Are you going to vote in the Euro elections?

[Macaroonmayhem]

I’m working in a polling station and am wondering how busy it will be. Usually it’s the quietest of all the elections (in my little polling place, General/Scottish are the busiest, then local, then Euros). I feel I may need more books and food to keep me entertained this time. It’s a very long day!!!

Do you think the tories will do more or less of that without the extra transparency and oversight of the EU?
Well it isn't stopping them at the moment.

THat is not what I asked

Thanks for the links people.

I think it is imperative that you vote. Always. So many people in the world aren't given that privilege. It is only very recently (in terms of centuries of history) that women have been allowed to vote.

If you really can't bring yourself to vote for any candidate (and I concede I almost always have to vote for "closest fit" a none of them every have the same thought as me on all major issues), then do a spoiled vote. At least show you care.

The whole of our country is about to change in terms of so many important issues - law, security, commerce, finance, science, health research, and so many more - on a really close referendum in which something like 28% of people didn't even bother to offer an opinion!!!
Its not just the suffragettes that must have been turning in their graves but people the world over who have fought for democracy.

If you think the 'constituency' voting system doesn't give you chance to express your voice (in GEs and local elections - Europeans are different) - then campaign to get proportional representation brought in. Don't just 'not bother', please.

NB: for EU elections, you don't vote for individuals, you vote for parties.

The candidates will then get in in the order that they are on their party's list: so if a party wins 2 seats in a (say) 6 seat constituency, the 1st 2 get in, if they just win one seat, just the top name on their list gets in.

There may in a few regions be one or two Independents standing, but they'd have to get a lot of votes to get in under the d'Hondt system.

Thanks, @T1nah. Have signed up!

What did I say? Told you it would be a total waste of fucking time voting in my ward for the local council elections, didn't I? And yes I did vote.

Choice of:
two tories - both pompous late middle-age male and already on council
two labour - both female and not on council
nobody else even bothered fielding a candidate

Both tories got in yet again with two thirds of the vote.

Still an overall tory majority for the council. Again.

potato
Your vote counted in the swing percentages.
And the more people who vote in the "lost causes" the stronger the case for reform of the system
eg a councillor was elected today with 19% of the vote
only by showing up in the stats can you ever be heard
WELL DONE on being there #votedtoo

Yes, always

UKIP supposedly only got all the excessive coverage it got because of the percentage of the vote it was getting - so it does make a difference but that doesn't explain why the BBC gave Farage all the exposure even before they made their EP breakthrough . Similarly, the amount of Party Political Broadcasts parties get is a function of the percentage of the vote that they get, not the number of seats.

www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2016/party-election-broadcast-regulations

www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/99188/pprb-rules-march-2017.pdf