To post every day until the next election to remind you to VOTE.

[NorthernLurker]

Seeing as the government appear to have kicked off their campaign I thought now was the time to start nagging talking about voting.

This weekend's talk about pensions shows in a nutshell why we need to vote. The government - any democratic government worldwide - is swayed by the need to please those they think will vote for them. So if you're not getting what you want from this government you need to vote because it is only when everybody like you votes that the wind will change in your governmental favour.

Register to vote, talk to your friends and family about voting, create some momentum and you will see change. The election of 2015 could see the biggest turn out from women under 40 ever. Anything is possible. There's been talk in the past about the 'mumsnet' election - well wouldn't it be great if that was a reality. Not in the sense of posters all voting one way, that's not the point. The point is wouldn't it be great if every user of this board voted? If every user of this board made their voice heard. It can happen.

And I'll be posting every day until it does

Just remembering a time at my local polling station where the doors were forcibly closed on voters queuing the streets. It caused a mini riot and made the news....

I remember that too Maid.

Loads of students didn't get to cast their vote because of it in my general area. That's one way to piss off the future voting public I suppose and no better way of saying "we don't give a shit about you or your vote".

Well clock thank your lucky stars that you are secure enough that things like the bedroom tax or thr benefits cap aren't sufficient to make you vote.

I love you OP

YANBU but then IANBU to hide your thread

rooners

I'm going to check that it is still the case, because during a very brief convo with the nice lady currently working my out of hours phone,she's told me that nowadays you can register anonymously this means a code instead of your name appears on both registers.

This may mean that they have removed the ability to use a different name but I'm not sure (it would be odd because anybody can legally call themselves anything they want providing its not to defraud)

She's also told me that its not being registered more than once that's an offence it's voting more than once apparently some people are allowed to register more than once.

Farrowandbawl Suspect we have lived close to each other at some point....

Oh wow thankyou so much Sock. Don't worry, no huge rush but I would be so thrilled to be able to still vote and not appear on the register under my name.

Thanks x

Either that or it's happened in other places too wouldn't surprise me

Compos, petty (and misguided ) assumptions about personal details aside, I prefer to think of voting (or otherwise) as something that goes beyond self-interest.

maid ofstars Interesting link. But I'm all confused now- apparently I'm only worth about 0.5% of a voter, in a 3-way marginal where the Tory candidate won by sixty seven votes last time.....(although it did say that previous results (Lib Dem, and before that Labour) weren't included as "constituency boundaries had been redrawn"

....I honestly thought I was more important than that

The reason that there is nothing to chose between the policies of the main parties is precisely because they are chasing the votes of the same people - those who vote. Things are never going to change until they have an incentive to listen to all sectors of society.

This ^^. No wonder, especially, that Labour sound so unconvincing and watered down when they are trying to attract the vote of a lot of Daily Mail reading pensioners.

Maid, google "no votes for police commissioner"

YANBU Northern, I had no intention of voting but you've talked me into it. As Churchill said, 'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried'.

Can I just add in response to pp that Labour were not responsible for the sub prime crisis, which was in fact caused by American banks, causing the economy to go tits up. It didn't stop Cameron spending £780,000 refurbishing 10 and 11 Downing Street. Because that was funded by we the tax payer.

I wonder how much the fancy white bow tie and tails I keep seeing Cameron pictured in cost?

Even if you fundamentally disagree with our current system of government (and fwiw it's a long way from my own ideal) do you think not voting will change anything? If say 10% of the votes were for 'none of the above' MPs would be paying a hell of a lot more attention.

Hurray Sparkle that's really good to read.

Rooners - hope you get something sorted. There is info about registering anonymously here and noplacelikehomedorothy this answers your question too. You'll be able to register when you move back in the summer. There will be a deadline for the 2015 election but it will be a lot closer to the election date.

Clip for today This is the value of what we have. Don't walk away from it.

Many thanks for the link, Northern.

Unfortunately it says that I will need a court order or 'attestation from certain persons' in order to do this - I remember now, she tole me on the phone that I'd need some kind of order - and I don't have one.

And to get one would involve pissing off the person in question all over again.

It looks like I'm stuffed.

*told

Is your GP aware of the situation? I wonder if they are a certain person who can attest

It says something about health visitors or social services but they have not been involved.

The GP is not aware of it, no.

Honestly I think for the sake of my paltry vote, I'm not going to go hammer and tongs at trying to get it organised. I don't even want to think about the past really.

YANBU. Well said, OP. You can be sure the least palatable parties will be doing all they can to win seats, while many of those who'd have supported the main parties don't turn up. I'm glad women have the right to vote in this country, and that we have a democracy. Use it or lose it!

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