To ask if you will actually vote?

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Not asking who you're voting for, but are you actually going to make the effort of voting (by going to the polling station on the day or postal vote)?

Am on the app so voting options don't seem to be available.

I think legal obligation is getting too much like Russia or Iran or something. I don't agree with that. But it annoys me when people just can't be arsed, and then moan about the government.

If we could arrange for taxis for the less abled, I'd be all for that!

Absolutely. I’m in a very safe seat for the party I will vote for. My vote is unlikely to make any difference to the candidate winning. But I will still vote.

Yes, I am. But I'm disappointed no-one around me is, I love walking down chattering and the atmosphere is great!

Seriously anyone in politics with a shred of integrity has been cast aside. Fuck them all.

The whole emotive you are shitting on suffragettes thing is also pathetic.

That's just stupid. There will always be good and bad. And the middle. And we don't have the worst of them ATM. It's a game, they're self serving, but not entirely so. And I'm a leftie!

@brunettemic what do you think making it a legal obligation would achieve?

IF people are so disinterested (or disenchanted) what is the point in making them vote? You'll only end up with a 'X' in random boxes. How does that help anything?

It certainly wouldn't help to make them see how wrong they're getting it!

Yes. I've voted in every election - national, general, council etc - that I've been eligible for ever since I turned 18 in 1997.

I've spoiled my paper a couple of times, but I've always turned up, apart from the two occasions I knewI was going to be away and registered a postal vote in advance.

I will go the the effort of going to thr polling station, getting the ballot paper and spoiling it.
I am not apathetic - I want a democratic voting system, and FTTP is far from that.
In a constituency with a 70% + majority, voting tactically would have no impact - and I am a member of the party holding the seat - but my vote, like so many others, is meaningless.

No, I wont for the first time. Not because I cant be bothered, because I feel that one can save this country, no party can undo the damage they have done. I am not British but have the right to vote and always have done so since arrived in this country. My experience here is that the government has fucked up every opportunity when they could have made a better decision. The living stand has gone down hill. Roads are full of potholes, schools have no money, incredibly hard to see a doctor or get treatment even though we pay so much taxes. Honestly I have lost hope. We will stay until kids are a bit older then leave the uk for good.

Definitely. I've voted in every local, general, MEP, police commissioner etc that I have been eligible to vote in since I turned 18.
I vividly remember DS being upset he couldn't come to the polling station aged about 7, as I'd been on the way home from the school run and his dad had been on the way to work. He really wanted to see what voting was all about.

Yes, I always vote even in local elections. Women died so women today could vote.

Yes

though I'm still holding out for either a reform or independent candidate I can vote for. 80% blue vote here, so it won't change the outcome, but hopefully it'll be a tiny assistance in making them see they're losing support,

Labour. No way. I couldn't vote for the local candidate & wouldn't like to be even microscopically responsible for starmer becoming PM.

How is it stupid? Wheres the good? They treat it like a game, but it isn't, peoples lives are on the line.

What are Labour going to do differently? Every single time I have heard Starmer, he has said that Conservatives bad, will you change that policy? No.

It suits the 2 main organised crime groups parties that 34% of the electorate don't vote, and FPTP suits them even more. They don't care about the stay at homers' "message". One of the 2 is likely to win. Whoever gets in will ignore you even harder than they are doing now.

So if none of the others appeal, vote for who you dislike the least, vote to split, weaken and destroy safe seats and huge majorities, create a hung parliament, and force new alliances and coalitions that require them all to address issues and policies, not engage in endless idiotic tv personality tests. Show through your vote what you think of our 19th-century electoral system and comedy-show parliament.

Or let 14 million people vote in 4 more years of same-old same-old.

It's an illusion of choice. Fuck em.

Yes,I will definitely be voting.
I've applied for a postal vote as we won't be in our home city on polling day.

I frequently say fuck em, pixiesgirl, but it costs me nothing to send them a big X-shaped fuck off, as well.

Probably not.

Which is my democratic right.

I'll be voting, women have died so that I can vote. A vote is not available to everyone in the world.

Yes

Of fucking course I will

Yes, 100%. Can't wait to send the message..

You can apply for a postal or proxy vote. If you are disabled, you have the right to a proxy vote. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-to-vote-by-proxy-due-to-a-disability