F.A.Q

The point is that a General Election is the people's democratic mandate by which they either support or oppose what the current HM Government is doing and to give them either their 'backing or sacking'.

It is, therefore, our chance to either back the current Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP or to elect a new Prime Minister and Leader of the United Kingdom.

We have not had a vote on how best to deal with the problems that are manifesting in the United Kingdom, and a General Election is the only way by which we can sort these out and move forward.

Our Vote is Our Say.

Though it is vital both of these are solved, the United Kingdom cannot wait for these to be solved before we have a General Election and indeed having a General Election will be a help rather than a hindrance in these times.

We need permanent solutions to these and other issues, and it appears that currently we are not getting these from either the United Kingdom nor devolved Governments.

By going to the Polls, we set a democratic mandate for the next HM Government to solve the issues of the day and to move on from these, with the votes on resolving them passed in both the House of Commons and then by the House of Lords and finally by Royal Assent.

The main reason is that we cannot wait until 2023 or indeed 2024 in order to sort out the issues currently wrecking the United Kingdom.  These need to be sorted out as soon as possible and Thursday 9th June 2022 is the ideal date - the end of Spring and just before the Summer Holidays.

If you had a car that was badly damaged, and it urgently needed fixing and everybody around you thought that it would be best for you to fix the issue(s) with the car now rather than later, it would be sheer folly to say 'no, I must wait until next year or 2024 because that is the prescribed order of things.'

Ask yourself why would you want to wait until 2023 or 2024, in order to cast your vote, whereas you could do this a lot sooner.

A General Election is a 'solve all' - from issues such as Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict to the economy, the potential independence of the four Home Nations etc. our votes are crucial towards which path we take in solving the issues at hand.

It is sheer folly to wait to have a say, whilst the United Kingdom is suffering - the 'choke point' is here and must be dealt with now for the sake of everybody.

It is certainly true that two-thirds of the MP's in the House of Commons would have to support the mechanism whereby the next General Election is on Thursday 9th June 2022, but this is a possible outcome and for different reasons the Political Parties and their Members at Westminster should be supporting the diplomatic and democratic process for the people of the United Kingdom to have their long overdue say.

Before the 2019 General Election, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party brought around the mechanism by which to enact that General Election. It can be done again by both parties or indeed with the addition of Labour, Plaid Cymru, DUP etc. or, as the Fixed Term Parliament is being removed via legislation by the current HM Government, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson could state his wish for an early General Election in order to put both his mandate and the Conservative Party's Manifesto to the people of the United Kingdom.

All sides of the Political debate and persuasion, as well as all of the Political Parties and their backers and supporters deserve to have their voices heard.

That may be your opinion and what you believe (and you are, of course, entitled to your point of view), but current polling and trends as well as the general mood of the people of the United Kingdom is that a General Election is the only way that we can move forward as a Nation and have our say on the important things that matter.

Plus, it is not as if we haven't had a number of General Election's in recent years - between 2015 and 2019 we had a General Election every two years which were three overall, mainly due to resolve the Brexit crisis - and 100 years ago between 1922 and 1924 there were YEARLY General Elections! The shortest gap between General Election's is only eight months (February 28th 1974 to October 10th 1974).

It will be 2.6 years since the last General Election, if we go to the Polls at the end of May - significantly longer than the two years between 2015 and 2017 and almost the same period of time as between 2017 and 2019. Therefore, it would not be an anomaly at all, and as restrictions from Covid-19 are going we would also be sure of a decent turn-out of the electorate.

It is NOT a hard and fast rule that General Elections have to be held every four to five years, and during a time of constitutional crisis or no confidence in the Government of the day, it allows the mechanism and apparatus for solving the problems by letting people have the final say - as these people are THE most important.