#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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[deafmangoes]

So! Labour's in charge now and the Conservatives are out. Job done, right?

Lol, nope. Our first female Chancellor is a devout capitalist of the same vein as the Tories, has had plagiarism claims made against her about her book, and openly supports Israel. Noted transphobe Wes Streeting has been appointed Health Minister, so we're not out of the woods yet regarding the Cass Review. Our new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has a good eye for BAME discrimination in the UK, which is great - but also thinks parents not hitting their children enough is the cause of many social ills, and kinda openly supports Israel's continuing slaughter of Palestinians.

And that's just three members of the new cabinet, I've not looked into the others yet. We need to be sure to keep holding them to account throughout the next five years, and not rest easy thinking we've "won" just because the current PM wears red instead of blue.

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Excerpt: Towards the end a caller asked about food banks. In 2010, there were 35 of them. Today there are at least 1,200. “How, as a Prime Minister who is richer than the King, can you relate to any of our needs and struggles?” Sunak wriggled out whichever way he could. “I want to get the number down,” he said. Then he attempted to remind everyone about how he delivered furlough during the pandemic. “I’d like to get the number down,” he said again. At this point Ferrari audibly sighed, a deep heavy exhalation, as if his soul was leaving his body. “You’re sighing,” Sunak replied, “but what else would you expect me to say?”

Ferrari had a sensible suggestion: “Practical measures as to how you bring them down.”

But it was no use. There was no chance of getting him to express any specific plan because he had of course never given such a thing a moment’s thought. “Well that’s what I was talking about,” the Prime Minister said, his sense of agitation and superiority finally coming out. “Well, can I answer the question? The practical measures to help people are to make sure they have good jobs that pay them well.” Brilliant. Why had no one thought of that?

In each case, Sunak could have attempted to do something about the problem during his time in power. He could have shown a desire to address the conditions that gave rise to food banks. He could have tried hard, early on, to secure an agreement in the various NHS disputes, instead of attempting to ignore them. He could have pursued a concerted organisational project for reducing NHS waiting times. He could have provided a functional asylum policy, rather than the mean-spirited irrationality of Rwanda. He could have thought about how to help young people rather than providing policy punishments in a bid to placate the jealousies of the old.

He had done none of these things. At best, as with NHS waiting times, his policy solutions were non-existent. At worst, as with Rwanda, they were actively harmful. And today, like on every other day of this campaign, he faced the music.

It is amusing and satisfying. But it is also something else: it is democratically necessary. The public humiliation of the Prime Minister is a demonstration of the free society working.

[bottlesandbarricades]

The sentiment was lovely, but I was sat there like: