Gone and done it!

<bangs own head on desk>

I have had a postal vote for a lot of years. If I had to go to the polling station I would probably not bother.

As a party activist, I have had a postal vote for years so that I am free to go wherever I am needed most, which may not be my local polling station. Voting papers arrived on Tuesday and were completed and posted within an hour. I still remember a local Council election years ago when our candidate,s wife went into labour (not that Labour!) early on election day and refused to go to hospital until the polls opened and she could vote. Candidate didn't win the election but did finish the day as proud father of a baby girl.

I've had to appoint a proxy this year as I'm working away - I feel a bit sad about that - first GE since I got the vote that I haven't voted in

I mean physically gone to vote of course

Well it's difficult to make a decision because I havn't till the last minute said anything until the last minute except the Greens about the disabled. I was going to vote UKIP bur the guy who is standing as MP is like a statue when on TV and struggles to say anything when you ask questions locally for the borough he answers them not the local guy who delivers the leaflets and looks like a tramp. No way conservative they only realise the North when they want something. Labour over what has happened dug there grave well and truly very,very deep in the council. But the city MP would and has tried her socks off. The local standing MP although been in a long time has done nothing when I have asked over the past. I am afraid it could be the least of the evils. Good thought for the future as it looks as though coalitions may become the norm. People should tick on the voting forms the three policies they have voted for the party. Then when they try to start a a government they are told what must be in the joint policies that the voters went for.
"Can you guess where I am?"

Hello Granny23, haven't seen you for a while, though I can guess what you've been doing and for whom. You and your colleagues must be very busy and not so long since the frenzy of the referendum. As a 'retired' party activist (in England) myself, I know just what it's like and at the moment I am glad to be out of that maelstrom, though when it comes to the night of the count, perhaps I will feel a slight twinge of regret as I drop off to sleep at a civilised hour. I hope you survive the campaign and get the result you are hoping for.

janea I'd vote for Al Murray's FUKP if I lived in Thanet. Take a look at their foreign policy!

Hi Anno - nice to be remembered. I am doing as much as I can at this election because I fear that by the next one I will also be a 'retired' activist due to ever increasing responsibilities as an unelected 'carer'. However with literally 1000s of new enthusiastic if inexperienced activists (200 in our Branch alone) I should be able to take a back seat without feeling guilty.

Exciting times - I doubt if we will know who has 'won' the election on the morning of 8th May. It may well take a week or two before it is clear.

My grandma used to get a lift from one or other of the candidates canvassers, she used to tell them that she`d vote for whoever gave her a lift to the polling station, but whoever it was, she still voted Tory!

I have put my X in the box. I had a postal vote a few years ago when I broke my ankle and had surgery. Nowadays it seems to be more trouble than it is worth to change it. I could drive to the local polling station.

Oh Numberplease, what a naughty granny,Lol.

In the past I have spent a lot of time taking senior citizens to polling stations. Once I manage to have five of them in a VW Beetle. I was never quite certain that they all voted for my candidate.

If they were in Heywood they probably didn`t!