To ask if you will actually vote?

Definitely. I would urge anyone who isn’t going to vote to consider voting but spoiling their ballot paper as this sends a message to the parties because spoilt ballots are counted and recorded as such.

Do not draw a rude symbol against one candidate as this counts as a vote. Simply put a line over the whole paper.

What can they achieve? Genuine question.

I always vote, even though my constituency is not in any way marginal.
It is our civic duty to vote.
We have no right to complain about any Government if we did not vote.
Above all, women died so that I could vote.

@Theweepywillow spoiling your vote indicates being committed enough to turn up, but disillusioned with the options. I think it's quite different from not showing up st all

I've always voted. This time, I may spoil the ballot. I feel politically homeless right now

Yes I always do. If I couldn't make a choice between candidates (highly unlikely, I always have in the past), I'd 'spoil' my ballot paper, as is my democratic right. Never forget this was hard won and not something enjoyed by many millions / billions of people on earth.

No. I’m on holiday but wasn’t planning to vote. I have a feeling our seat won’t change. I don’t support the party that has had the seat for 100 years. Most of politics is saying what’s wrong but not dealing with the issues effectively. We don’t have enough money to do much so there won’t be much change to anything. People are being duped and there’s no detail on how things will be done. Let alone how much it will cost. I love this idea of training people up to work in care homes! Why didn’t anyone think of that before? Maybe there’s an issue that no one wants these jobs so won’t volunteer for training? It’s just total rubbish from all of them and they haven’t earned my postal vote. Or any vote. When I can see a party that sets out detail, I might think again. Otherwise it’s another Brexit scenario. Vote for an idea not the detail of how.

I'm going to go, but spoil my ballot paper. My reasons for doing this are that I can't stand any of them, I can't stand where the world is going, there is no one talking my language or saying what I want to hear and they are all power mongering arse holes.

I know people died so I could vote, but times have changed and politicians are the lowest of the low, leading us all in the wrong direction, to our detriment and I want to say that to their faces and I do NOT want to pick one of them and stand by any of them.

Yes.

I don't know who to vote for yet but I will start researching and pick the lesser of the evils.

For me, to not bother my arse or spoil my paper would be lazy and disrespectful to the suffragette women who went before me.

Yes, not enthusiastic about any options, but there’s very clearly worse and less worse options. Can imagine Reform doing well because folk moan about Tories and Reform but don’t bother turning up

Of course, and I have a very low opinion of those who can't be arsed to.

The Tories devolving power to Labour in Wales is not, in any way, representative of what Labour can achieve with a full majority in government.

Yes.
There is a reason everyone wants to please pensioners, they actually vote. Demographics that don't vote get ignored.

In the absence of RON, spoiling your ballot is at least an active protest of a sort, albeit not a very useful one.

Yes, I would never give up my vote.

Yes, I’ll vote Labour

www.votenone.org.uk/uk-unheard-third.html

A staggering 34% of the electorate, doesn't vote. That is 15 million people if the electorate is approx 47 million. That is more than the 14 million complete and utter d*ckheads than voted for Boris in 2019.

Even with the 20 million votes wasted due to FPTP, your vote can still count if you vote to keep out a candidate you don't want.

And of course if 20 or 30 percent or more of the population think this it makes an enormous difference. Every single vote counts.

Soiling the Ballot paper is the very definition of not voting, what on earth are you on about. Voting is you select a candidate. Put your mark in the box and submit it, spoiling the paper is not voting.

Yes. It will be for the best of a bad lot, but yes.

I always voted, but I haven't decided if I will yet.
I live in a very very safe Labour seat, so safe that the Conservatives aren't standing. So the choices are Workers Party of Britain, Lib/dems, Greens, Rejoin EU or Labour.
I expect 3 of them to loose their deposit, I'm just not 100% sure which 3

Yes, I will vote. As always.

BitOutOfPractice
And im going to say it. People who don’t vote are, to my mind, a bit pathetic. The “they’re all the same” schtick doesn’t wash with me either.

My neighbour spends ages debating and arguing about politics with randoms on FB - yet she doesn't vote. She's fond of waylaying me to talk about politics too but I resolutely change the subject even though I know it annoys her. Timewaster in all ways.

If you don't vote, you veto any right to EVER moan about anything in this country ever again!

Everyone should vote, even if you spoil the ballot paper as a protest to all candidates being shit!

I cant see the point a single vote never makes a difference to the eventual outcome so I’m being logical

I have felt this before (still voted but felt a bit futile) but this year the gap in forecasting has changed so much.
I’m excited this year that my vote counts that bit more!
Whatever your vote, vote… this year of ‘change’ more than ever 😊

Yes, of course.

I know someone who is in her 40’s and has never voted; she thinks it’s all a waste of time and ridiculous and is quite scathing of people who do. She has a tendency to talk absolute crap and think she knows everything about everything so I’m not surprised at her stance on voting.