To ask if you will actually vote?

@Temushopper even if they did, the small amount that voted theyd just take that as the result and come out with some rubbish "well everyone had the option to vote if they wanted to" or something like that

@Temushopper it might its unlikely to ever happen, you see on news some people are loyal to conservatives no matter what they do so pointless to speculate

In my recent local mayoral election only 36% of the constituency voted. The winner had 51% of that vote. Had more people voted that might have had a better outcome for the winner, or had a different winner.
make your vote count

You think if every single person in the country who currently doesn’t vote went and spoilt their ballot instead that wouldn’t send any kind of message/wouldn’t be picked up by the press as a thing?

@ScarletWitchM I get what you saying but I used one of those websites and it said conservative and there is no way I am voting conservative when they are facing no consequences over what they have done

People think voting them out will do anything? Rishi Sunak is a billionaire! They earn more in 6 months than I do in 50 years

They wont ever feel any real pain they are too rich too.

Spoiled ballots / votes still have to be counted - so even if you go and spoil the paper it is more of a protest than not voting at all

Yes, as a woman the fact we are able to vote thanks to the women before us that fought for this right (including my great, great grandmother who was a suffragette) means that even if you spoil your ballot, you should still use your vote.
vote tactically if you need to - there are numerous websites to check how to do this for your constituency. But don’t waste your democratic right

@TheOneWithUnagi and I vote for them it doesnt change anything because the country just seems to think its best to keep switching between labour and conservative every 10-20 years....

@TheOneWithUnagi It doesnt matter. £500 to them is like 5 pence to me its nothing. As I said voting is a pointless waste of time.

Vote for one of the smaller parties then. Unless they get a certain % of the vote they lose their £500 deposit.

No point in voting

Yep! Complete waste of time, may as well just stay at home.

No there is no point in voting. I hate the conservatives but the only reason Labour is winning is because the conservatives are hated over what theyve done.

I would consider voting again if we had a possibility of not just being labour or conservative. The country needs to dry something different. Yes I dont get spoiling ballot paper either, wasting your time no one cares like the government dont

Whoever gets in, I will still

• Struggle to heat in winter
• Not afford a yearly holiday
• Have to work long hours full time
• Be taxed to pay for people who have children when I am single and get no help
• See people in government make the same amount of money I will make in 10 years in like 6 months.

Look at what's happened over the last few years, PMs breaking their own rules, crashing the economy and yet they are all too rich to feel any real pain from it.

All this spoiling the ballot paper nonsense - I’ve been at counts, trust me, no one gives a shit.

Yes. We've always voted

I haven't bothered since the 2017 election. I am open to voting and will read all the manifestos but I haven't seen anything worth voting for so far.

There's no way on God's green earth I'll be voting Conservative though. Everything that's happened since 2016 is unforgivable.

Nope. I havent voted for the last 10-15 years. I hate them all with equal measure and i dont want any part of it. Yes i know my vote could influence things but if everyone is as bad as each other then the only way i can live with myself is to stay out of it.

I am on holiday so have applied for a postal vote, just hope it comes in time before I go

wouldn't occur to me not to vote.

I'm 61 and haven't missed voting before. The choice has usually felt easier than it does this time around
It's not due to a lack of motivation in any way but that there feels to be very little option to improve the current situation
It looks as if it may be a case of following this advice and work out what the most important issue(s) is to me and vote for who best meets that criteria if not all

They've explicitly ruled out coalition with Cons and Reform.

Same here
I applied for postal vote a few years ago
So just waiting for the post to arrive.

Yes, I've not missed a vote in 50 years. You have to think of it as taking a bus not a taxi ie voting for the party which is moving in the general direction you want. No one is going to agree with everything a party puts in its manifesto

So eg better support for the NHS, or abolishing fire and rehire, or taking buses and trains into public control.

Not Tories for me or Lib Dems (if push comes to shove, as they will support the Tories on past evidence.)

100%. I always vote. Although admitedly in the last election I stood in the polling booth trying to decide where to put my cross for ages.

I meant I'm in another country, not in UK. I can see I wasn't particularly clear with that though! Yeah, we have local and euros here today. Not as exciting as GE but still!