please empty your brain below
9 - as Boris Johnson is a well known liar who has been sacked for lying twice (google it), it is not unreasonable for anything he says to be assumed to be a lie, until proven otherwise.
Perhaps a message of general support earlier in day for his colleagues facing elections would have better, rather that a tweet - just two hours before the polls closed, that HE had voted.
https://twitter.com/rodgers_scott/status/1124576913861873664
How's that for a prosaic excuse for Boris? He remains a charlatan and a liar though. Just maybe not this time
> I suspect James's tweet is based on mine because he mentions Boris being Mayor of London, and him deleting his tweet after being informed about the lack of elections in the capital.
You might not be the only tweep to know that Mr Johnson was once Mayor, but you do indeed seem to be the only one who had responded at the time that there were no local elections in London.
BBC Radio 4’s programme More or Less has a regular feature that they dub Zombie Statistics – statistics that refuse to die. One such statistic, frequently quoted by Boris, was that London is the sixth largest Francophone city on earth. Later he even upgraded London to fourth largest.
More or Less did their research and found the true ranking for London to be around fortieth – not such a catchy headline. The reason for the large discrepancy is that the French are particular about their city boundaries. There is no Greater Paris, that Boris would presumably count as one, but a number of cities in the Ile-de-France.
Strictly speaking each council has a separate election and it is completely legal for a person with addresses in two or more areas voting on the same day to vote in both.
P.S. There were two council by-elections in London on Thursday, both in Lewisham.
P.P.S. @ErwinH "There is no Greater Paris"
In the last few years the French have introduced metropolitan administration, including the creation of the Métropole du Grand Paris.
It seems a shame, though, that if anyone writes something and thinks better of it, it's not actually possible to delete it or get it back. Once it's out there, that's it, and the whole world can share your indescretion. Maybe the main problem with 'social media' is that so much of what's out there, people didn't really mean to say or have thought better of it.
He did eventually. At the JCB headquarters in Staffordshire, with a giant JCB behind him, for 40 minutes, he lied without stopping.
Sums him up.
Whether you "live" sufficiently in a place to be entitled to vote there, is a matter for the electoral registration officer of the councils involved.
Only in general elections must you vote once throughout the UK. In European parliament elections you may only vote once throughout the EU, even though you might live in two or more EU countries, and actually enforcing this seems to be almost impossible without compulsory ankle tagging.
sometimes we can only get to the truth by making public statements / allegations, and getting enough publicity that the likes of Johnston are forced to respond.
Here in the UK anyone on the register automatically gets the EP vote if they are a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or a Commonwealth country, including Cyprus and Malta. This is because a country's domestic franchise laws take precedent in regards to its own voters.
Citizens of the other 24 EU countries who are on the register automatically get the local government franchise (which also covers the London Mayor & Assembly, Stormont, Holyrood and Cardiff Bay) but they can only exercise their vote for the European Parliament here if they complete and return an additional declaration form (which is incredibly hard to find on the web) stating that they will not be exercising their vote in their country of citizenship (whether by popping back for polling day, using a postal vote or voting at an embassy).
(For those who've seen election registers, this is the difference between a "G" next to a voter's name and a "K".)
This is a system that doesn't work too well because the forms often aren't sent out, aren't explained too well, are very hard to locate independently and don't cope well in a patchwork of election services across countries. But it does in theory allow transfer of one's registration to a single location and provide domestic legal systems with a local offence to prosecute against. The principle is one that could alleviate the panics about dual registration.
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