what did you do?

Vote

aah yes... local elections... forgot about that for a second,

🙂

so what do you think will happen... Rishi out or not?

(if you don't want to answer that is fine as well)

When the General Election happens, I think people will be looking for a change. I get the impression that people are tired of the many years in power of the Conservatives.

So, unless something majorly bad happens to Labour between now and then, I feel they will get in.

Would that be your thoughts too?

I saw somewhere that if the results are really bad for the Conservatives, Sunak might get booted.

(Personally, if I lived in London, I would be voting for the only candidate that makes any sense and has decent policies. Count Binface (https://www.countbinface.com/)

but who knows...

His launch video is spot on

Their manifesto

I'm all for it!!!

He'd get my vote as well!

Whoops apparently I can vote but didn't register in time. 😅 Since I've only been here 3 months it probably wouldn't be fair as I have no idea what any of the candidates stand for. Almost certainly would have voted for Binface. Ceefax fan lol! Or does he mean Ceephax [Acid Crew]? :thinking_face:

The former 🙂 I fondly remember Ceefax too

I’M THE ONLY POLITICIAN WHO STANDS UP FOR VOTERS. I’M THE ONLY POLITICIAN WHO ASKS WHY A 99 FLAKE COSTS A FIVER…

Sold!

Yay! Voting is important! I voted in every election at every level in England from when I was 18 until I emigrated to California in '99 -- and then after five years of dealing with the INS to become a citizen, I've voted in every possible election since 2005. Very important civic duty! (as is jury service)

I think voting is important too. My kid was with me to see how it was done (he dropped the ballot sheet into the box as well)

I too talk to my kids about the importance of voting with irritating regularity around election times. Recently I was having a friendly argument with a friend about democracy and I did a bit of a deep dive on ourworldindata (he was claiming that "democracy" is a meaningless term and should not be applied to any modern nation). I somehow didn't realize that widespread democracy is only decades young. In 1945 less than 8% of countries were even electoral democracies, peaking at 51% in 2012. It makes the whole experiment seem very fragile. Whoops, this probably belongs in #C03RZGPG3.

we started the convo here... might as well continue it here...

But I'm with Churchill on this one... the least bad of all the systems.