Voted - Done And Dusted

[SIRandyraven]

Postal vote forms arrived today - filled in and in post Saturday.

 The media can stop the 24 by 7 political waffle now :-)

I was going to vote Reform,  but our local Conservative MP is very good and looked into a few things I have written to her about with positive results. Funny thing is I have never written to an MP before the last 5 years and now written 3 times on different issues.

[Ellipsis]

Posted mine yesterday.  Thank God it's all over ... 

[Old_Geezer]

I rarely got any satisfaction from writing to my MP. Usually some staff member would send a standard reply which not only didn't reference the query but led to the impression that they hadn't even read it. If followed up there was always some invalid excuse as to why they weren't interested.

[bhg481]

We posted ours yesterday too.

[SIRandyraven]

@Old_Geezer - I thought afternoon my first email I would hear nothing. But she replied or assistant did, said she would look into it and sorted the problem. In this case one hospital was offering free parking for oncology patients and its twin in same trust was charging. 

[Vagus]

Posted ours off yesterday, the dye is cast, so to speak.

Apparently in a general election vote, you should vote for the party you want in, not because you like or dislike the local bloke/lady. This is something I've always done so I'm surprised it needed pointing out to people 🤔

 

[Toorak]

We received ours today. I am voting strategically this time. The party I would like to vote for doesn't have a chance (especially following the gerrymandering electoral boundary changes) so I am voting for the party that I hope will defeat the candidate/party that I don't want to win.

[Vagus]

My OH voted similar toorak, because of boundary changes, which I don't think is the right thing to do.

The person I voted for hasn't got a hope I hell of being elected locally but I couldn't in all conscience vote for someone in a party I don't want in.

Interesting isn't it?

[Toorak]

I agree vagus - I usually vote for the party I want to win but our sitting mp is very good so I am happy to support him even if I don't agree with all his party's policies.

[sandyRoe]

The party I would have voted for have entered an electoral pact and won't be running a candidate in my constituency.  I'll vote for the party they've made the deal with, knowing in another constituency they've stood aside and my party will win there.

It should work out well.