I and a good number of other type one diabetics ended up in EAST due to the sugar tax.

Honestly I am not against the tax. Just feel the companies should have rebounded a little.

Many T1ds were so used to buying coke etc when they are going low. We got hit hard by how quickly the companies adapted and started only selling the lower sugar versions.

To the extent that the NHS will now RX small buttles of high glucose drinks. (Lemon or Berry flavoured but non fizzy) just to ensure T1ds have an easy source of sugar to prevent unsafe low blood sugar comas.

As I say its something easy to fix now. We all just grab fruit juice. But the change and companies reactions to it. Left many of us waking up in an ambulance on the way to ER.

If they start applying it to all products. And the companies all act the same way. Just reducing sugars without any clear branding.

It will leave us with zero easy high sugar option that can be grabbed easily from any small village shop etc.

Young people can really make a difference in this election.

The difference being a move from tories just losing. To them failing to be the main opposition party.

The current predictions on electoral calculus are 66 seats for the tories. 59 seats for the lib dems.

But there are a predicted 53 seats where lib dems are predicted to land within 10 % of the tories winning.

Young voters are generally under represented in this polling. So if you live in one of those seats. A high agreement to tactical vote among younger voters. And a higher turn out. Could be enough to turn 4 or more seats. Making the lib de,s the official opposition.

And the tories the 3rd party.

Personally I cannot imagine a more effective way to inform the tories they funked up with younger voters.

Sunak started an attackkmon the disabled and the benifits system a few days before announcing the system.

Basically trying to claim they are all scammers.

Talking about ending cash support for some corperatikn run voucher and catalog system. And much more actual bull claims blaming the disabled for being g a burden on the welfare system. Forgetting most actually work already.

Lol. Well ill assure you. This post was not edited their.

This post ;)

Yeah shit happens when trying to type on a tablet. And visually impaired,

So honestly if you fail to understand ask.

Or just keep it to your self. No one needs your opinion is this situation.

Honestly so would I. Shy tories have always been a thing.

But as I say. 10 % swing from current polling in what electoral calculus calls lib medium support seats. There are 53 of these. So 53 seats currently predicted to go tory. That a high turn out of young motivated voters could change the predictions on.

Far from impossible. It just take a normally under represented voting block to agree. Tories need a undeniable message.

Seriosly that would be hilarious. And honestly looking at electoral calculus. Very doable if younger voters make an effort to agree and turn out.

Unfortunately it means voting lib dem in large numbers. As they are the only party predicted to gain seats close to the tories. Also they are where moderate tory voters are likely to go if scared of labours left leaning support.

Atm electoral calculus puts tories at a predicted 66 seats. Take some time to laugh at that one.

Lib dems at 59. So moving 4 or more safe tory seats to lib dem really would do this.

Looking at the electoral calculus predictive models. It would take an average of a 10 % swing in what they call Lib Dem medium strength seats.

Honestly this is very doable if younger anti tory voters turn out in much higher number then normal. And agree tory removal is more important under fptp. Then voting you actual desires for more left of centre options. Those options have low odds of gaining these seats anyway.

Come on guys. Sell how funny having the tories as not only out. But not even in opposition would be to your friends.

I live in a historically tory safe area. Where both boundary changes and polling. Make it a lib dem predicted win. Hell it looks like most of oxfordxhire is predicting lib dem atm. With the City going labour.

Also it would mean an opposition party that trully supports an end to fptp. And has done since the 80s at least. So question time will become a bit more interesting. If actual spending policy becomes little more then minor bickering.

Very much so. Its not like bribery was unexpected from the party. I honestly predicted something more direct. Like a few billion cost of living payment within the first 100 days.

Corruption is def what gained the tories low pole numbers.

But honestly their announcements leading up to and during the election. All are bad but these stand out.

Trying to start a culture war with disabled people.

National service.

Pension promises.

They are so clearly aimed at small groups of traditional tory voters. Rather then mass appeal.

It really is hard to see them as anything but desperate and out of touch.

Ill also add. I lost my cancelled licence within a few years wallets go missing and in my case stolen. Most no longer able to drive have no ability to replace a lost licence.

And the main point I mentioned. Its aqlso about efficency. The same local authority issuing retired bus passes and disabled bus passes are prooving the ID and disability when doing so.

Why the hell would you requiore them to do it a second time just so the folks can vote once their licence is no longer valid. I mean the tories are hardly funding extrastaff for local authorities to handle it.

retirement is 65 to 90 or more. The number of people living past 90 has increased hugly over the last few generations. 100 is still rare but far from unheard of.

So yes a sizable number of retired voters will no longer be safe to drive.

As for you self declare. Yeah that is nopt a good thing. And way less then 100%. For some conditions your doctor is required to notify the DVLA. As are police officers if you are4 stopped and they feel your mental or physical state means you are unsafe to drive.

At that point you are required to get a doctor to confirm your medical condition is not a threat.

And dude sorry to tell you this. When your parents or grandparents get to the age where they are unsafe to drive.

It is your moral and sociatal duty to convince them to declare.

This is why my mother is no longer driving.

(Males in my family have a genetic condition. That means we lose vision in our 40s or before. So my dad and myself were both stopped by the doctor informing us then reporting to the DVLA the condition had gotten that bad. Dad many years before me)

And my parents discouraged my grandad on my mothers side at 75 as parkinsons started to show.

honestly once you reach retirement age their are many many things that can happen. Many you will survive but will leave you unable to respond safely in an accident. And the vast majority of families do encourage them to declare.

Police unfortunatly are far to often only involved in an accident or near accident.

Apparently since 2013. Yes it is. Took a while to find the law. So honestly the gov really did not point it out to folks. The ID stuff overrode this change.

It only applies if a registration officer actually asks you to do so. And that request must be given in writing. So honestly I can't help but wonder why they felt the need to add it.

Wow. Apparently that changed in 2013 as well.

Honestly don't blame folks for not knowing this. With all the voter ID stuff it really was not made clear to the public that a fine was added. Most brits grew up in a system where it was entirly optional.

There really has been no attempt at publishing this change.

It only applies if a registration officer specifically asks you to register. And honestly that has been very rare up to now. Makes me wonder why the tories felt this was needed.