After totally ignoring those who pointed out that too few people were registering to vote at the last election after electoral registration rules changed (particularly here in East Devon where our Electoral Officer “lost” around 6,000 voters from the electoral roll) David Cameron is now begging people to register to vote in the EU referendum:

“Twenty-eight million UK households will be targeted this week in a mass campaign to encourage people to vote in the EU referendum, after David Cameron warned of “terrible” economic consequences if the country votes for Brexit.”

http://gu.com/p/4j82v

At the time of the General Election, many political pundits pointed out that those who did not register were thought to be most likely to be Labour supporters and speculated that this was the reason a major campaign had not been organised by the Government.

Now that the EU referendum appears so close, the government has done yet another u-turn and started this drive to urge registration!

Bet they are now rather annoyed that they didn’t give the vote to 16-18 year olds, most of whom are said to favour remaining in the EU. But, at the time, the reason given was that they were not politically sophisticated enough!