Working together, soon…
It’s a critical time in the country.
There are multiple threats to our democracy — our Government has attacked Parliament and the judiciary, and has given unlawful advice to the Monarch — and we have an electoral system that is not fit for purpose. Some of the parties’ central policy would see us having fewer votes, fewer elected representatives, and less influence in World affairs.
In society, a sense of division is rife.
With notable and honourable exceptions, some of the biggest political parties have not committed to working together, and some voters are tempted to stick with their tribe in the hope that they, against all odds, will be the winner that takes all. It is a gamble with our future.
Meanwhile, many are realising that, if the politicians can’t work together, they will have to do so themselves.
What if we — you, and me — could work together to create a better future?
Many now realise that tactical voting is the only way to see a Parliament that reflects their views.
Some 20% of voters voted tactically at the last election in 2017, and it was critical to the election result.
There are signs that more than 30% of people are considering voting tactically this time.
What is a voter to do if they want to support their party, but know that their vote will be wasted?
They should swap votes.
Someone else, somewhere else, feels exactly the same, in the opposite direction.
What unites these two voters is their desire for a better future, a better parliament, and a realisation that we are better when we work together.
Swap My Vote is launching this week for the General Election on the 12th December.
We will be helping people to make their one and only vote matter.
This is a critical election in the future of our country.
We (a small team of volunteers) have been working flat out behind the scenes to make sure the Swap My Vote platform is better, more resilient, and even more trustworthy than ever before.
We’ve had an unprecedented number of volunteer developer contributions and there’s a blog post here about the updates we’re introducing.
But the important thing to know is that we will be live in the next few days, and you will have two weeks or more to arrange a vote swap.
Thank you for bearing with us — what we’ve been doing takes quite some time to get right and we want to be ready for you when we open.
If you would like to help us reach as many people as possible this election and have the greatest impact, please consider sharing and donating to our Crowdfunder. Until now we’ve run on a shoestring - and we want to take things to the next level.
Find it here: https://crowdfunder.co.uk/swapmyvote/
Who knows what we can achieve this time, in 2019, if we work together?
Register now and get an email when Swap My Vote goes live, and share this post with your friends and family.
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