(no subject)
I was surprised to see police officers armed with machine guns outside my polling station this morning. Article from the Beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4970794.stm
"Police officers are being deployed at several inner-city polling stations to protect against vote-rigging."
Should the police be involved in this way? Is this dodgy or is it just me? It's a bit intimidating walking past a bloke with a machine gun to get into my polling station... should civil servants be overseeing elections of their bosses in this way? Who else could/should do it?
At least they weren't inside the polling station - when that happens we are living in a police state.
ps: it didn't change my vote... just a shame that out of the ~20 candidates there was only one that I wanted to vote for.
pps: forgot to mention - recently been listening to Soma FM - good music!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4970794.stm
"Police officers are being deployed at several inner-city polling stations to protect against vote-rigging."
Should the police be involved in this way? Is this dodgy or is it just me? It's a bit intimidating walking past a bloke with a machine gun to get into my polling station... should civil servants be overseeing elections of their bosses in this way? Who else could/should do it?
At least they weren't inside the polling station - when that happens we are living in a police state.
ps: it didn't change my vote... just a shame that out of the ~20 candidates there was only one that I wanted to vote for.
pps: forgot to mention - recently been listening to Soma FM - good music!