I'm only really writing this post because I finally got to vote in elections in the UK. Today, there are local elections for all the London councils, by the way. That's the occasion.
To be honest, I don't really care as much as I should. I know, I should care way more. after all this is my local borough. They're the ones in charge of bins and potholes and clean streets and all that. But it's also hard to be invested enough when you don't know who your councillors are going to be. They may as well be anonymous to me, I couldn't tell you who I voted for and I went this morning. Yes, I could have gone to some local convention or whatnot if they were being organised, but I don't have time to do that - I reckon most people don't, in fact, with jobs and all that.
There's also the fact I feel somewhat apathetic politically, as well. Please don't use this post as an opportunity to say which side you think is best, by the way, I read the news and look at the polls regularly, and I have a pretty good idea of who I'd vote for if there was an election tomorrow. But I'm not sure if any of the candidates really appeal to me, and loads of people feel that way. Hell, I wonder if we're going to have a government voted in on sub-30% vote share in three years, perhaps on a massive majority. That's a real possibility and I'm not keen on it.
About the voting itself, it was alright. A toddler could figure out what you do when you enter the voting booth. The polling station had loads of signs saying "polling station", if you somehow weren't aware from one sign. A man wearing a Reform UK rosette spotted me leaving the voting booth, and asked me if I wanted to put my address down. To deter canvassers, he said. I awkwardly said no, since anyone who looked like a political party supporter being so keen on stopping canvassers seemed slightly off to me. I passed by the polling station a while later, and he wasn't there anymore. Maybe it was lunchtime, or he realised his "ruse" wasn't going anywhere. Maybe I was overthinking what he wanted at the time.
The next elections are in four years, see you then. Odds are I'll have completely forgotten about these ones in that time.
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