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?

err not yet? most of us work a job love.

Yeah at 7.30this morning

Was that a typo? 😂

No vote where I am.

I work for local government and am quite relieved because if there was a vote then I'm pretty sure Reform would win and we've already seen from other Councils in the country how well that has worked...

So at least here things will carry on as normal with an ever decreasing budget, an ever growing demand for services, and ever increasingly resentful public who want to have their cake and eat it but definitely not pay for it.

Err do you all work from 7am ? I also work a job as you put it but not starting for a couple of hours

I have got a years old MRLP poster which I got from somewhere and I put up in my front window for the last general election. There wasn't a candidate round here but I put it up anyway. I miss Lord Sutch.

We had farage in the local pub a few days ago. Also had Conservatives set up a stall in the high st. Of Labour we heard nothing

Yes. I would never not vote.

Elaborate?

@godmum56

Bless his heart, he took his life, didn't he? One of the Local Loonies around my area (Lord Toby Jug) died quite young too. I believe he had problems with alcoholism, though I don't know if that was anything to do with his death.

Just been. I voted Labour because our Councillor works hard and does a good job, and the Greens were only 600 votes behind Labour last time and I want to help keep them out. I have voted Green on the local elections but based on their campaign literature, a vote for the Green Party is a vote for Palestine, not for bins to be emptied and planning applications to be passed or rejected. (Their leaflet talks only of Palestine.) I'm seriously passed off with Labour too, after a lifetime of voting for them. They really don't care about VAWG and Bridget Phillipson's stalling on publishing the EHRC guidance has been the deciding issue for me, even though our newly elected MP is a fine person. Rant! Don't know where that came from.

Yes, I always vote. I'm another who feels politically homeless but I voted tactically against the party which will win but which I strongly want to lose.

I'm in Scotland - so it's not local elections

Yes, we voted before work. Took the dog and got an obligatory picture of him by the polling station sign! It feels fruitless though as I know who will get in and I’m not happy about it.

I voted two weeks ago with a postal vote. I’m not sure how useful it will be as the whole county is being reorganised into different districts and will have an overall Mayor. We were denied a vote last time round due to the reorganisation but I believe it was proven unlawful so here we are.

What is your mental reasoning for having no ID?

I will this evening here in Wales but still undecided and very disillusioned by them all.

Yes because it really isn't long ago that we weren't able to vote .I get really sad when women don't vote ,even if you spoil your paper

Not yet, but I'll vote on the way home from work.

Is there in logic in it being ok to spoil not not ok to not vote?

I found it easy to vote this time.

The current councillors we have are doing a good job and I voted for them for that reason and to prevent Reform from getting in.

Mental reasoning 😂😂

Genuinely can't be arsed - I hate them all.

well my logic is that "Oh can't be bothered because nothing ever changes, what can I do" is very wrong and basically an affront to all the women who fought to achieve something which we can just go and do. I belive that all of us who can vote should do due diligence (I know, snotty phrase) We should look at what the parties and local candidates are saying and promising and evaluate whether we want what they are offering and whether we believe them. Its absolutely reasonable to decide that you don't trust and won't vote for any of them but to avoid it slipping into "Oh I cannot be bothered to go out after the day I have had and really what is the point"....or "I really don't have time today and it won't make any difference anyway", Its important to go through the motions, to go and present your decision, even if that decision is that its all a load of shite.

No elections in my bit of England. I feel a bit left out.