Chichester voters on why going out to vote is important

Chichester voters on why going out to vote is important in the 2024 General Election

Transcript

00:00It's Thursday 4th of July at 7 a.m. and the very first few people have been

00:04walking in and out casting their vote here at the polling station in

00:08Chichester. We'll be speaking to some of them and ask them about the importance

00:12of voting. I wanted to get it done. I live fairly near and so I just wanted to get

00:16it done and not have anything interfering with the rest of my day. I

00:20think it's very important for everybody to vote and obviously being a woman

00:24people fought for us and so I always vote. Quite often you go to the polling

00:30booth and there's no one else there do you know I mean so yeah hopefully

00:32fingers crossed this year people get up and vote. When I was younger to be

00:37honest I didn't vote when I was first of age to vote and I think that as I've got

00:41a little bit older you realise that actually it can make a big difference to

00:44your life in many different realms when you know what the different parties are

00:46offering and you can sort of go okay yeah I identify with that and that's

00:50important to me. You feel at least like you're having some sort of say. I'm here

00:53early in the morning to beat the rush because I live around the corner and I

01:01think it's very important that people vote. I think young people should be

01:04involved because they you know they are the future and it is their future we're

01:09talking about so I think they should vote and of course you know they have a

01:15different perspective on what should happen in the future and how politics

01:20what politics should do for us and what government should do for us.