New voter I.D. rules: what you need to know! [Satire & Comedy]

New rules are coming in for Photo I.D. at elections in the UK. Do you know what's going on?
If you need to get a voter ID you can apply here: www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id...
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[@JK-pe6ft]

"We want everybody to have the right to vote, but we really only want the right to vote." That is the most succinct and accurate description of the voter ID rules I have ever heard.

[@vivienclogger]

Do you think Matt will notice if I steal this?* *I'm stealing this.

[@davidbuchan2909]

It is so sinister. It's like the oath you would swear to join the Conservative party.

[@nosuchthingasshould4175]

@@davidbuchan2909it’s not sinister, it’s dexter

[@lowerorchard]

@@davidbuchan2909 which is also accepted as proof of identity for voting purposes 😂

[@finnkdy]

@@davidbuchan2909 it's 1984 - vivant !

[@anglonorse2943]

Voter ID. A solution to a non-existent problem

[@ai-d2121]

Sounds like populism…

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

To be fair there are lots of claims of voter fraud in a select few areas often run by coucillors from the Labour Party, specifically in places like Tower Hamlets, East London* but otherwise yes it is a mostly non-existant problem. *Every time a claim of voter fraud is made, the Electoral Commission investigates and then ends up doing absolutely nothing...

[@gillb9222]

And an added issue to exacerbate the issue of low voter turnout. Nice job guys...as usual

[@MPostma72]

It's just a solution to a different problem than advertised, namely the problem that conservatives are not appealing to voters.

[@originalbadboy32]

Certainly isnt a non existent problem. If the Tories don't implement it how else are they going to stop the Tofu eating wokeraty from voting?

[@Tulkash01]

"We want everybody to have the right to vote... but we really only want the RIGHT to vote". Perfect summary!

[@rusty911s2]

Interesting fact: I wrote to Huw Merriman, my local MP and as it happens a Tory. I asked 1) How many national and local election results had been swung as a result of electoral fraud?, 2) What % of all votes cast are thought to be fraudulent? and c) Can he be 100% sure the ID requirements are equal to all voting groups? He replied within a day (credit where due and all that), ignored point three, said he'd have to ask colleagues about points 1&2 and would get back to me. He hasn't. He did manage to vote for these reforms however, seemingly happy to change decades old voting requirements without having any facts to hand.

[@Kontrolleuchte]

Unbelievable that student id and younger people's railcards are excluded. I thought it was a joke, but looked it up on the government's website. Not there. Incredible.

[@octavia2]

Trouble is, that's not actually satire. It's a word for word demonstration of what our present elected leaders think.

[@Lincoln_Bio]

Matt is my most trusted news source at this point

[@steveholmes381]

Please please please can someone catch a prominent member of the government forgetting their photo ID, and telling the local government employee 'don't you know who I am ?'

[@cpuuk]

Fixing a problem that doesn't exist, typical Government action.

[@garypatterson2857]

You misunderstand - the problem is that voters are turning against them. The solution is to remove their ability to vote.

[@roderickmain9697]

"...we want everybody to have the right to vote, but we really only want the right to vote" - should be a Led By Donkeys poster that one. Sehr gut, Herr Grun.

[@fredcooper6725]

The silly thing is that you will actually be able to have a postal vote without having submit a photo ID to prove who you are.

[@ilianceroni]

Soooo… will the Tories claim vote fraud through postal vote like the republicans did in te US?

[@maureenlancaster1694]

And that’s what I’m going to do. Absolutely crazy

[@RichWoods23]

For now.

[@Relugus]

Isn't that where the real danger of fraud would come from?

[@Vee-jc1qh]

Matt Green is without any doubt, not a fraud. The real deal in every utterance with humour. Cheers.

[@sarkybugger5009]

Postal vote FTW. No ID required. Get your applications in, NOW!

[@ericajohnson3504]

I used to be a Polling Officer for Elections, stopped as I got older finding it too hard to work from 6am to 11pm or even later, most of that time not even being allowed a comfort break. Anyway what I was going to say was there are so many checks and balances in the current system voter fraud is very rare.

[@TalesOfWar]

There was one conviction for it in the last election, of someone who used their mothers polling card because they lost theirs. Hardly criminal mastermind, election swinging level rigging as is implied.

