Gone and done it!

If they were in Heywood they probably didn`t!

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.

Oh Numberplease, what a naughty granny,Lol.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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?"

I mean physically gone to vote of course

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

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

<bangs own head on desk>

hmm. Never thought of that Ana! oops

Mine arrived yesterday but I will leave it much closer to the election before I post it.

Perhaps the person you've sent the postal vote to should have asked for it to be sent direct to them, soontobe. They're sent out in plenty of time for most people to submit their vote before the election date.

You bet I have! If ever a vote counted, it does in this election.

Why do they leave it so late to send out postal votes?
I have had to send one to somewhere where it takes days to arrive. By the time they then post it back to where it needs to go, it is all cutting it a bit fine, or may miss altogether.
It isnt as if the authorities dont know it is happening!

Well I hope they'll all vote for Al Murray Pittcity

I wonder if there are any gransnetters in South Thanet?

Our polling station is at the primary school about 50 yards down the road, so very convenient

Our postal vote form came today, will send it off soon, decision made.

I always go to vote and would only use a postal vote if I was unable to get there. I usually take the staff a newspaper and some sweets as I have been poll clerk a couple of times some years ago and it can get boring (small village). Anything can happen between now and May 7th and I may 'float' in a different direction.

We have to open/close the village hall for use as polling station so we're down there anyway. I like closing up at night and seeing all the admin tasks behind the scenes. Two men come for the ballot boxes just after 10 but all the various pieces of paper-voting slips, electoral roll, door signs etc are all signed for, placed in separate plastic bags and sealed. Takes them about half an hour to get sorted out after the doors are locked and the officials are there from 6am. Not much fun sitting on our folding chairs for 16 hours!!