Anyone with over 18s who haven’t voted yet - tell them to get to the polling station now!

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The young are easily dismissed and dissed by political parties because they don’t vote in numbers. They will only be taken seriously if they make their voices heard.

I saw an interview with the tennis player Emma Radanacu earlier and she said she didn’t even know the election was today!

They must go and be heard! If any of my kids were over 18 at home and hadn’t gone yet, I’d go with them because I suspect some youngsters are nervous about a first vote and what to do which is why they don’t go.

Anyway 45 mins to go!

I was a poll clerk today… the overall turnout was high and we had lots of young people vote

All my kids and their mates seem to have done postal voting. It’s interesting that it seems popular among the younger crowd, but I suppose it makes sense in a lot of ways.

our children have been brought up knowing how important it is to vote. Daughter living in Europe arranged her proxy vote, son, who is the more sensible one has decided to visit his girlfriend at the last minute and has missed his vote. We will discuss it with him when he comes home, we are both astonished knowing that he has been brought up aware of politics but at the same time he is in love and that likely feels more important.

Is it that they can't be bothered? Or that they don't see anyone worth voting for?

I wouldn't. His vote is not any of your business!

I actually would think someone like her would vote. If the results went the way I'd hoped, she likely in future would not be eligible to represent our country or even possibly live here.
I guess she was one of those relying on everyone else to vote for her needs.

This is DD's first GE and she completed her postal vote,a week or two ago, along with me and dh. We haven't asked one another who we voted for but have discussed various policies and viewpoints. We deliberately don't ask one another for specifics as we've always taught dd that it's her vote and it shouldn't be influenced by others.

She takes it all quite seriously and I've been impressed by her decision to read the manifesto headlines, seek out information and use comparison sites to make her decisions. She has increasingly encouraged her friends to do the same and I know that all of her local friends have been out to vote, these are all aged 18-24.

None are overly political or even that politically interested the rest of the time tbh, but have taken their first (for most) GE seriously.

I do think it's important that parents talk to, and involved children, about voting from a young age.

We did a mini voting booth experience at school with my year 2 class yesterday. We did talk about political parties and the fact that they make policies, etc but didn't base our voting on people/parties in any way. We just wanted to show the process and how everyone is entitled to their vote and that they should use their vote carefully to indicate what they want. Our 6 and 7 year olds took it very seriously!

Like others we do postal votes, as did dd.
A lot of her friends also did postal votes as they, quite sensibly knowing themselves, knew they'd be more likely to get it sorted and dropped into a local post box than relying on turning up in the day.

We always do postal as it makes sure it's done. We don't have to worry about getting to the right place at the right times on a specific day, when we aren't sure what we will be doing or if they'll be any issues.