seldnei:

lozzielizbeff:

This is a call to arms. If you are British, if you are signed up to the elctoral register, if you have your polling card:

Go out and vote.

This is not a joke anymore. You can’t sit back and let everyone else try and change things, because there are hundreds of thousands of people who will be doing the exact same thing. We cannot afford to be politically apathetic. We cannot afford to let this go on any longer.

Fight back. Don’t let these reverse Robin Hoods rake your hard earned cash from you under the guise of ‘austerity’, all the while putting that cash firmly in the pockets of their wealthy friends.

Do not allow these self serving, pro class-divide monsters take away a nearly 70 year old institution that has prolonged and saved and began so many British lives. Refuse to pay for the privilege of being unwell, of being injured, of having a child, of being disabled or in need of a sensory aid.

I for one will be at that polling booth on June 8th, putting my cross in that box that spells a better, brighter, more socially and economically just future for our youngest, oldest, poorest and sickest. Anyone but the Tories, anyone but Blue, anyone but the Nasty Party.

Please vote next Thursday. Your voice and your life matters just as much as theirs – speak up.

Today, literally, a story on NPR about this election, and a Washington Post article (that is now behind a paywall, dammit), but–the polls are showing that the race is a lot closer than they expected.  But the polls are assuming that young people they polled will actually vote. 

If you’re a young person (which goes to, what, 35?) in the UK–VOTE.  Seriously, the Tories thought this would be a super-easy seat grab, and the polls are showing that you guys can stop that.  You’re making them really nervous.  Go show them they ought to be.