The amount of reports of queues at polling stations and people abandoning them in order to go to work just emphasises how much election day outta be a national holiday or on a weekend.
The Electoral Commission (or really, whoever is responsible for political advertising) should really extend the ban on attack ads to online sources. Shit like this should be as unacceptable on Facebook and YouTube as it is on ITV and Channel 4.
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The Electoral Commission (or really, whoever is responsible for political advertising) should really extend the ban on attack ads to online sources. Shit like this should be as unacceptable on Facebook and YouTube as it is on ITV and Channel 4.
https://metro.co.uk/2017/06/10/tories-spent-1200000-on-negative-anti-jeremy-corbyn-social-media-adverts-6699774/