People too lazy to register being denied the vote? Why, it's simply outrageous!

Telegraph
"All the Government is asking is that citizens go to the trouble of filling in a piece of paper. Is that really too much to ask? A citizen has obligations towards his country, something I would have thought all those citizenship classes would have impressed on people. If he or she cannot even be bothered to carry out such a meagre obligation, should he expect to vote?

Harriet Harman has pointed out that the proposal is "going to push people off the electoral register – deny them their vote, deny them their voice. The numbers are going to be huge.”

But no one is denying anyone’s right to vote – they are only asking the very minimum of civic participation.

Yes, Labour will lose out, but if they rely on people who have no civic sense of responsibility, or who cannot understand English, or who don’t exist, then one has to question their mandate. Besides which, it’s strange that the party of women’s liberation is so keen for heads of households, the vast majority men, to fill in these forms – I wonder why that is?"