To remind you all to register to vote...

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If you haven't already?

Also, encourage your older teenagers to register for the first time.

Boris has proposed election for December!

Windygate it is if people don,t vote. If you don,t use your voice, ofcourse you won,t get heard. A small party may not get far but the more seats they get the bigger the voice. No vote is wasted.

By all means spoil your ballot. This election is impossible. If you care about women's rights AND want to remain in Europe it's impossible. So write:

Women's rights and EU you bunch of self serving misogynistic wankers!

And go home knowing Emmeline Pankhurst isn't spinning in her grave.

I don't understand not voting. Spoil your ballot if you must but don't give them the gift of apathy.

Don't be just a passive consumer- remind them who they are and why they're there.

I'm a boring old sod who just wants public services to be funded properly.
Books in schools, nurses in hospitals etc. The boring stuff.

That's Labour. It's always been Labour and will be for awhile yet. The rest is window dressing.

There will never be enough books in schools or nurses in hospitals no matter who we vote for.

Well that's a steaming bag of shite.

Things were going quite well up and till recently, crime down, waiting times down, education on the up... then something changes around 2010...

Anyway, I could bore you with data but nobody likes that so I won't.

You're entitled to your opinion.

I always vote

For once I feel I cba

I have lost respect for the vast majority of MP’s what the last few years have shown is that many consider their political career as more important than the values they claim to believe in

I'll vote but I'll be holding my nose while I do it. Not 100% sure for who yet either.
I thought they did report on the number of spoiled ballot papers?

@Cuddling57 I've looked into this a bit further, now you mentioned spoilt ballot papers are reported.

Interestingly, because spoilt ballot papers only represents a tiny proportion of overall votes it rarely makes the headlines. Something like 1% - but the number is skewed because unless the voter makes their intentions clear (by putting a big bold NONE across the candidate list, there is more than 1 way their "non-vote" may be categorised, so it splits the result. For example " voter's intentions unclear " etc.

So, if you want to make your voice really heard loud and clear, we all need to put NONE in big bold Capitals across the ballot paper. If everyone does this, there is only one way they can categorise it, as a protest vote. United we stand, as they say.

If everyone in the country does this, because UK citizens don't have faith that any of the current shower of disingenuous, unprincipled idiots are worthy of leading this country, it would give a very strong message.

Here is the website that gives the guidance.

www.votenone.org.uk/protest_votes_count.html

I'm a staunch voter, so I may take this approach, I haven't decided. But I will cast my vote, I won't break a habit of a lifetime!

Another one here who wont be voting. I normally vote labour but three years on and JC has not satisfied me that labour is a remain party. He has not fought for our place at the EU table to my satisfaction. I feel let down by him. Lib dems after the student fees thing I cannot vote for. Green vote here a completely meaningless vote.

So I think for the first time in my life I will not be voting and I hope they take all pir abandoned votes as a message: we're fed up with British politics

Voting should be compulsory and should be available online.

You know those people who say "what's the point?"

That's me now.

Thanks for the reminder. We’ve moved recently and want to vote for Boris, now we’re in his constituency.
Much appreciated

Surely the voting system in this country should be more about the candidate than the party? If we had a “first past the post” system then I would understand voting for a party or if a particular candidate is new.

Don’t just look at party manifestos. Look at each individual candidate. What have they done in your local area? What is their background? If they are previous MPs what is their voting history? Do you feel that they will support your views despite what their party tells them to do?

Our local MP is leaving conservatives, going independent and being supported by the Lib Dem’s because of what he believes is the best for the country. I believe that stance is important in today’s climate.

I'm undecided whether to write 'non of the above' or hold my nose and tactically vote Labour just to get rid of the tories.

I'm in the same situation, @MuthaFunka61, but I'm in a Tory/Lib marginal, so my tactical vote will be for the LDs, who supported the Tories' austerity regime and so bear part of the responsibility for the dire state of our public services.

And our Tory MP is vile: ERG member, very dodgy on women's issues despite being female, and thick as a whole yard of bricks.

I'll be holding my nose like mad.

You aren't voting for a leader e.g. Corbyn. You're voting for a party.

And Corbyn won't be leader for a whole term, he'll stand down in a couple of years.

There's a huge determination to get a woman leader next time, and Angela Rayner appears to be favourite atm. I'd like Dawn Butler though, I think she's great.

No because there's no point voting in thid safe tory seat were a donkey with a blue rossette would get elected. And who made you the vote monitoring police.

One issue with Brexit is the fact soo many din,t vote.

@june2007 The referendum had one of the highest turnouts in UK history, with 72% (33 million) of the electorate turning out to vote.

And... YABU OP, for the sole reason that there won’t be an election in December. Corbyn won’t allow it.

People died to give you the vote. Sometimes that is to vote for the least worst. You owe it to them to vote and I am disgusted with people who don't.

No one owes anyone anything.

DH always votes Labour but our current Labour MP isn't standing again and DH resents the fact that Labour will just parachute someone in, invariably someone who's got zero experience of the area, and arrogantly expect the people to vote for them.
I normally vote Conservative and probably will again - as they're the only party apart from BXP who are going to deliver Brexit.

^If you don't use your voice you won't get heard.
^
That's what I always believed but, sadly, I don't anymore.

voting can fuck right off, i couldn't give a toss now about any of it anymore i don't give into emotional blackmail either, my ancestry research shows that 18 of my ancestors died in WW1 some of them would turn in their graves, if they had them, at the stupid antics of politics today,

No one owes anyone anything
The people who fought for your rights deserve your respect. Read social and political history, because ordinary people who could be arsed fought to get you the freedoms you have today.
If you think the elite would have released people from servitude from the goodness of their hearts or given ordinary people the vote, you haven't learned much.

The people who fought for your rights deserve your respect.

Quite. The pp’s attitude makes you wonder why they bothered!

Spoil your ballot paper if they are all too awful to vote for, or else think of it as a tactical vote purely to punish your current MP for being crap, rather than a positive vote for the future. That’s what I did last time.

There is so much hubris in this election - i would vote against Johnson even if I didn’t hate him, just for the satisfaction of seeing his face when he is returned in another minority government (unlikely, I know, but I expect there are a lot of people who feel like me).