The reason why you must vote

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).

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

We’ve recently moved flappergirl

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.

that's funny Hetty

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

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.

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.

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.

Yes I just ignore the you must vote stuff, it feels quite unpleasant to me. I have voted but certainly not because of that.

I voted.

My reason for voting is I have a personal innate sense of, that I should. For some reason.

But I am of the opinion if you dont want to vote, dont.
I think we should have free choice, personally.

I have now voted today. Probably for the first time ever, I am not feeling that comfortable about who I voted for.
Maybe I wouldnt have felt comfortable voting for any of the candidates?

I cant blame some for not voting.

We have a Monster Raving Loony Party candidate. He's called Lord Tractor Psychobilly.

There are many countries in the world that don’t have democracy, and the people there would give anything to have a voice in who governs their country.

As I left the polling station this morning, I felt how important our democracy is. Sure, it’s not perfect (what is), but it’s a damn sight better than having no voice at all!

Being told I must vote makes me want to not vote! I don’t need to be told what to do by anyone.

However, I’ve never not voted (except when I’ve been disenfranchised by the system) so I dare say I’ll shuffle down to the polling station later.

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.

I was brought up to very strongly believe that not to vote meant you had no right to grumble! We need civics lessons in schools.
Having said that, until we get FPTP many people find no one to vote for that suits likely to get into power. But tho I support it I wouldn't put it in the immediate to do list - it would be another chaotic period in government when nothing gets done, other plans cant be carried out, as there are several kinds of PR to debate.

Whitewavemark,thankyou for that. Everyone should vote !!!!! Unless they want to be governed by a dictatorship!!

Count Binface's 'manifesto' contained similar sensible proposals, grumppa 🤣🤣🤣

I'm rooting for him to beat Rishi Sunak...

I don't think we have a Monster Raving Loony Party candidate either grumppa which is a shame now I know what's in their manifesto.

Very quiet at my polling station at 1030 this morning - no canvassers, and very few voters. Alas, no candidate for the Monster Raving Loony Party, whose manifesto actually contained concrete, and supportable, proposals: send MPs who misbehave to Rwanda; reduce immigration by putting GP receptionists in charge of border control; and introduce an annual test to ensure that roads are carworthy, rather than vice versa

Redhead56

I vote because women had to fight to give us the right to vote.

References to Labour potentially gaining the biggest majority since the Whig majority after the 1832 Reform Act reminded me that while the act was good in so many respects, it did take away the right to vote for those few women who did have it before 1832.

It was in 1867 that John Stuart Mill introduces his suffrage amendment to the act proposing that women have equal voting rights. It was defeated but that defeat gave energy to a movement that grew and grew.

But it took another 61 years, until 1928, for men to give women equal voting rights.

Never not exercise that right. It has never been more important now that misogynists are gathering under Farage's banner, men who regard women as morons and objects and spongers who should be denied health care.

Redhead56

I vote because women had to fight to give us the right to vote.

Absolutely this! We owe it to them to use our vote now. There are still countries where people would love to have the privilege to be able to vote.

Ps Bluebelle, what does Cedric think?

Perhaps we should have got you to put the parties names in a feeding bowl and get him to pull one out.
The SOS party (Save our Seagulls).

Right, you'll be relieved to know I'm logging off now, going out.

BlueBelle

I ve been and done it 🌞
Just a thought, is a pencil safe to use as a voting tool, cant it be rubbed out if wanted, I did my cross so dark over and over I don’t think they can mine 😂

Be reassured, no-one's going to rub it out 🙂

Have you ever been to a count?

Chocolatelovinggran

Great idea nanna8. Let's buck tradition and have a huge turnout.

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