To not vote today?

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Have you voted today and if so who did you vote for?

Someone, one of those candidates, is going to get voted in and take action that will probably influence your life.

No one is going to be perfectly aligned within your opinions. You should choose the person/party that is doing the most of what you want.

If you don’t like what they are doing once they are in - tell them!!

If you don’t vote you are accepting you might get the person LEAST aligned with what you want want.

I am going to vote this afternoon, luckily polling station is right next to dds school. I will vote labour to 1. Make some kind of stand against the Tory majority of this area and 2. The labour candidate is the only one who looks like a human being and not a lizard person.

Why are so many people getting so uppity about saying who they voted for? It’s an anonymous forum - we’ve no idea who you are 😂😂😂

I voted Lib Dem - always vote tactically against the Tories and that’s LD where I live currently 🤷‍♀️

YABU. Spoil your ballot paper if you cannot vote for any candidate.

On the subject of polling Station being quiet.

With a few minutes if digging, I've found that there are 2304 registered voters for my Polling Station. Thats 153per hour, if everyone voted. Or 2.6 per minute. Since I was in there less than a minute, but did see other people outside... I don't find it surprising it was empty. I'm sure more will vote at school pick up and drop off, when ASC finishes, and after work than at 2pm.

Yes i voted. I voted green and labour as usual, although im not impressed with either party tbh. I dont want the wrong lizards to get in.

I was excited to vote for Labour and feel for the first time in a long time that it will make a difference (strong Tory area but hopefully today will being a change). For me it was a positive choice, not just the least worst option.

Can't wait for the GE either, to hopefully send the Conservatives into oblivion for a long time

Yes, I have. Voted for Labour as always.

YANBU. Round here it's just the Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems and Greens who are standing. No other parties or independents. There's no point voting for any of them, they are all appallingly bad in their own way. They're all so dreadful even voting "least worst" isn't an option, I'd have blood on my hands whoever was picked.

Nope I haven’t voted, I have a very different view on the suffragettes than most people on here so their “fight” doesn’t sway my opinion or decision on the the rights/wrongs to vote and this is one I haven’t voted in

Voted Labour for local council and London Assembly but wrote None of the Above on the London Mayoral candidate slip.

I'm assuming she literally put them in the recycling bin!

I will be later on.

The way I see it is, don't vote, don't complain!

Even if it means spoiling your paper (which I think should be a candidate, that if 'spoils' win, no one else does), until a genuine outright winner can be found.

I have a very different view on the suffragettes than most people on here

Wow.

Why wow? Making bombs in your kitchen and throwing them through windows of politicians houses who subsequently had wives and children in those homes isn’t acceptable, there is a better way to get your point across than blowing people up.

Why did you apply for postal votes if you had no intention of voting? Just curious.

If you don’t vote then you’re a Tory by default.

I went and cast my vote. I was the only one there. Spoke to someone who said turn out was very poor.

If you don't vote, you don't have to right to complain. The same withbthise that ruin their ballot. Just why? Vote for the party who resonates with your personal politics if you don't like the candidate.

"If you don't vote, you don't have to right to complain."

Yes you do.

We've had postal votes for years. Sometimes we vote. I voted in 2015 because in the years prior to that, I had written to my local MP (along with hundreds of others) and he came through for us and sorted a serious local issue out fully and permanently. I therefore believed he deserved and earned my vote.

Sorry, but I find that really narrow minded.

London is voting for the Mayor. The Mayor is supposed to do something to help London, but you'll only vote for someone who is Labour...?

The Mayor of London, or any other city for that matter, shouldn't be affiliated to a political party, they should be more independendent in being pro-London/City, not pro-Labour, pro-Tory etc.

And although he's a dead cert, I'd love Sadiq Khan to get booted out!

What do you think you achieve by not voting?

You really are kidding yourself. Do you honestly think that a spoilt ballot paper sends shock waves through any of the parties? Do you honestly think they sit back and wonder who that "politically engaged" person was and maybe have a sleepless night over it.

Any idiot can spoil a ballet paper and could do so for any reason - maybe they were drunk, maybe they couldn't read. It's a non protest with almost comical shades of rebel without a clue.

If you tell me who you voted for and why maybe it will make me vote for them.

The suffragettes didn't 'blow people up'- there is no evidence that a single person was killed as a result of Suffragette action (except, of course, Emily Davison).

Do you feel the same way about Nelson Mandela and the ANC?