Court for census boycotter

John Voysey the first Quaker census boycotter summoned to court

by Symon Hill 6th January 2012

An eighty-two-year-old Quaker is ready to go to prison over his boycott of the census. John Voysey, of Ludlow Meeting, has said he will refuse to pay a fine if found guilty. He will face magistrates on 1 February.  A boycott campaign began after the government awarded the contract for running last year’s census in England and Wales to a division of the multinational arms company Lockheed Martin. A similar campaign was launched in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the census was run by arms firm CACI.