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To ask who you are voting for?

543 replies

I5itm3 · 29/06/2024 20:35

Labour
Tories
Lib Dem
Green
Reform
SNP (Scotland)

And why?

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OperationGoldDawn · 29/06/2024 22:06

LakeTiticaca · 29/06/2024 21:18

Everyone should cast a vote. A spoiled paper is a wasted vote. There is no point in wasting a vote then complaining that nothing has changed

pritty much the story for a good percentage of the uk population

ImperfectAlf · 29/06/2024 22:06

GreyCarpet · 29/06/2024 21:07

I've decided I'm spoiling my ballot.

I won't vote Tory and I can't vote Labour. I'm certainly not going to give them my vote and have them think I'm OK with their anti woman agenda. Because I'm not.

Lib dems and Greens don't want my vote so that's an easy decision.

I'm also politically homeless.

I had to check I didn't write this myself!

My friend says it's not worth turning up just to spoil a ballot.

I'm so conflicted

Jaydafran · 29/06/2024 22:05

Im loving how Starmer has lost voters by going woke around gender issues.

viktoria · 29/06/2024 22:05

Labour
Because they are the only reasonable option against the Tories. And I like Labour's manifesto and what they stand for.
And to all the single issue voters "can't vote Labour because Labour don't know what a woman is".... really?
You don't care about austerity, how poor people have been vilified, how much homelessness has grown under the Tory rule, how food banks are now a common sight, how the rich have become so much richer and the poor have become so much poorer? You don't care about that?
Instead you just repeat ad nauseam the same boring old line.

Hellohah · 29/06/2024 22:04

I don't actually want to vote but I will.

I'm in a very safe Labour seat, so won't influence anything but I do think there needs to be a shake up. I don't think they're the ones to do it, and as my vote won't affect anything in my constituency, I'm voting Reform. I hope if they get a significant number of votes, it might give the 2 main parties a kick up the arse.

I've got very little political knowledge, so might be talking out of my arse. But there you go, it's my reasoning.

LookingForwardToSunshine · 29/06/2024 22:03

@DuesToTheDirt I'm on the south coast. My local MP is Desmond Swayne.

Perfectlystill · 29/06/2024 22:03

As a woman I cannot vote Labour. So I will be holding my nose and voting Tory

IAmADancer · 29/06/2024 22:01

Conservative:
Women’s rights are central to my voting and I don’t trust labour with it. I don’t want biological males in women’s spaces or to be told women can have a penis. I’m also sick to death of men telling women how to be women. Women

Defence spending - Sunak has committed 2.5 of GDP by 2030 which I think is critical. Starmer has said he will commit but has given no timescales

Private schools - I completely disagree with the 20% VAT and feel it’s the politics of envy

NHS - needs reform not more money pumped into it. I think people need to take greater responsibility for their health and the choices they make. Although I do like Wes Streeting’s stance on the NHS but not enough for me to vote labour

needsomewarmsunshine · 29/06/2024 21:58

Not going to vote, never do, the main parties are shite, the smaller parties haven't a hope and no party ever kept their election promises.

DuesToTheDirt · 29/06/2024 21:57

@LookingForwardToSunshine I don't know where you are, but I'm in Scotland. I have voted Green many times but the Scottish Greens are now completely batshit and it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for them again.

Inmydreams88 · 29/06/2024 21:55

Labour.

But I feel like nothing will change really either way. Nothing will bring my £222 council tax bill down, Childcare won’t be any cheaper, NHS will likely take years to improve.

Jifmicroliquid · 29/06/2024 21:55

Conservatives, though it was probably the first time I’ve really struggled with that.

Labour getting in will be a disaster for this country. And for women.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 29/06/2024 21:55

JaneVtwaddle · 29/06/2024 21:52

I really wanted to vote Labour, I'm a swing voter.
I absolutely cannot now his behaviour has come to my attention.

I just don't know.

Who’s behaviour and what behaviour do you mean ?

CheerfulBunny · 29/06/2024 21:54

Who's asking? I'm always suspicious and cynical about political posting on here. I don't want my opinion 'harvested' because I'm in some sort of demographic. If you belong to some shitty think-tank, do one.

DoreenonTill8 · 29/06/2024 21:53

Sunak is rich and privileged and leads a party who doesn’t govern in the interests of all citizens.
Which party governs in the interest of all citizens?

JaneVtwaddle · 29/06/2024 21:52

I really wanted to vote Labour, I'm a swing voter.
I absolutely cannot now his behaviour has come to my attention.

I just don't know.

Allthegoodnamesaregone1 · 29/06/2024 21:50

tobee · 29/06/2024 21:46

Op did not include

Plaid Cymru

And no one has mentioned it yet.

I live in Wales and it's an absolute No from me.

I'll be voting Green

BeeandG · 29/06/2024 21:50

I'm undecided for the first time ever. I can't bring myself to vote Labour but I'm not sure the Conservatives deserve my vote. But I will vote and certainly not spoil my paper.

LookingForwardToSunshine · 29/06/2024 21:50

DuesToTheDirt · 29/06/2024 21:33

Nobody.

Labour - women's rights
Tories - the many things they have done in the past 14 years
Lib Dem - women's rights
Green - women's rights
Reform - racist right-wingers
SNP (Scotland) women's rights

Oh and we have an independent - no stated position on women's rights, but they think that "climate change has always existed" and shouldn't be a priority.

You've articulated my thoughts exactly. Still thinking if voting though. Currently try to decide between Conservative, Lib Dem and Green....

FOJN · 29/06/2024 21:49

Party of Women. If there wasn't a POW candidate in my constituency I'd spoil my ballot.

Jaydafran · 29/06/2024 21:49

Staplerandstappler · 29/06/2024 21:48

Sunak is rich and privileged and leads a party who doesn’t govern in the interests of all citizens.

I’m sure Starmer isn’t badly off financially but he’s nowhere near as wealthy as Sunak.

He doesn’t govern currently, but he at least appears to give a shit about ordinary citizens.

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Sunaks only super wealthy through marriage.

Dita73 · 29/06/2024 21:48

Party of Women. Luckily we have a candidate. If we didn’t I wouldn’t be voting

Staplerandstappler · 29/06/2024 21:48

Jaydafran · 29/06/2024 21:42

How is starmer any different to sunak in that regard?

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Sunak is rich and privileged and leads a party who doesn’t govern in the interests of all citizens.

I’m sure Starmer isn’t badly off financially but he’s nowhere near as wealthy as Sunak.

He doesn’t govern currently, but he at least appears to give a shit about ordinary citizens.

Jaydafran · 29/06/2024 21:47

whotochoose · 29/06/2024 21:46

I'll be voting for the Social Democratic Party because Reform are not putting a candidate forward in my area, the two parties have formed a pact not to go against each other.

Lifelong Conservative voter but will not be voting for them again based on their current makeup. And I cannot bring myself to vote for Labour, ever.

Rod Liddle?

tobee · 29/06/2024 21:46

tobee · 29/06/2024 21:46

Op did not include

Plaid Cymru

And no one has mentioned it yet.

I don't live in Wales