Will/Have you voted?

[Hulababy]

We have two ballot papers - one for local elections and one for european one.

Dh has just picked up our ballot papers envelopes and realised that these have to be in by 10pm tomorrow evening. Missed last post so he is going to have to take them over to the City Hall tomorrow during the day some time. Ooops!

I have to say that I found the postal voting a bit of a pain as it is so easy to forget if you don't do it as soon as the envelope arrives, which is what we failed to do obviously!

Obviously for me it'd be loads easier if I could do it online as I spend so much time on here

So is everyone remembering to go along to vote, or are you abstaining (choosing the right not to vote I guess)?

rofl who is shagger norris

Aloha, what do you think is a fair, alternative way to deal with traffic congestion in London? I see that you voted Green. What is their policy on this? I genuinely want to know, as I work, but do not live, in London and so didn't get any of their literature for the mayoral election.

This is the first time I have not voted only euro here so not too bad

I sent dh out for me to vote by proxy. He said he was going to make my vote conservative, I threatened him and he finally got let out to play and vote when he had sworn on his chicken nuggets, (he wants for supper) that he would vote lib/dem.
I remember the days......when if you were unable to get to the polling station they would pick you up and take you. I used to let the conservative candidate arrange transport and then vote lib.dem!!!! I used to have a postal vote but I have not yet got one since I moved, so I had to do it by proxy.

My best mate had someone round yesterday who has been contracted by her insurance company to look at her kitchen ceiling (falling in). This is in south l'don.

he was skinhead with tatoos but, not wanting to jump to conclusions, she chatted to him. He came out with loads of racist rubbish. She was too scared to say anything so he continued, thinking she agreed. Then he started making pervy comments too.

Her dh is on business on the other side of the world (but back tomorrow thank god). This guy admited he is member of BNP.

My mate has woken up in the night, having had nightmares about him raping her!!!

MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL!!!!!

and her dh is half indian.

obviously they will complain to insurance co. But makes me mad that she had to put up with this in her own home.

The reason the bnp are likely to get in is because the euro elections are done on a list system and once you have a few percent of the vote (five??) you automatically get the first person on your list elected. So it may well happen.

Final bit of rant, not to do with BNP -
child tax credit, free nursery places for 3 year olds, extended maternity leave, new paternity leave, childcare tax creditc, 250 pounds for new babies, parental leave, carer's leave, better employment rights, minimum wage.......

if the Tories came back into power they wouldn't hesitate to get rid of all those things.

Well I hope those of you in the South West voted for your fellow mumsnetter . Only I only ever have time to read a little and virtually never contibute as I've been so busy campaigning so you don't really know me ....
I'm standing for the European Parliament on the Lib Dem list down here and I've knocked off campaigning about half an hour early as I needed cake (still breastfeeding).
I've had some amazing experiences campaigning with ds over the past few months Talk about a learning experience!
Anyway polls close at ten so I might have to go and do a bit more campaigning while ds sleeps peacefully upstairs.

I have not voted this time.

I selected to vote by post, but the papers had not arrived by the time I left for my mums last week.

Voted by post. Much quicker, shall do this in future.

done!

Bugger. I've just remembered and dh has just gone out, and the booths close in 3 minutes, and I can't leave the house. I was fully intending to vote, but dd has spent the latter part of this afternoon being very sick, so have been slightly preoccupied with that really!

yes, but I made a balls-up of it unfortunately Got to the Polling Station at around 9pm, had been at work all day, taken dd swimming for 2 hours was wacked...got to polling station, ticked the box for the local election but as booth I was in only mentioned local one I only ticked that...when got other bigger sheet presumed it was about local parties for the big election, to read or something...was too tired to think and am afraid didn't vote for European election much to dh's annoyance (long but important to vote as every vote makes a difference) has anyone else ballsed this up (am normally very thorough but just tired(no excuse) but one vote missing, it's not a lot.

I haven't voted. I don't think that Emily Pankhurst would be turning in her grave over this - naturally I support women's suffrage and am grateful for the sacrifes women made a few generations ago to get us the vote....Soupdragon is spot on - people fought and died to get us the choice to vote. I'm exercising my choice not to use my vote.

I didn't vote because in all honesty I can't profess to being very familiar with the detailed policies and position statements of each of the main political parties - and to me its 'wrong' to vote if you are not adequately informed. You're just dealing with prejudice and misperception otherwise.

I voted. By post! I always vote but was especially determined this year after getting a BNP leaflet through the door - boiling blood and all that.

Oh woe, Aloha! I'm truly appalled that you felt you had to vote for Norris! Just fyi, I think secret ballots were invented for this very situation- you don't have to admit to anyone else that you stooped low enough to vote for Shagger and we won't tell because we love you. Deal?

I feel that if you don't vote you do not have the right to moan about what is going on with regards to what choices are made for us by government or by the government for us as a nation - we all have a democratic chance of choosing who we want to run the country and by not voting we are, I agree, saying we don't care!!

Look what happened last time when so many people didn't vote - we got bloody Tony and his warmongering and chuminess with Dubya!!

I voyed last time and still got stuck with Tony mind you with things as there are whoever you vote the government get in an dthere is really not much difference it is just the way it is all dressed up that differs

I voted.

Yup voted.
Don't understand why we got two choices for London mayor though. Seems likely that Ken might get back in based on getting lots of second place votes. Surely you shouldn't be elected because you're everyone's second favourite!

Oldiemum, I think if they stopped digging up the roads, there wouldn't have been the congestion in the first place that made it seem less congested afterwards. I think it was a total set up. Also, congestion seems to me to be self-limiting. If it is intolerable, some people won't drive, so it won't be so intolerable, iyswim.
If buses and trains were better more people would choose them anyway. Mind you I can't use the disgusting, overcroweded, filthy, boiling hot underground as it makes me hysterical with panic. Generally, I feel that our representatives have a duty to use carrots rather than sticks, and I speak as someone who thinks a £80 fine for taking your baby into town to help out with a medical research project and simply forgetting to pay the sodding charge is a very big stick indeed. Nobody takes hundreds of pounds off me like that and gets my vote!
And yes, I know the Green Party would really like us all to travel to work on bicycles we have knitted ourselves out of hemp, but they were fiercely antiwar in Europe, which is why I voted for them there and not locally.
I am delighted that Tony got a good kicking. He says we'll all change our minds when Iraq 'comes right'. Hmm, let's see about that,eh? And it won't make that little boy's arms grow back, will it.
Also revolted by the sight of him at Reagan's funeral. He was an evil man.

And it looks as if Ken has got back in. That probably means the whole of London will be a under his wretched congestion charge and there will more hideous norman foster monstrosities blighting the city, and that really does make me sad. I wish he'd stuck to newts.

Believe me, I don't feel good about the Shagger, but I have been too financially hurt by that charge to ever support it. And I think it's plain wrong. I also hate the pay before you get on buses. I never have the right money. I think Ken's done absolutely nothing for London.

Just got our local paper - Labour got back in and worse the BNP got two seats and finished second in four wards and third in another three. That's quite a lot of votes - scary or what!!

I voted by post in the London elections even though we don't live there anymore as we moved here too late to be registered and Icouldn't stand not to vote.
Much rather Ken than Steve Norris, but dissapointed Simon Hughes didn't do better. What really really upset me though was that the BNP candidate got more votes than the greens Are thetre really more racists than environmentally friendly people in London?