[@moorecomedy]

Brilliant again Matt! "We really only want the rights to vote" 😂

[@adrianrutterford762]

Wow! Mr Green you are certainly producing videos at a massive rate. Good stuff as ever.

[@shirleycarter2231]

It’s getting more painful......... thanks Matt ❤

[@parametr]

Wow, I actually didn't know. I had to check. It's true! Matt entertains, Matt educates.

[@dominicg11]

I only found out it was now law (I knew it had been talked about) a couple of weeks ago when I saw an electoral commission advert/poster on the back of a bus. I had to look it up when I got home. As is typical with this government they can can sneak through the really important stuff like voter suppression (a solution to a non existant problem) and bankers' bonuses but can't deal with the crises in our public services.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@dominicg11 They ARE the crisis in our public services.

[@fannysquelch]

Need to let people know that if they have no photo I D they can vote by post .

[@toadmeister1964]

Spot on yet again Matt! I applied for my voter ID card yesterday, my council gave me the opportunity to give feedback about their service, room for 2500 characters of feedback. I gave them about 2450 characters of feedback, not about their service 'cos they do OK in trying circumstances, but about the fascist, anti-democratic voter suppression tactics of the Tory scum currently ruining our country! Very cathartic I must say.

[@ruthguthrie1099]

❤️

[@polliebain7450]

Lordy - that was a risk. They know where you live...😏

[@marksimons8861]

So unfair. It isn't a Tory government, it's a bunch of UKIPers pretending to be Tories. Patriotically saving us from the real thing, I suppose.

[@toadmeister1964]

Update: Recieved voter ID in the post today. Most impressed with my local authority voting thingy department! Go Babergh District Council!

[@hugebartlett1884]

Anybody who read that will need compassionate leave (paid) for an extended time(one year?) followed by counselling. And increased salary in compensation for having been exposed to improper opinions. Police will be called in to investigate,with intention to correct public attitudes towards those in authority. Arrests are anticipated across the town and surrounding area. All correspondence with the Council henceforth terminated for the protection of members of the Council,who are not required to know the truth about anything,or even care very much.

[@mityaboy4639]

oh god :) honest government ads come to mind :) well done well done and no, i did not know before your video

[@liamfriel8749]

Nothing could sum up this change in the law of voting more succinctly! Quite brilliant once more! 👍😁 2:13

[@lizparker8431]

Ask for a postal vote, take it to the polling station on polling day.

[@maureenlancaster1694]

Or just post it back and save the time

[@graemehancocks4171]

Brilliant stuff Matt in highlighting this Voter Suppression Legislation.

[@SimonOliverGLD]

also postal votes don't need any form of ID - and are generally used by the older demographic

[@cantin8697]

Oh boy, I love when voting is made way easier for the rich and elderly than for the poor and young! What sort of working-class person is going to have a passport?! My family has never had the money to travel outside the UK! And what sort of person below the age of 25 is going to have a driving license? Or people with disabilities? Or people who simply don't want a car because ✨f- cars, they're _incredibly unsafe_ for everyone✨? And yeah -- makes no sense how college ID not accepted, for literally no reason!

[@TalesOfWar]

It's simple. The people more likely to have ID will be more likely to vote Tory, those more less likely to have ID are less likely to vote Tory. This is called voter suppression and disenfranchisement. It's fucking disgusting. They pull this kind of shit in banana republics and fascist dictatorships. Not that this is much of a shock, the current lot in power are capital F Fascists.

[@stevenpremmel4116]

The funny thing is that in about six months, voter fraud will actually be easier to commit when a new provision comes in.

[@stevenpremmel4116]

@film fan Why would I tell you how to commit voter fraud?

[@klmn2000]

Matt is amazing. Keeps spitting these videos out at an incredible frequency and seems to sense and frame the public zeitgeist each time. Each video is a mini masterpiece in their own RIGHT ;)

[@rapturas]

I once had to get a written statement to confirm who I was, from an authoritative figure, to submit to the Open University (think it was for a loan for their courses). Of course I went to my local police station with photo ID in hand (passport, driver's licence and some utility bills). The police officer refused to sign anything because "ID is so easily faked that the police cannot accept any ID as real". That was shocking to me!

[@jamesboyle6134]

Sounds like it was near the end of their shift and they couldn't be arsed tbh...

