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A letter to my son on election day.

Cockerills go voting Dear Elijah, You didn’t really understand what was going on this morning, or the importance of today. Other than the library looking different and not being able to look at the books like you normally do you had no idea what mummy and daddy were doing. We explained we had to go and vote, go in and tick a little box. That little box is your future. Your unborn brother or sister’s future. The next five years. Until we had you, we were never too bothered about voting, partially not understanding the importance of a lost vote or just being too cool to care. I always took those women who fought so hard for us to be able to go and vote for granted. But they should be honoured, remembered and thanked that we do have the ability to be part of the decision of how our country is run. I  believed that I wouldn’t be able to change the country with my vote, so what was the point? I didn’t want to vote for those parties so why bother? Howev...