the_lady_lily

It is a bit strange to have woken up five hours behind everyone else and find that all the good posts on why people should go and vote in the UK election, if they are able to, have already been written.

But I have to say, I am delighted to see so many of them.

I remember last time around, when I was quite keen about the Cambridge seat, but the rest of the world seemed largely indifferent. This time there actually seems to be a genuine interest in the result, a sense of world-changing importance, that your vote might actually make a difference.

I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, or indeed tell you who I have voted for via my fought-for postal vote. I know two other British citizens here without those votes, because they weren't able to convice anyone they had once been on the electoral roll at anywhere they could remember - and so I am fiercely, fiercely glad that one of the first things I did on moving to this country was make sure I was registered for postal voting. Just in case.

So, surrounded by disenfranchisement, it makes the importance of exercising your vote and maintaining that right to vote, if you have it, even more obvious to me.

brisingamen has said all of this far more eloquently than I can, so I suggest you read her post rather than try to repeat it here.

But, I'll say it again - I'm glad that this time, when I post this, I don't feel like the only voice crying out in the wilderness. This time, we are giving up a great shout.