[@Alan-xxxxxx]

@@jamesboyle6134 properly too busy out r@ping

[@ExplodingPiggy]

That's clearly bullshit 😂

[@urbanimage]

@@ExplodingPiggy Oddly enough, I had very much the same conversation with the duty desk sergeant at Paddington Green police station about thirty years ago - at least they are consistent.

[@notreallyhere67]

Isn't it the police's job to, I don't know, to check the validity of an ID or something? Don't they get training for this sort of thing?

[@zetectic7968]

Excellent, Matt! I'd love to turn up to the polling station with a copy of the driver's license you displayed 🤣

[@ardrek_]

Absolutely terrifying!!!

[@iamsmartacus]

It's a good thing everyone has a British driving license, just like famous British citizen Will Smith!

[@vivienclogger]

I work in a place where we occasionally have to check photo ID, which usually takes the form of a driving licence. The really odd thing is that when young people get their licence for the first time, it's often taken from a passport photo - which may be from several years ago. As a result, the photo on the licence may be that of a 13 year old child. I guarantee that this election will be full of reports of young folks being astonished/outraged and refused the chance to vote because they no longer look like their 13 year old self. Oh, and the addresses are occasionally out of date as well - which will be another issue that people won't get around to updating until it is too late. I'm just glad that I'm not a polling election clerk. Their job is suddenly going to become a lot more confrontational.

[@endintiers]

In Victoria at least Driver's License pictures are taken by the licensing authority at the time they are granted. But in the UK, I can just submit a photo of Fozzie the bear?? seems nuts to me.

[@HamnaTabuu]

Many places simply list "driving licence" as a form of ID. Then refuse mine for to lack of photo. Fun ensures as they try to h get out of their mistaken assumptions ALL "driving licences" are "photo driving licences"

[@shelbynamels973]

@@HamnaTabuu just where do you live to have a driver's license without a your photo??

[@HamnaTabuu]

@@shelbynamels973 UK. Same address for a long time, so it's still valid.

[@Mudge07]

Matt, more topical than a nutty bar with whole hazlenuts. (What you mean they don't sell them any more?) Another transatlantic mirror reflecting the threat from 'others'; who just don't have the bolt-down security of a well-paid job in the shires.

[@steves7013]

Everybody the right to vote but only the Right to vote! The best line ! Should be adopted by all opposition parties! Well done again Matt

[@chrisstewart7420]

They just keep coming, you certainly give value Matt as one of the funniest guys in the UK today ❤️ 😆

[@zora_noamflannery2548]

- Hear, hear.

[@retro61]

"millions to FIX this". Never a truer word spoken

[@yippee8570]

I tried to apply for my disabled adult son's first passport last summer. The passport office messed it up so badly that I ended up writing a complaint about the lack of response to my complaint. It's been eight months since I first started the application process and still nothing. Absolutely no provision for the inadequacy of the current system

[@obtuse1291]

You don't expect to get a vote in tory england so easily do you?

[@yippee8570]

@@obtuse1291 roll on the next election

[@TigerP1]

skillfully stradling the fine line between reality and the absurd and not doing the splits. Well done.

[@markbrown3908]

Getting better every time. You deserve many more viewers.

[@anthonymcloughlin2634]

😂😂😂voucher from SAGA had me😅😅

[@brightondude9327]

I wonder if Irish passports will count as photo ID? So many people are getting them for some reason, I can't imagine why. Lots of people don't have photo IDs. Northern Irish people like my self often don't have a photo on their driving licence because they did not include this for many years in NI. So, to vote in England those born in NI will possibly have to fork out for a useless British passport when they already have an Irish passport. Great video, thank you!

[@johnanthony6123]

Satire of the highest order Matthew. 👏🏻👏🏻

[@RC-cy3uo]

How to slowly leave our freedom by cowardice : End of slavery, equality, democracy, rights... All this progress was earn by fighting. But now we have quite many rights and liberty they gently reverse the steam to strip us back to square one ! Hopefully there is artist like you to unveil their program of decay. Keep on !

[@soylentgreen326]

Matt your a hammer❤ Nailed it again 🎉

[@Demun1649]

How do I get photo ID through to my local Electoral Office? I ain't gonna bother to do that, if they want my picture I'll let them come round and take it. Good one Matt. You just seem to be growing in wit, sarcasm and intelligence at a phenomenal rate. Good on Yer.

