{"id":16856,"date":"2019-12-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16856"},"modified":"2019-12-12T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:00:00","slug":"vote-early-vote-often-thursday-12th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/vote-early-vote-often-thursday-12th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Early Vote Often – Thursday 12th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vote Early Vote Often<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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There used to be a slogan years ago in America Vote early Vote often<\/em>. Our Mistress was telling me about it. It goes back to times long before there were any sensible ways to check, when people who did get the vote would go more than once. Now, obviously in the UK that is not acceptable in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, making sure you vote is. I\u2019m speaking here as a dog who has not been given the right to vote. It is not something any of you humans should take for granted. It is a privilege. By being able to vote you get a say in how all our lives are run. It is very very important. However tired you are of some of the issues, don\u2019t let it just be like when a puppy asks for the same things over and over and wears you down until you give in. Be prepared to make a tough choice, even if you know it is not going to make it all go away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The View of the Pet Dogs Democratic Party<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the leader, somewhat retired, of the Pet Dogs Democratic\nParty it is my duty to remind you dogs and cats what we stand for. Yes, we do\nhave cat members as well as dogs. Anyway, I was born in Belgium to Swiss\nparents. I believe that it is a good thing that European countries work closely\ntogether. I want my pet passport to remain valid. I want our Mistress to be\nable to buy us things from other European countries without difficulty. I want\nto be able to get my medication easily when I need it. Most of all, I want to\nfeel safe in my basket at night. I want to know that we are all working together\nfor peace. I want to know that I don\u2019t have to worry about my food being\ngenetically modified or filled with chemicals. Oh I could continue the list \u2013\nand so could you if you really thought about it. Staying in the EU is the best\nthing for all of us \u2013 dogs, cats, humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dogs are not prejudiced, elitist, racist. We like, or dislike all\nhumans equally simply based on the person they are. We don\u2019t differentiate\nbetween rich and poor or base our decisions on gender, sexuality, level of\neducation or place of birth. We take each of you individually based on\nkindness, warmth, gentleness and ok yes smell! But I\u2019m not talking about expensive\nperfume or aftershave even then. I\u2019m talking about the real you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vote for kindness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you go to the polls today, vote for kindness, consideration, equality, fairness and unity. You can\u2019t put a price on any of those, but if you throw them away the cost will be very high indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alfie is reminded of the slogan vote early vote often – it may not be legal but maybe it’s the way to go.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[109,50,130],"class_list":["post-16856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","category-wisdom-and-experience","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}