#UK Election 2024

[artielotl]

have a double dose of democracy by voting and reblogging 🥰

[itsaspectrumcomic]

If you're eligible to vote in the UK, please remember to vote tomorrow! Your opinion matters ❤️

[bramblebeau]

UK users, remember your photo ID when you vote!!

Full list of accepted forms of ID can be found HERE or HERE but includes:

Passport

Driving licence (full or provisional)

Blue Badge

Disabled person's bus pass or older person's bus pass (funded by the govt/local council)

Voter Authority Certificate

PASS identity card

Remember you can't use student ID cards or your National Insurance card!

Polls are open from 7.00am to 10.00pm

If you have a postal vote you haven't posted, you can hand it in at your polling station

We can't do anything about the state of the country unless we VOTE

[mariana-oconnor]

May all of Farage's pens run out of ink. May his Wi-Fi always be spotty. May he always reach the traffic lights just as they turn red.

[alexanderpearce]

[celestialhouses]

checking my ballot card to make sure I voted for the correct party, only to be ceaselessly plagued by visions of accidentally voting for reform until I finally fall into a tormented sleep

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

I think what annoys me so much about living in the UK with the current real struggles (cost of living specifically) is the apathy that people seem to have towards actually being angry about it and finding it unacceptable.

Everyone seems to have just accepted that this is the way things are now (bad) and will always be (worse), but worst of all is the belief/acceptance that things WERE ALWAYS JUST LIKE THIS which is just plain wrong.

It used to be the case that EVEN SOMEBODY on the bottom rung of society, say somebody unemployed who wasn't ever going to be able to work again or get themselves out of that situation... would be provided an affordable WHOLE HOME for themself by the council, which would be paid automatically from benefits they were automatically entitled to without having to jump through hoops and be constantly re-tested by an agent trying to trip them up.

That home might be small, and it might not be the best quality. But it would have a bedroom, a kitchen space, a bathroom, and small lounge all for that person's use, maybe even a garden as well - and that used to be understood as THE BARE MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE socially for any adult to have.

Nowadays you have working adults being charged what might be 60% or 70% of their salary just for A RENTED BEDROOM in a shared house. Never mind how people living on benefits are managing.

And what that means as well is in practice:

they might not have space to store food or belongings

they will probably only have partial use of a fridge

they won't have any control over who is in their home at any time because it is a shared house, including such basics as being able to use the bathroom whenever they like. etc.

It's great to see people protesting about causes abroad that matter to them and that the government here is turning a blind eye to or signing off on suffering related to, sure.

But there needs to be some outrage and will to change this kind of thing too. This isn't acceptable either, and rolling over to accept it now only opens the door for nothing ever to change and a mountain of ill mental health issues to be built up until one day sooner or later it suddenly explodes and leads to everyone affected spiralling irreversibly.

[kits-ghosts-corner]

i mean this with every ounce of my heart

if you even considered voting for reform, let alone actually vote for them, i hope you every trans person’s pain and tripled and given to you

[ametal0xide]

Some optimism...

🦀 The Tories ousted in the UK, Reform doing worse than exit polls indicated, fascists losing in France. Things aren't perfect for the left of course but is going way better than I had expected. 🦀

[jayjo-reads]

Hot girls are staying up to see the results come in because the anxiety of reform or tories (unrealistically) suddenly winning is too strong. The trauma of the party is strong with that one.

[weedle-testaburger]

this is literally what farage and his cronies have been doing

[sebsrainbowbicycle]

If you’re in the UK, can vote and want the tories out of power as soon as fucking possible, can I recommend this website (it’s being updated at the moment so might not have the result for your area given the sudden call for election) :

[nicocoisanerd]

The real reason to vote Labour.

[weshallc]

I found today really difficult. Hard to vote against something rather than for something. But to not vote is unimaginable.

[alexanderpearce]

[themalhambird]

The election is no longer about who forms the government. Its about who gets to form the opposition. The Liberal Democrats are so, so close to beating the Tories to second place, one more big push for tactical voting could do it...

I AM ONCE AGAIN RECCOMENDING stopthetories.vote for advice on how to keep the Conservative candidate winning in your area.

Let's cost the Conservative bastards as many seats as possible *and* make sure Labour is genuinley held to account when they've got the keys to Westminster.