Everyone else: Also don't forget to vote

[Stu]

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Aarrgh. Ok, the most common argument against voting put forth, also the easiest to dismiss. Local elections, perhaps more so than nationals - DO make a difference. Do you want weekly or fortnightly bin collections? Do you want that road repaired? Do you want that drain sorted? Do you want a crossing put in outside your kid's school? Do you want that pointless crossing in the middle of nowhere removing? Do you want that housing development up the road to get planning permission?.

Don't Care!









j/k didn't realise anything was happening around the country - heard so little about it compared with Mayoral elec.

Will seek out my polling station & make a decision when I get there

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

... is filled with scroungers, the poor, single mothers, druggies and other benefit leaching mofo's who dont work so actually have time to go and vote, and probably massively out number the decent people...

In light of another current thread, I'm certainly not taking offence at this and I'm quite sure you didn't mean to cause any, but I would just like to point out that my very own mother was for a significant part of my childhood both poor and a single mother. I also consider her to be one of the "decent people". I'm not sure that being rich and married is a requirement for being a decent human being

Originally Posted by Stu

Don't Care!









j/k didn't realise anything was happening around the country - heard so little about it compared with Mayoral elec.

Will seek out my polling station & make a decision when I get there

You might not have any in your area, it's most councils in the UK but not all seats on every council, I think the Welsh assembly has every seat up for grabs.

[timwilky]

ME and Missus voted at lunchtime. Daughter is on a break in Barcelona so had a proxy vote. Son/daughter in law didn't even realise there was an election. She asked me who to vote for, then decided she couldn't be bovvered.

Boy did I enjoy rebuking her

[G]

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

But, erm, you've just stated that you do care - about bin collections at any rate. So you'll complain about them to the 'org but not to your councillor? Where's the sense in that? Does your councillor read Idle Banter?

And about the time to vote, they're open from 7am till 10pm - now I'm sure there are some people working split shifts that can't make that, but I'm pretty sure that's a very tiny minority. And for those people, there are postal votes. So you're telling me you can't get to the polling station between 7am and 10pm and you've lost the ability to use a letterbox?

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Too lazy to write an X on a piece of paper? Man, that is lazy

Not letting you off while there's still time for you to drag yourself out of the house to the polling station

To be honest the little things really dont bother me, my town is run ok and I wouldnt notice if anything changed anyhow, and nothing bothers to the extent that i feel the need to write to my local councillor.

I leave for work at 6:45 and dont really get in until 7pm at which point I would rather cook my dinner than have to eat late, and then either relax or go to the gym than take a trip to the local polling station.

I dont even think I'm on the electoral roll or whatever it is, my girlfriend got a voting card through the door but I didnt lol.

[G]

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

In light of another current thread, I'm certainly not taking offence at this and I'm quite sure you didn't mean to cause any, but I would just like to point out that my very own mother was for a significant part of my childhood both poor and a single mother. I also consider her to be one of the "decent people". I'm not sure that being rich and married is a requirement for being a decent human being

No but they often have very different local priorities and views.

Again no offence is ever intended, just in it for the banter, (and sometimes to get a reaction )

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

I think the Welsh assembly has every seat up for grabs.

Wrong! It is all the unitary authority seats up for election in Wales. That's County Council seats for us old fashioned types. Also in my ward we were electing the Community Council.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Wrong! It is all the unitary authority seats up for election in Wales. That's County Council seats for us old fashioned types. Also in my ward we were electing the Community Council.

Oops, I stand corrected

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

To be honest the little things really dont bother me, my town is run ok and I wouldnt notice if anything changed anyhow, and nothing bothers to the extent that i feel the need to write to my local councillor.

I leave for work at 6:45 and dont really get in until 7pm at which point I would rather cook my dinner than have to eat late, and then either relax or go to the gym than take a trip to the local polling station.

I dont even think I'm on the electoral roll or whatever it is, my girlfriend got a voting card through the door but I didnt lol.

Ok, last attempt How about on your way home from work, you stop off at the station, do it on your way home, it's probably even on your route, at worse it'll be a two minute detour. You don't need your voting card, you drop in and say "My name is ... and I live at ....". If you're not on the electoral role then I'll let you off (bet you get a council tax bill though, so I suspect you're on it, and it's a legal requirement to fill in the electoral role thingy when it comes round). It'll take you absolute max of ten minutes. And you won't have to do it again (for local elections) for another FOUR YEARS. For that ten minutes every four years you get the exclusive ability to whine and whinge to the 'org about every crappy local decision your council makes and we'll all have to put up with it

I shouldn't even be doing this, my hunch would be that your vote would likely not be going to one of the Hug A Care Bear candidates so actually, scratch that - don't vote, the Care Bears will RULE THE WORLD

[Lissa]

I won't vote because there is no candidate standing for a party I would cast my vote for.

Voting for any old candidate just to cast a vote is fundamentally wrong, IMO.

I think all voting slips should have a 'keithd' option