General elections are different when you live afloat as a continuous cruiser, moving from location to location.
We’ve already voted via postal votes after managing to register to vote as No Fixed Abode voters – see our previous blog for the ins and outs of that initial saga!
This election has brought us clear positives:
No candidate fliers – we don’t get post unless we collect it as we did with our postal votes.
No candidates knocking on the door – although I’ve yet to meet any family or friends who have encountered canvassers in person. I did meet a Reform candidate in another constituency when trading and actually sold to her and her husband, but I wasn’t of much interest to her because I wasn’t a voter in her area.
No remembering your id to be able to vote.
No need to leave the dog outside the polling station.
No juggling of work schedules on the day, resulting in a mad dash to a polling booth.
It’s been a positive experience given that when electioneering we do hear gets too much, we can just turn off the news!
So we’ve voted already. I’ve heard many people say they can’t be bothered to vote this time, but however you intend to vote next Thursday, July 4 – please do vote if you are registered. Your voice, your vote counts. The more people vote, the more representative the outcome, whatever that may be for us all.
And in other news (always welcome in an election campaign) if you are taking place in the Ironman competition in Bolton this weekend – good luck – we’ll be cheering you on and organisers have been hard at work this week around us getting everything ready for you!
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