What someone tells their husband wife or employer about how they are going to vote for is one thing. But once inside the polling booth thye don't have to stick to it.

And I'm pretty sure that couples squeezing into the polling booth together is against the rules, even if they are only voting, ubless there are special circumstances. If it happens as a matter of course, it means the people in charge of the polling station are failing to carry out their job.

This seems a remarkably silly bit of constitutional jiggery-pokery. There is no reason to believe that the reason people are failing to vote is because it is suddenly much harder for them to get along to a polling station than it used to be.

Just think how everyone in England laughed about that ridiculous business in Florida, when they couldn't even run a straightforward fair election. This one is going to make Florida look competent at running elections.

If the Tories had pulled this rabbit out of a hat you can guarantee Labour would be pledged to reverse it, and getting votes on the strength of that. (Of course that doesn't mean they necessarily would when it came to the point - but that's New Labour for you...)