Dogs not allowed to say which way they'd vote
- Throngsman
- 29 minutes ago
- 2 min read
With the Welsh Sennedd, Scottish Parliament and a myriad number of local elections taking place on May 7th, the question is - which way would dogs vote?
The local and national press search out dogs tied to polling station railings up and down the country on election days, mainly as a ruse to get around the ban on photographing individuals who may or may not be voting. Couple that with the blanket ban on reporting on political parties who may, or may not, be standing in the elections means the papers, TV stations and all other irresponsible sources of fake news are desperate to shoe-horn an image of a polling station in the vague hope they can make a statement that might suggest voting is going well/doing badly/slow for the time of day and vacuous speculation about the potential for their favoured political party winning the elections without ending up in court.Â
Like anyone has to guess which one that is.
However, as the only fake news site prepared to own up to being such a beast, Newsbiscuit has been polling the dogs up until election day to find out how they would vote if they were offered suffrage. As this is unlikely until after World War 3, or June whichever comes first, we believe we're keeping within the law.
One dog, who asked to be called Rover (probably his real name) said he wouldn't vote for any party that would accept his owner as a member. He indicated that any owner who relied on adverts to decide which food to feed his dog isn't responsible enough to choose a political party, let alone pay to join one. Â
Another dog, who claimed to be Trixie-Belle, indicated she would sniff the arses of all the politicians to make her decision. There might be some error in that interpretation, she might have just said all politicians are arses.
We found a dog actually tied to the railings of a polling station and asked if he would prefer to be in there voting, to which he answered 'sure, beats sitting here waiting for my owner to finish off in Wetherspoons'. Talk about ruff.
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