The delicious irony.

What a (insert your own insult here).
All well and good being able to have postal voting to avoid this silliness - if the necessary paperwork is posted to voters on time, which has not been the case in some areas.

I'm sure Boris enjoyed the publicity.

Oh just an augmented photo opportunity. Anything for a spot of publicity. Inveterate liar. I just feel sorry for those who believed him. Only now we are all of us paying the price. Shame eh!

Marydoll

It certainly is delicious!

Don't they know who he is? 🤣

Does he know who he is?

He returned later. I’m sure it was a publicity stunt

Cossy

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!

Idiot!!! He's doing it to show his bumbling but loveable old fool persona and hopefully win his way back to our hearts. I wish he'd eaten his ID too, but as Calliestimon above says, it's way too much to expect him to keep to his word.

I've just been working as a Poll Clerk and nobody forgot their ID. Not a single person.

Sad that it has become necessary to show ID in order to vote

Apparently…….

Does it matter?
Apple he went back later with ID.
Is it really newsworthy?

I think he did it for attention. He did come back later with ID.

Perhaps the Buffoon should be microchipped.

Poppyred

I’m sure he’s not bothered….

I think he knew what he was doing.

😯

This?
From yesterday. 🤣

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

HA HA HA! That's definitely delicious!

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

I wouldn’t have bothered to come back.

Very true cossy