Tomorrow I vote. And it’s not easy. I thought it would be made easier by the Citizens UK General Election Assembly on Monday night (declaration of interest: I helped organize it) which was, in the words of the Archbishop of Westminster last night, “the most interesting moment of the election and far better television that the three formal debates”.
Citizens UK is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, and the home of community organizing in the UK.
The fact that all three candidates appeared at our assembly of 2,500 people days before the election, and agreed to recognize civil society by appearing at future assemblies, has left me relaxed about the outcome. Civil society is the winner tomorrow.
But I’m not sure it made it easier to decide how to vote.
Read it all.
Austen Invereigh: UK elections: this Catholic mulls the options
Tomorrow I vote. And it’s not easy. I thought it would be made easier by the Citizens UK General Election Assembly on Monday night (declaration of interest: I helped organize it) which was, in the words of the Archbishop of Westminster last night, “the most interesting moment of the election and far better television that the three formal debates”.
Citizens UK is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, and the home of community organizing in the UK.
The fact that all three candidates appeared at our assembly of 2,500 people days before the election, and agreed to recognize civil society by appearing at future assemblies, has left me relaxed about the outcome. Civil society is the winner tomorrow.
But I’m not sure it made it easier to decide how to vote.
Read it all.