If you can't speak English, you shouldn't be voting

 
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Look at this fucking bullshit, fuck you labour.


 
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I don't into politics at all, but shouldn't something like this, which to me seems distorting a message to force votes, be illegal?
Clearly the message here in the other languages doesn't have the part in red translated.

But yeah, if you go to a country and gain citizenship, learning the language should be the basic requirement for voting.


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I think this is aimed at people who's first language isn't English. If you can't read English or speak it fluently but are learning then I don't see the problem. If you can't read or speak it and are living in an English speaking country then you really shouldn't be living there.


 
 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
This can't be an official Labour ad, is it?
Looks like it.


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I think it's more for people who's English isn't perfect, not for those who can't speak it at all.


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Eh, over where I'm living, they have electoral ads in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese. This sort of thing isn't exactly unreal by any means, and I honestly don't see any problem with it. It just makes voting more accessible to non-English speakers.

But the US could be seen as a different case than the UK in the way that the US has no official language.
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No hablo ingles y ni tampoco las lenguas de las negratas de la arena. No puedo leer el anuncio, pero quiero votar. Qué debo hacer?


 
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I don't into politics at all, but shouldn't something like this, which to me seems distorting a message to force votes, be illegal?
you'd also have to want to ban campaign ads and shit

which i'm all for

but this barely qualifies as "distorting a message" because you'd have to be an absolute halfwit to not realize what they're telling you to do (and you're certainly not a halfwit just because you may not be able to read english)


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I don't into politics at all, but shouldn't something like this, which to me seems distorting a message to force votes, be illegal?
Clearly the message here in the other languages doesn't have the part in red translated.

But yeah, if you go to a country and gain citizenship, learning the language should be the basic requirement for voting.
But even if you learn English as a second language, you're far more comfortable in speaking your native language 9 times out of 10. And just because you have to take an English-language test to get a citizenship doesn't mean that you won't forget it after some point of time.

Really, making these things in more than 1 language is a slight inconvenience if even that for the people making it, and an outstanding convenience for non-English speakers.


 
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and an outstanding convenience for non-English speakers.
Thank God for that then, eh. Just what this country needs: more uninformed people voting.

If you need to be told in a foreign language how to vote, how can you possibly have a decent enough grasp on the political landscape to vote in an informed manner? While I'd love to think Labour's just looking out for the people more comfortable in their mother tongue, this is nothing more than a cynical vote grab from a desperate party.


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and an outstanding convenience for non-English speakers.
Thank God for that then, eh. Just what this country needs: more uninformed people voting.

If you need to be told in a foreign language how to vote, how can you possibly have a decent enough grasp on the political landscape to vote in an informed manner? While I'd love to think Labour's just looking out for the people more comfortable in their mother tongue, this is nothing more than a cynical vote grab from a desperate party.
Hm, if this is something that's new (which isn't the case where I'm at), then what you're saying is almost certainly true as the motivating reason for Labour doing this.


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If I'm not here, I'm doing photography. Or I'm asleep. Or in lockdown. One of those three, anyway.

The current titlebar/avatar setup is just normal.
Welsh isn't even on there.

I mean, if you were going to do a different language, might as well be a somewhat local one like Welsh or Scottish Gaelic (albeit barely used).


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Welsh isn't even on there.

I mean, if you were going to do a different language, might as well be a somewhat local one like Welsh or Scottish Gaelic (albeit barely used).
Probably an appeal to the lower-class, and most likely less well-informed voters.


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If I'm not here, I'm doing photography. Or I'm asleep. Or in lockdown. One of those three, anyway.

The current titlebar/avatar setup is just normal.
Welsh isn't even on there.

I mean, if you were going to do a different language, might as well be a somewhat local one like Welsh or Scottish Gaelic (albeit barely used).
Probably an appeal to the lower-class, and most likely less well-informed voters.

My point still stands


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Fucking liberals
>labour
>some of the worst statists in bongistan
>having actual liberal values

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>labour
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Fucking liberals
>labour
>some of the worst statists in bongistan
>having actual liberal values

pls
>taking Midget seriously

Dude, you're the biggest troll of the serious forum
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