To ask if you have voted yet?

[AllaMova]

Today, Wales and Scotland are voting for who will govern their National Parliaments and England are voting in their local elections.

I voted this morning and it was super quick. I was in and out in two minutes.

Have you voted yet?

Yes, just back from voting (London local elections)

Absolutely. I always think of the suffragettes and those who have fought for women's rights.

No elections here. We had them last year and are enjoying the care home and dementia day care centre closures, the maximum council tax rises, and the councillors resigning or being demoted because they didn’t realise being a councillor meant having to eg attend meetings or understand Special Educational Needs.

But you know. Messages were sent.

I will be later. But for the first time in my adult life I'm struggling. Am politically homeless and my choices are tactical voting or spoiling my ballot paper. Neither sit well with me

Doing it in way home. People fought hard for my right to vote so I have to use it. I would be surprised if it changes the outcome in my local council but you never know.

I do too. I actually listened to Sister Suffragette from Mary Poppins on my way to the polling station this morning. 😂

And I always consider that right to be choice, not obligatory.

All these people not voting. You’d all be up in uproar if it was taken away from you 🙄

No, not even to spoil my ballot. I have no interest in doing that.

I LOVE this. It's a great song!

Yes last week. I’m abroad at the moment.

Yes! 💚

I haven't suggested othwerwise.

None in our area but I absolutely would vote if there were. Women died to give others the chance to do so.

I’m exactly the same. I am a life long Labour voter but as a woman I don’t feel my rights are safe with Labour in government. I can’t vote for the Greens because they are batshit, and my local Green Party were actively hostile towards me when I approached them to ask about FWS and the Supreme Court ruling. So who do I vote for.

Vote for the candidate that’s made a longstanding contribution to your community, has been politically engaged in your area, and understands where local government ends and central government starts.

Don’t do what my constituents did last year and protest vote children and used car salesmen in. Your local services will tank and they’ll end up being the butt of a thousand tiktok jokes whenever they’re interviewed by local press and they can’t answer the most basic of questions about local issues.

Yes, ambled down at lunchtime. I'd never not vote.

It’s not going to be taken away as some sort of punishment for not voting though. I would defend my right to choose.

Which people?

That’s what the surfragettes died for. The privilege of disengaging and moaning from the side lines.

No. But there’s another 8 hours to go and I have things to fit in that take priority.

I definitely will vote.

I did, but it took longer than usual because I didn't notice they'd changed the location of the polling station. It had been the portacabin by the primary school for 30 years but it's a nearby church now.

I had to ignore the few issues that really bug me (I'm gender-critical for example, and I don't feel any party comes out well when considering women's rights) so I just had to go with my gut. Plus I am pretty impressed with my local councillor and what he's done so far on local issues. But my council is a shit show at the moment so I can't predict what the verdict will be. I'm in a northern mill town with a high Asian population which Reform are crawling all over and it's scary.

I would never not vote - people died for our right to live in a democracy. I am in Wales so voted for the Senedd, which is the arguably the most significant election here since 1999. I voted 20 minutes ago and have ambled into town for some lunch as I took the day off to be a bit reflective on the future of my country. I just hope the people of Wales do not vote for billionaire-backed populist racists.

Not yet, but I will this evening. I will be voting to keep the current conservative councillor in office as she is really good at prioritising and sorting out local issues.