Hi Brydo my friend
Can I please take a (late) opportunity to respond to your detailed, as always, views on a December Election.
The last December held General Election was indeed in 1923, however it was on 6th December and was mostly a dry day, with a turnout of 71%. However the Met Office are predicting a very severe winter this year, which I feel will have an impact on the turnout, as someone who has sat (wheelchair user) outside a polling station for five hours each election in recent years.
Although we have had non summer elections in the past, we have had 71% – 83% turnouts since 1922 but never reached 70% since the the turn of the century, although we had 72% at the Brexit Referendum in 2016.
I honestly don’t think that we would have a problem getting polling stations, as someone who ran a chess club and top chess tournaments for 20 years using council halls, we always had our booked lets cancelled whenever there was an election Local or General, which is the same in schools. Even if they have to bring in mobile police indecent vehicles or national health mobile vehicles, they could run an election, other than the issue of the weather.
As for the many polling station volunteers, I can assure you that will not be a problem as although they are volunteers, they are very well paid volunteers who are only too happy to take a day of work to get a much better day’s pay.
I think the bigger problem with a General Election is that it would only be fought on the issue of Brexit, therefor would it not be better to hold an up to date referendum on Brexit and abide by whatever that vote is, as the politicians are not getting anywhere with the issue.