[@stevenpremmel4116]

Your local office couldn't give a shit if you have it or not, and they won't chase you to get it done.

[@stevenpremmel4116]

@No60508 By who, the local government? The councils don't want voter ID in the first place and unless it's legislated they won't go the extra mile without direct funding. I agree though, the whole scheme is fucking fascist though.

[@TalesOfWar]

You're "I ain't gonna bother to do that" response is their whole plan. That's the entire point of this stupid law, to make people jump through hoops (even if they're tiny, easy to jump through hoops) and not bother, because they know the people who don't have ID are far more likely to NOT vote Tory. The simple fact you can use an over 60's Oyster Card but not an 18+ one despite them having a photo of you on them and other than the bit saying what age group its for being identical is an absolute joke.

[@stevenpremmel4116]

@@TalesOfWar Yes, that was my point.

[@Demun1649]

@@TalesOfWar I don't have an Oyster card. I am disabled and cannot walk far enough to use public transport, even if it was even barely accessible. Regarding protests against the anti-democratic actions of the current bandit party in power. I am reminded of the suicides during the Vietnam War. We had a 17-year-old girl set fire to herself in our local Gardens, years later the depression in the path is still there. But rather than set fire to ourselves, we set fire to the politicians. Everyone knows how to make a Molotov cocktail. Don't they?

[@commgen]

"Making the right decisions for you" may or may not include the wrong decisions, the right decisions for me (Tories), and / or the "Right" decisions for a grand t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶i̶t̶a̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶au̶t̶h̶o̶r̶i̶t̶y ... Tory Utopia! All Hail the Grand Brexit!

[@rosemarystewart7405]

One of your best Matt . Sounds true. Very convincing. 🤣🤣

[@dfishpool7052]

Priceless Matt - thanks. I think that if you have a tory party membership card, that''ll do nicely at the polling station, plus the card would also get you an nice juicy very profitable PPE contract when the pandemic re-appears in October. If you're a Russian oligarch, you'll be waived through without the need for ID if you made donation to the tory party within the last ten years.

[@philipc4272]

Feels like this is channelling "thejuicemedia": I approve!

[@martincopeland8153]

Is a Tory Party Membership Card OK? (Silly question, they get the bonus and pick the PM every few weeks/months/years as well.)

[@cpuuk]

The form will be pre-filled with the correct ticks, to save them the effort.

[@martincopeland8153]

@@cpuuk could you also arrange for the ballot box to be sent round? One really doesn’t want to have to mix with the lower orders, why some might be voting for Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Leader. 😱

[@danoconnell1100]

😂🤣😂🤣 thanks for that Matt, I feel so much better now 😂😂😂😂👍

[@Loneman_OG]

This is absolutely bang on the nose! 🎯👍

[@averycockburn31]

"Carry on enjoying or enduring your lives" - why do the bleakest parts make me laugh loudest?🤔

[@pierremartini2229]

Chillingly excellent.

[@philipprudhomme6967]

At last, a public information film worth watching! By the way if the document is out of date it won't be acceptable.

[@ExplodingPiggy]

I got sent a letter from the council explaining this and listing what id I could use 🤷‍♂️

[@obtuse1291]

I haven't at this point in time. Mind you, we have a tory council so it might not be accidental.

[@tonguelessghostofsin]

Sums it all up nicely...and hilariously!

[@nicindiff]

They should use this as the public service announcement for voter ID. 👀

[@marie-thereseocarroll8429]

Just keeps getting better and better!

[@AndreSomers]

Nice one with the driver license showing an EU logo 😂

[@zetectic7968]

Didn't you notice that the photo was a famous person 😁

[@johnhartlepool2349]

What a brilliant take down of this uttershameful attempt at vote rigging. As usual funny as few but with catchphrases spin doctors would jealous off. Top man Matt. Get the Tories out keep the bastards out.

[@red.aries1444]

Let's look at this: All members of the Europaen Union have some form of national identity card, which can also be used instead of a passport inside the European Economic Area. Only the UK never had this, while they were a member of the EU. Labour wanted to introduce an identity card, but this was scrapped by the Tory gouverment. Now after, leaving the EU, having so much more national sovereignty, the Tory gouverment introduces now an indentity card through voting rights, as a back door? That's really taking back control...

