Hey Sweeties,
At the age of 27… wait, 26. I’m 26! (You know when you’re a couple of months away from the next age so you start thinking yourself a year older…no? just me?). Anyway, at 26 years old I have just gone to the polling station to vote for the first time. Whoopie … I think?
Women’s Right to Vote
To vote is exciting, and women have come a long way to be able to have this experience, this privilege, and contribute to society in this way so I am by no means complaining. I am just disappointed that the choice available (as in political party) wasn’t a bit more straight forward and optimistic.
I feel that there is a new energy in the UK; I feel that society has hit breaking point or at least it is on the horizon but it’s built up more on hysteria than in truth. We think the country has gone to the dogs and to those that have recently moved here from abroad. But has any British person I know who needs a job lost out to a non-English person? No. Is life in the UK still a bit shit? Yes.
The cost of living has soared and people (me included) have or are in the process of getting second jobs just to afford the basics. It’s not great is it? But, it’s not so bad that the army have been called in to manage us.
We’re not so angry that we’ll fight to overturn the government and although parliament is full of clowns, they’re not dictators (not yet). We’re crying out for a leader, someone that hears us, all of us, and creates the right amount of change and actions to make us all feel a bit happier and let’s be honest, equal.
Sister Suffragettes
So I’m stood in the polling station, my ballot paper in front of me, and the decision of where to place my precious cross is not obvious, in fact it’s reluctant.
When no one really deserves my vote, I am still having to make a decision so as not to waste it and fail my sister suffragettes who chained themselves to gates, went under the King’s horse and a whole number of other forms of protest for this.
Government is just a bit useless
So no, I wasn’t going to not vote. It is just unfortunate that none of the parties I think or believe stand out; they’re extreme or useless, mostly useless in an extreme way.
So while they’re using their ridiculous expenses for duck houses and second mansions, the British people are left just a bit pinched and the friction between them and us has grooved a deepening divide.
We just want a party of decent individuals to run the country. Is that too much to ask, like really?
Anyway, please go and vote, both now and in the future when the moment arises. Use. Your.Voice! If you’re not registered to vote, you can do that here.
Until next time x
