor to have passport or driving licence.

too poor to have a driving licence or passport
A bus pass is accepted

Not everyone has a bus pass.

Pathetic publicity seeking, he's not stupid, he absolutely knows what he's doing. Hit the headlines again hasn't he?

Yes funny that isn't it Finney?

Never misses a trick

From "The Spectator" - (which quoted 2004)

"What is it with Boris and rules, eh? Mr S is old enough to recall the long-forgotten days of, um, 2004 when the-then Telegraph columnist fulminated against the iniquity of ID cards:

^If I am ever asked, on the streets of London, or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am… then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it.^"

BJ is the master of hyperbole.

I forgot to post my postal vote and as instructed in the envelope I took it to my local polling station.

I did not need my ID (which I had taken with me) to hand them a sealed envelope. Instead I had to fill in my name address and signature on an A3 sized, multicolour form.

It was very bizarre.

Oreo

Typical Boris isn’t it, you might almost think he did it on purpose 😆

my first thought too..

Hmmm… he is just reminding us that he’s waiting in the wings… heaven forbid he’ll ever make centre stage again.

I read he had an envelope with his address on with him . Does he not have a wallet with his driving credentials in? He probably broadcast to one and all in his booming voice so hardly a disclosure plus always have folk at entrances. As someone else said “once a plonker”.

Callistemon21

Sparklefizz

Iam64

Really !!
I remembered to take my driving licence but I’ve been voting here so long I was recognised - still asked for Id of course.
I confess to chortling a bit but did Johnson really forget? He’s such a showman

I do feel many people are disenfranchised. Most of them not privileged like Johnson, but too poor to have passport or driving licence.

too poor to have a driving licence or passport
A bus pass is accepted

Not everyone has a bus pass.

You don’t have to have a bus pass either.

Anyone without photo I/D can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate, free of charge, from their local authority.

No one is disenfranchised if they really want to be able to vote.

Or get a postal vote.

This made me smile this morning. Honestly what an idiot and to think he was our PM. I wonder if Truss presented a lettuce as ID.

What a complete twit his man is! (Don’t wish to be barred!)

How I wish he had eaten his ID, but then again it would be the first time ever that he kept his word!

Very true cossy

I wouldn’t have bothered to come back.

It got him some publicity I suppose, which I suspect was his intention all along.

HA HA HA! That's definitely delicious!

Army veteran's ID card was refused as identity at a polling station.

twitter.com/AdamDiver2/status/1785942693350088770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1785942693350088770%7Ctwgr%5Ef2fd8d476805a3042c1252ca1128fc072280b106%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.standard.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Felections-voting-local-mayoral-london-military-veterans-photographic-id-card-b1155327.html

This has so got to be sorted out!

I was talking to someone at the polling station, who’d been doing the job for donkeys years, and he said that they hadn’t had a single issue in all the years he’d been doing the job.

We know that there is zero evidence of a wide scale problem, so we must ask ourselves why it was brought in - and we know the answer.

So if it is to be retained I think that all voters should be issued with an ID.

Armed Forces ID cards were on the list, apparently, but not Veterans' cards which even have the Crown stamped over the photo!
An oversight and I think Johnny Mercer has apologised, but you would have thought common sense could have prevailed when even a bus pass or Oyster card is acceptable ID.

Callistemon21

Army veteran's ID card was refused as identity at a polling station.

twitter.com/AdamDiver2/status/1785942693350088770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1785942693350088770%7Ctwgr%5Ef2fd8d476805a3042c1252ca1128fc072280b106%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.standard.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Felections-voting-local-mayoral-london-military-veterans-photographic-id-card-b1155327.html

Johnny Mercer MP has said this will be sorted before the GE, one of the problems being that the Veterans Card is fairly new (January this year I believe) and was not on the list of acceptable forms of ID.

Yes, I know they're new but they've had over 4 months to add it to the list.

Forms of acceptable ID:

a UK or Northern Ireland photocard driving licence (full or provisional)
a driving licence issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands
a UK passport
a passport issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or a Commonwealth country
a PASS card (National Proof of Age Standards Scheme)
a Blue Badge
a biometric residence permit (BRP)
a Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)
a national identity card issued by the EU, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein
a Northern Ireland Electoral Identity Card
a Voter Authority Certificate
an Anonymous Elector’s Document
You can also use one of the following travel passes as photo ID when you vote:

an older person’s bus pass
a disabled person’s bus pass
an Oyster 60+ card
a Freedom Pass
a Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC)
a 60 and Over Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
a Disabled Person’s Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
a Northern Ireland concessionary travel pass

a Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)
The new Veterans' ID card would come under this heading.

It was obviously a jobsworth at the polling station who refused to accept it.

This?
From yesterday. 🤣

😯