Do you live there? If so you probably have a vote in local elections tomorrow. Whether you vote, and how you vote, will be very important.

We all did a great job last year in getting rid of the Tories. Unfortuantely they have been replaced by Reform, who are even worse, and we have a supposed Labour government who are doing their damnedest to be more right wing than Reform.

A lot of people are telling me that they are totally fed up with politics and will never vote again. But if you do that it will just let Reform in. If they have control of your local councils they are likely to do a DOGE on them. They’ll strip money from your schools, your libraries, your roads, your refuse collection services and so under the pretence of “saving money”, and funnel as much of that money as they can into their own pockets.

Labour are banking on the assumption that, no matter how right wing their policies might be, all left wing voters will still back them because there is no alternative. That’s very foolish of them. Many parts of England have had LibDem councils. The Greens are by far the largest party on Bristol City Council. The world has not come to an end as a result. Also, having no party with an overall majority can be a good thing. It forces parties to work together and discourages extremist policies.

So please, do vote. But not for Reform, the Tories or Labour. And when you have done so, if you can take the time to write to Kier Starmer and tell him that you didn’t vote Labour because of his stance on trans rights (or immigration, the EU, social security, pensioners, copyright, online safety, or his craven bootlicking of Donald Trump) that would be very helpful.