Daily Archives: Friday, February 6, 2015

  • Party political hypocrisy

    Yesterday, 5th February, was National Voter Registration Day.

    Many political parties, civil society organisations and others were yesterday encouraging the disenfranchised to register to vote for the forthcoming local council and general elections on 7th May.

    One of those parties campaigning was UKIP, which doubtless was ignorant of the hypocrisy of its message in the tweet shown in the following screenshot.

    image text reads Expats do your bit on May 7th. Register to vote online

    That’s right! A party actively opposing immigration to the UK is actively encouraging UK citizens who’ve become immigrants in other countries to register to vote in elections in the old mother country.

    You couldn’t make it up…