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[hathycol]

Everyone, today is polling day for the 2005 General Election in Britain. I am not going to try and persuade people to follow my green, socialist views, because it's too late now.

But you know I DO want to say?

VOTE.

Go on. Go and VOTE.

Are you a man with working class roots? Or even middle class? People struggled and died for your right to vote. The Chartist movement, preceeded by the Levellers; nice people. Quite a lot of them killed by the police and army, just for asking for suffrage.

SO VOTE.

Are you a woman full stop? The same applies to you. I am not a radical feminist, I just think that if women died for us to have the right to vote then it's sickening not to use it.

SO VOTE.

As such, I beg of you to vote. Preferably Green or Labour, but in all seriousness, go and vote, even if you spoil the paper and write "never mind the bollocks" on it. All it takes is a cross and they even have pretty pictures to show you which party you're voting for.

SO VOTE.

...

GO ON THEN!

~Hathy_Col~

Comments

[helenllama.livejournal.com]

HAte to tell you this, but most of the Labour MP;s (13 from the last parliament excluded) and the party are capitalist and are now known in the scocialist area in scotland as the tories in disquise!

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I didn't say vote Labour - I'm all for voting Green, frankly.

Labour has always been capitalist, anyway. JUST VOTE. Even if you spoil the ballet paper, just VOTE!

[helenllama.livejournal.com]

I did - postal vote in Moray, i didn't do anything in ESW because it would have been fraud

[emmysuze.livejournal.com]

What do you mean Or even middle class?!? What's wrong with that? I'm proud of being middle class because it shows just how hard my parents have worked because they came from working class families.

Just winding you up.

I agree with you on the voting thing. Any woman who doesn't vote doesn't deserve to be able to.

[living-yen.livejournal.com]

I agree too, unfortunately I know people who don't, and won't be persuaded otherwise :(

don't actually have anything new to add, but I feel like there are more people bothered about taking part in this election, more people trying to point out how important it is to vote (on tv, radio, the internet, posters about, we had a leaflet through the door just asking us to vote from a neighbourhood watch type commitee) I guess we'll see if its true when they announce the turnout.

the count/result is on tv most of the night isn't it?

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

...because they came from working class families.

Being middle-class is not a bad thing! I was merely pointing out that even the middle classes wouldn't be able to vote without the Chartist movement. So :P And I know you're winding me up.

And I so agree with you on the second point.

[elyim.livejournal.com]

I would vote but I'm only 17 v_v I have been shouting at everyone I know who's old old enough to VOTE OR I WILL KILL YOU.

...I wouldn't vote Green or Labour though :P.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Eh, as long as people vote I don't carew who for. You know, unless it's BNP.

JUST VOTE BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WILL BE LIKE AMERICA.

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

i voted. see my page for more...
xx

[nerd-king.livejournal.com]

Let me know what you think of my response to the election on my Livejournal.