My vote is with weekend elections

COUNTLESS schools were closed on Thursday to be used as polling stations for local elections. Children lost a day’s education and many working parents had to find extra childcare. This will happen on a greater scale on June 8. A solution would be to change the day we vote. It has traditionally been Thursday — to avoid Friday (when workers would go to the pub after pay day, and were thus vulnerable to pressure from Tory brewing interests) and Sunday (with the risk of influence by Liberal churchmen). Please, let’s move voting to the weekend.