#General election 2024

[useless-englandfacts]

Tories: Here’s our plan to feed anyone under 25 years old into a wood chipper

Labour: Here’s our plan to be as transphobic as possible while also suspending every left-wing Black and Asian woman in the party

Reform: *constantly on telly*

Greens: *never on telly*

Lib Dems:

[michaelgovehateblog]

Just going to take a moment before I let myself start despairing the new government, to realise that holy shit. The conservatives have actually lost in a major major way. After 14 years they're actually gone. I was 8 when they came into power, most of my life, and definitely all of my life where I've been politically aware, has been under Tory rule. They're out and that's a victory

[ancientstone]

REMEMBER THE LAST 14 YEARS OF CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP

VOTE VOTE VOTE

(and feel very free to add more)

[dont-forget-your-photo-id]

Quick links: Register to vote | Check if you have accepted photo ID | Apply for a Voter Authority Certificate

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The UK general election is on Thursday, 4th July.

You need to register to vote before Tuesday, 18th June.

It usually takes about 5 minutes. You'll be asked for your National Insurance number, but you can still register if you do not have one.

You can register to vote anonymously if you're concerned about your name and address appearing on the electoral register for safety reasons.

Register at https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.

You'll need to show photo ID when voting in person.

Check if you have accepted photo ID at https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need.

If you don't have photo ID, you have until 5pm on Wednesday, 26th June to apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate.

Apply at https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate.

[down-therabbithole]

New decade on the UK this morning. The new goverment needs to be held accountable on a lot of things, but with also 14yrs of austerity, laws in tatters and literally no money in the treasurey need to give them a bit of a chance

[artielotl]

have a double dose of democracy by voting and reblogging 🥰

[morganaspendragonss]

polling day on thursday so this is your notice that if you actively choose not to vote, then you have no fucking right to complain about the way things turn out.

"but i don't want to go to the polling station!" you had plenty of time to apply for a postal or proxy vote.

"they're both the same!" 1. no they're fucking not. 2. this isn't the us. voting for the greens or the lib dems or snp or independent or count fucking binhead does mean something.

"but the prime minister will be rishi sunak or kier starmer!" yes, probably, but politics is not just national. you will be represented by somebody, i suggest you look at your local candidates.

democracy literally only works if people participate. go and fucking vote.

[ocean-sunfish-hater]

Dog Democracy

ID: Three African Painted Dogs facing the camera, holding the same stick. They have not a single thought between them. The dogs are mottled black, white and a pale brown/yellow. They have large ears.

Group decision making in the animal kingdom is always really funny to me, because there's so many surprising ways in which it's implemented.

Painted Dogs (aka African Wild Dogs akaka Cape hunting dogs) operate on a semi-democratic system when it comes to deciding when to go on an adventure (excursion). Unfortunately they don't have voting centres or ballot papers, mostly because they don't have opposable thumbs so holding a pen would be really hard.

Instead, they sneeze! If a quorum is reached within the group, they will depart to complete the task they need, which can range from hunting to exploring new territory. Much like human democracies, they're not quite equal: those individuals with higher social standing carry a greater weight in the vote, and thus a few high ranking sneezes are sufficient for a quorum, vs many inferior sneezes.

So Fuck Pericles, Fuck Athens, give credit where it's due, dogs had democracy long before humans did.

If you are in the UK and above the age of 18, don't forget to REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION by the 18th of June! It is our civic duty to beat the everloving neoliberal shit out of The Tories and The Tories Lite.

[bottlesandbarricades]

Rishi standing in the pissing rain, getting soaking wet while announcing the election as Things can only get better blared in the background was certainly a look

[toenzy]

That didn't take long.

[useless-englandfacts]

nature is healing <3

[michaelgovehateblog]

General elections show us how many secret hidden bigots there are out there. They won't publicly speak out, but as soon as they have the chance to be anonymous, they'll vote for parties like reform UK. And it's terrifying to see

[nic-coughlan]

babe

babe wake up the tories are out after FOURTEEN YEARS

BABE WE HAVE A NEW GOVERNMENT

[ancientstone]

Wake up babe new polling station pet just dropped

[sandinmybed]

really fucking concerning how many votes the racism reform party are getting even if that's not translating to seats

[coutelier]

That's it - The Labour Party have passed 326 seats, meaning they have won the election and, after 14 years of Tory rule, there will be a new UK government. Still a lot of results to come in, but now we know the winner I am going to bed.