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Showing posts with label election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 May 2011

VOTE!

Come on people, if you're sitting there reading my blog - and this is the only time I'll say this - LOG OFF and pop out to your polling station.  I'll still be here when you get back.  Go, go!

Remember you're voting for the AV referendum, as well as the Scottish Parliament Election.  So it's a Yes for political reform and No for keeping it First-past-the-post.  If you're still not sure how it works, check out this wee video which is a bit daft, with the cats, but explains it pretty clearly.  Easy!


Also worth remembering, if you don't see anyone you want to vote for you can still go and use your right to vote by spoiling your ballot paper.  You can do this by putting X in more than one box, drawing a sad face all over the paper, or just leaving it blank and putting it in the box.  It's still worth doing though!

I know it's raining but your polling station must be pretty nearby, and it won't take long, and you only have to do it once every 4 or 5 years.  And sometimes you get biscuits at the polling station.  Though, I have to say, I've never seen them at mine...


So come on, what're you waiting for, get up there and just get it done!

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Election Time

I hope you haven't all seen the title of this post and immediately closed the window - stay with me!

As you should all know by now, there's an election on the 5th May and if you're still not sure about who to vote for (or maybe you think you just don't care), there's a wee event on tonight in the Glasgow Women's Library (15 Berkeley Street, down the side of the Mitchell Library) where members from the 7 main parties - Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem, Green, SSP, SNP, & George Galloway - will be there to answer questions and talk about their policies.

It starts at 6pm and it's free, I'm already going so if anyone wants to come along you can let me know, or you can just show up!  It probably won't last all that long, and it's a great way to get your head round the different parties and what they say they stand for.


Don't throw away your vote, you're lucky to have it!