The reason why you must vote

I've just been to vote. There was a lady, (of a certain age), wearing a blue rosette and asking people for their voting numbers to tick off the list. Some of the rudeness she was receiving was quite honestly disgusting, and we live in a genteel coastal town.
"Why should I tell you?"
"No, none of your business."
As DH and I had the dog with us, and had time to kill swapping him over, we spoke to the lady who told us that ALL the parties could later share in her findings, so it wasn't as though she was trying to influence anyone or find out who they were voting for.

Baggs

I went soon after 7 this morning. Only me in there then though I had seen a couple coming out as I went in.

Usual wait while they searched for my address.
"What road are you on?"
Me: We aren't on a road but we might be listed with xyz.
Cue lots of page-turning.....
Ah! here you are....

Happens every time 😂

Men had to fight for the vote too. Just saying.

Didn’t you take your card with you? It helps the polling clerks so much if you do, even though not necessary.

We were the only voters in the village polling station late morning but the clerks said there had been a good turnout already, better than usual.

My favourite Raving Looney policy is to send all MPs who misbehave to Rwanda. Closely followed by their utterly bonkers plan to reduce hospital waiting lists by using a smaller font. Sadly we don't have one of their candidates here. Their humour is much needed at times like these.

Like fancythat I voted today because I believe I should. It was least bad rather than most good though.

My husband didn't even register to vote which I just think s lazy and ridiculous. I've voted and it was busy at ours. Our little area is weird as a couple of miles in every direction is a different voting borough. My son is going to vote later. He keeps lecturing me on how our vote is not a vote as we can only vote for one or the other, of course he is right. We need better representation really as a general rule

that's funny Hetty

JaneJudge

My husband didn't even register to vote which I just think s lazy and ridiculous. I've voted and it was busy at ours. Our little area is weird as a couple of miles in every direction is a different voting borough. My son is going to vote later. He keeps lecturing me on how our vote is not a vote as we can only vote for one or the other, of course he is right. We need better representation really as a general rule

Do you mean your husband isn't on the Electoral Register Jane? I believe that's illegal except under a few special circumstances.

We’ve recently moved flappergirl

We should all vote, and at the very least in my opinion, if you vote you are entitled to moan about things that need changing. If you didnt vote they you have no right to moan about anything that happens as you abdicated your responsibility. I have lived under Salazar in Portugal and Assad in Syria and whilst especially at the moment I consider the majority of politicians we have around are self seeking , money grabbing untrustworthy people around , but we only have the chance to change them if we vote. I went about 7.15 this morning and then later took two people who had no transport to the polling station. One of them I would guess will not be voting for the person I chose. No matter, we had done what is right and what we should do. That is the best we can manage at the moment

HettyBetty

My favourite Raving Looney policy is to send all MPs who misbehave to Rwanda. Closely followed by their utterly bonkers plan to reduce hospital waiting lists by using a smaller font. Sadly we don't have one of their candidates here. Their humour is much needed at times like these.

Like fancythat I voted today because I believe I should. It was least bad rather than most good though.

Closely followed by their utterly bonkers plan to reduce hospital waiting lists by using a smaller font

That's a much better plan than the one operating here, HettyBetty 😁

Here they don't put patients on the waiting lists, thus making the waiting times look much more reasonable. I thought it was just DH and now me, but have heard of so many others who discovered their names hadn't been put on the list and our GP said she had found that to be the case too.
Ps that's in Wales (Labour).