How Boris Johnson rigged British politics for the Tories - Johnson’s brief premiership has been a relentless assault on the UK’s freedoms – to organise, to protest, to vote
last week, the last kick of his boot as he walks out of the Downing Street door will be to the balls of the Electoral Commission., the regulator charged with defending the UK’s democratic process – which had a word or two to say about both Johnson’s 2019 election campaign and the pro-Brexit movement in which he played a prominent role – will be told that it should charge fines only as a last resort.
Instead, if a party takes a cricket bat to the laws of democracy , the umpire will now have to politely “request improvements” before taking matters further. Of course, every political party has been on the wrong side of these laws at some point. But, structurally, there is one party that wins by trussing up the regulator – one party that consistently breaks laws and has the cash to pour into elections. You know which one.
Without any real accountability to spending limits, Johnson’s – soon to be Liz Truss’s – party, and the oligarchs for whom it acts, will be able to drown the country in adverts in order to shape the agenda of the next election.
It’s a measure seemingly designed to purge people who move more regularly – usually younger renters – from the electoral roll.in young people registering to vote ahead of the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 and 2019 general elections happened only because of vast efforts by activists. But this tied up progressive campaigners in form-filling and bureaucratic messages, while the right could focus their appeals to older voters on policy.
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