Today is one of those days you may just want to be over. Anything so you no longer have to turn on the TV or radio, or open your favourite news app, and see the words "general election". If you've been opening the door with trepidation for fear it's yet another canvasser, you're almost safe, their work is almost done.
You may have managed to avoid any of the headlines about the election at all. Or be one of the committed souls with a hand drawn map ready to fill in, or one of those planning an election night party to celebrate or commiserate the result. But wherever you stand right now, today, Thursday July 4, is an important day, it is general election day.
Between 7am and 10pm your polling station is open and waiting for you. You simply need to turn up - and, for the first time ever, take ID with you (learn more about that here). READ MORE: How you can follow the election on WalesOnline READ MORE: Who are the candidates where I live in the general election 2024 By Friday, we'll know who all 650 MPs who will represent our country are.
We'll know if there will be a new Prime Minister moving into 10 Downing Street. But, we get it, for most people, it's hard to be interested because this is a day you're asked to go pick someone you'll probably never meet to go to a place you'll probably never step inside, to talk in a really old-fashioned language about a load of things that you don't think matter to you. You have other things to do.
School fairs to get ready for, emails to ans.
