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ravenHey, you guys, I voted! I love voting: I mean, I love teeny-tiny polling stations staffed by genteel old ladies, I love how you walk in and everyone is so pleased to see you, I love how in every general election in my memory it's a cherry-blossom May, and full of promise. It's an illusion, maybe, but it's one I'm happy to buy into, for one day at least.
Politically speaking, I was doing fine until I read this: Welcome to Cameron Land - Johann Hari visits Hammersmith and Fulham, the council area which Cameron claims is the model in miniature for his potential government. It's depressing. (hat-tip:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jacinthsong, foreverdirt.)
Still, we can but wait and see. I plan to stay up as long as I can.
edited to add this article on the BBC about what you can and can't do in a polling station is delightfully cheering. My favourite part:
"We wouldn't want people coming in with overt political clothing," says Mr Tonkin [Westminster's head of admin services]. However it is all about context. "There's a candidate standing in Westminster as a pirate. And if he comes in to vote in a pirate costume as is likely, we won't turn him away. The same goes for any supporters coming to vote as pirates."
Also, my exam results came out today and I got distinctions in everything. Yaaay. I was with a friend with similarly happy results, and we sat down on a bench in the rain looking out over Oxford, thinking happy thoughts, and she said, "Maybe this is a sign. Maybe this means the election will turn out well."
Then we looked at each other and laughed hysterically. I don't know, I don't know.
Politically speaking, I was doing fine until I read this: Welcome to Cameron Land - Johann Hari visits Hammersmith and Fulham, the council area which Cameron claims is the model in miniature for his potential government. It's depressing. (hat-tip:
jacinthsong, foreverdirt.)Still, we can but wait and see. I plan to stay up as long as I can.
edited to add this article on the BBC about what you can and can't do in a polling station is delightfully cheering. My favourite part:
"We wouldn't want people coming in with overt political clothing," says Mr Tonkin [Westminster's head of admin services]. However it is all about context. "There's a candidate standing in Westminster as a pirate. And if he comes in to vote in a pirate costume as is likely, we won't turn him away. The same goes for any supporters coming to vote as pirates."
Also, my exam results came out today and I got distinctions in everything. Yaaay. I was with a friend with similarly happy results, and we sat down on a bench in the rain looking out over Oxford, thinking happy thoughts, and she said, "Maybe this is a sign. Maybe this means the election will turn out well."
Then we looked at each other and laughed hysterically. I don't know, I don't know.
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on 2010-05-06 06:00 pm (UTC)(I love voting too! I feel kind of cheated that my mum gets to vote for me today.)
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on 2010-05-06 06:18 pm (UTC)Congratulations on your exam results! Having been reading about TE Lawrence (*blush* Yeah, I know...obsessive fangirl), who also went to Oxford, I have a better understanding of just what that means now and how hard it is to achieve. You continue to impress and amaze me. Keep up the good work.
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on 2010-05-06 06:23 pm (UTC)My sister lives in 'Cameronland' and has found her local Conservative councillors very helpful, but she doesn't like the council's plan to close the local library, and she was horrified by what turned out to have been going on elsewhere in the borough, as reported by Johann Hari.
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on 2010-05-06 06:30 pm (UTC)I am deeply weirded out, this is the first time I've voted and not had six pages of STV to deal with.
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on 2010-05-06 07:22 pm (UTC)That's awesome!!! Go you!!! :)
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on 2010-05-06 07:46 pm (UTC)But you are WIN. Many congratulations and hugs and alcoholic beverages your way!
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on 2010-05-06 08:39 pm (UTC)And congratulations on your distinctions.
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on 2010-05-06 08:55 pm (UTC)That Hari article is certainly eye-opening. I've got my fingers crossed...
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on 2010-05-06 11:08 pm (UTC)(Also, I have to admit feeling a little anticlimactical after voting: I missed putting all the little numbers in the boxes. I don't want to just *not* vote tory. I want to put the fuckers at the very bottom of my list)
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on 2010-05-06 11:09 pm (UTC)(and, thank you!)
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on 2010-05-06 11:10 pm (UTC)My friend
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on 2010-05-06 11:10 pm (UTC)(heeee! that's amazing.)
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on 2010-05-06 11:16 pm (UTC)Thanks very much, dear.
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on 2010-05-06 11:17 pm (UTC)(And, thank you so much!)
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on 2010-05-07 12:01 am (UTC)Voting by post is somehow not as exciting, but, well. It works.
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on 2010-05-07 12:19 am (UTC)Er, this point is that you should be VERY proud of your exams because you are brilliant and viva democracy.
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on 2010-05-07 02:03 am (UTC)I've been getting little bits and pieces of your election news filtered to me all day, because I'm running all over my workplace and the people in the doggie-daycare room have NPR world news on. It's an interesting perspective on international politics!
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And if he comes in to vote in a pirate costume as is likely, we won't turn him away. The same goes for any supporters coming to vote as pirates.
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