Poor old Kier Starmer..

Although I didn't actually vote for him.

Some thought his conference speech wasn't bad, but it wasn't.. world-changing was it?

In fact I didn't vote for anybody. I'd "decided" not to vote in advance. I went down with my son because he didn't know where the polling station was and hadn't voted before. But when we got there his name wasn't on the role.

(While he was away at uni, I'd failed to respond to a letter. We found it the following day.)

So we wondered if I could use my vote on his behalf.. But the people at the desk took a bit of a dim view of that. I suppose it's not surprising really.

Thank goodness ours is a very safe seat, so a couple of votes here or there would make no difference.