A lot of noise #deniedthevote.

I expect there will be an investigation but in my experience most people who complain are actually at fault.

If you are an EU citizen in the UK and want to vote here not only do you have to register for the vote but you also have to tell your local council that you will not vote in your home country. How many have not bothered to register or not registered correctly?

Every year people would tell me "but I registered last year why am I not on the electoral roll" BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO REGISTER EVERY YEAR ITS NOT A ONE TIME THING.

Or I am registered but just moved home recently "well then go to the polling station of your old home."

Or my favourite involves university students who are supposed to be bright? I registered at my university but the election is in the holidays so I thought I would vote in my home borough "Sorry no" Or vice versa.

If there is a systemic problem it's down to the local council rather than the government. Some councils are more efficient than others.

My gut feel is that when the dust settles individual councils may have screwed up but despite the noise the number of complaints will probably be no worse than at other elections.

One more point

Agreed. I also have a problem with ex pats voting in UK elections. They have left this country so should not have the right to decide what happens here.

One more point

I still pay taxes in the UK, why shouldn’t I have a say in how they’re spent?

Of course which is why I used the term ex pat I don't consider students or soldiers posted abroad as ex pats.

One more point

We are expecting an imminent announcement that Theresa May will step down as Conservative leader on 10 June.

In terms of her successor, what is likely is a fluid situation in terms of the Parliamentary stage of the contest.

I am informed that thus far Jeremy Hunt has 27 MP supporters, Boris Johnson has 19, Dominic Raab has 13, Michael Gove has 12, Sajid Javid has 10 and no-one else is on double figures, at least yet.

But of course there are many more MPs in the Conservative Party and I can only re-iterate that the situation will remain fluid and the final say goes to the party members like myself.

Edited by Willo (24 May 2019 9.17am)

I just get a feeling that the party members are not all quite like you. You are unique, perhaps even special.

Red and Blue Army!

Very kind of you to describe me in such terms but at the end of the day I am a mere midge in the swarm and no threat to MENSA.

Boris Johnson commands a great deal of support amongst party members and even though I have reached the ripe age of 66, many members are somewhat 'North' of this !

Boris Johnson commands far more support amongst the members than he does amongst his fellow MPs but as you asserted, the MPs might well look at the broader picture and decide that his box-office appeal would be an asset against Corbyn at a General Election.

What is a constant in a Conservative leadership contest since the mid-60s is that the favourite doesn't win.

Boris Johnson has that X-Factor and far more electoral appeal than the other likely leadership candidates and this could well concentrate the mind of his fellow MPs and influence their decision.
I would suspect that the last person Labour and Corbyn want to win is Johnson.

I have always been a big Boris fan and wanted him to lead us out of the EU as I think that if he had been PM we would probably be out by now.

However I wonder if his chances may have been spoiled somewhat by his time as Foreign Secretary in which he hardly covered himself in glory