[@villageblunder4787]

Brilliant. Please keep this up. Please.

[@garethgriffiths1674]

Me turning up on election day with my passport that ran out last year: "Yeah, I mean, I know it's expired, but it's still me in the picture, right? Surely that's adequate ID?"

[@kityhawk2000]

I wouldn't risk it. They'll be looking for any excuse to disenfranchise people

[@maureenlancaster1694]

Use a postal vote. No ID needed. Crazy

[@mikeriley6073]

Great public information video!

[@bluntlaser]

Excellent as always!

[@archive3339]

I didnt even know this was a thing until this video ffs

[@andunabu3238]

What oh! Perfect old chap! Question. If I turn up at the polling station in my Range Rover and green wellies I assume that will be fine! Yes?

[@kateausten1389]

Thank you and lol. I did NOT know that I would need photo ID to vote! 😲

[@mauranolan843]

Matt I wish you weren’t always spot on about crooked politicians and there games but your still very funny 😅😂

[@annearmstrong7493]

You had me in fits at Twit tok xx

[@deirdredowling2251]

Excellent and also scary!

[@katherinehickey6915]

Right on

[@DrRusty5]

You can apply online for a "voter authority certificate", which seems to just require basic info and a photograph. They might as well send all registered voters proof of ID at this rate.

[@LightsOnTrees]

... stranger than fiction.

[@Anmeteor9663]

Stopped voting decades ago when I realised what a total scam it is. Spent my time productively working for a social revolution ever since. Works out about the same in my wasted time but at least I feel like I am doing something constructive for the common good. I have ID but would refuse to show it on principal 😂

[@Sammy-vb8lv]

Thank you for being a source of conservative bullsh*t that I can actually stomach to watch

[@amayastrata4629]

Don’t forget that people who use postal votes need to refresh ID every 3 years.

[@dfishpool7052]

Thanks!

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

That was a chilling note to end on.

[@alexfishwick9342]

Spot on again😂

[@cdean2789]

If you don't photo have a photo ID you can't get the over 60 travel card. Basically if you don't drive or go on holiday you're stuffed.

[@GreenJimll]

Or you do a postal vote.

[@geecars6263]

Nailed it again, Matt 👍

[@timeoftheyear5230]

Brilliant

[@mauranolan843]

Dear Matt, Sorry at 75yrs I haven’t time to worry about full stops commas etc it’s all I can do to comment HaHa Ha .

[@davidholland4713]

Just lovely parody.

[@sulalee7413]

Um I'm now worried that I will need photo id to vote? I don't have a passport and I don't drive. I wasn't even allowed to take a maths exam because my passport had expired. I pointed out that it was still my photo and when I started to raise my voice in a middle aged lady way they backed down. 😐 But now I am really worried that I am meant to have photo ID! I can't even get to a post office with a form, as I say, I don't drive! 😱

[@MattGreenComedy]

I think you can use expired ID to vote (bizarrely!) but if you would like a voter ID you can get that here: www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

[@chrissouthgate4554]

No Taxation without representation; Do you think they remembered that slogan!!

[@mickeythompson9537]

Very important information - this is the biggest, most corrupt thing the Tories have ever done.

[@mradamdavies]

What the actual effing-Tory?!? I love these videos for some light relief, and they always make me laugh... but this one just made me angry. Thanks for the heads up Mat. I need to read the Elections Act 2022 now! ¬_¬

[@Kotch111]

The most disgusting thing about these rules is photo ID is accepted only if you are old. Allowing OAP transportation cards and yet not Student ones is the most obvious stunt ever. Someone should have taken this to the Supreme Court and challenged it.

[@bristolrovers27]

Perfect

[@kungfumonkeycat3562]

Weird. I had to register to vote. Have my licence on hand and go to the closest poll near my home to vote.

[@a3hindawi]

Thanks

[@OzzyMandias]

It's funny 'cause it's true...😮‍💨

[@brackcycle9056]

So who gets to decide if you are the one in the photo ? Will there be an assessor at every polling station? What if that assessor says NO. Or Is this Face Recognition Database by the front door ?

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

I got a leaflet about this with my polling card. {:o:O:}

[@connclissmann6514]

Gerrymandering by segmenting the population.

[@MetalRocksMe.]

Thanks Matt! I have the correct 🆔…have done since I was 18…😏😂