With local elections coming up, will you vote and why?

I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18, but this is the first time I honestly feel like there isn’t a party I can support. I’m completely unsure what to do.

Yes I’ll vote. It’ll be for the party I want to do well at a GE. It’s an indicator of support.

Yes. I always vote. I believe that you cannot complain about the government/governance etc if you do not use your vote.

Also politically homeless, I will be voting tactically to keep the twin threats of Reform and the Greens out of power.

I always vote, out of respect to the women who fought so hard to enable this.

I'll vote locally as I did in the General Election, for Labour, because although I'm really rather fed up with them at present, I think they're the best we've got. I actually feel for Keir Starmer, who I believe to be a decent person - I think his lack of charisma is the major issue: look at how much people put up with from Johnson, just because he was amusing....

I never not vote - and personally think it should be legal that everyone who can, does vote.

LibDems hold about 70% of local council seats with Tory being 25%. I'd usually vote green but this time will vote LibDems to try and make sure reform don't get a look in, though judging by the flags around the last couple of years I think they won't be kept completely at bay.

I always vote as I feel it is a duty. I will vote for whoever is most likely to keep Reform out, which for me will be Lib Dem. Morally, I find it hard to support any of them.

Yes, I vote.

This is, at a minimum, to honour the incredible efforts and sacrifices of Pankhurst and others that mean I have that opportunity and to recognise that many, many others around the planet cannot vote.

Due to a last minute opportunity to be a poll clerk, I can't vote this week because I'll be at another polling station 6am - 10pm +. I was unexpectedly offered the job of poll clerk after the deadlines so cannot not organise a postal/proxy vote.

Since I am facilitating voting for others, I feel less bad about not actually voting this time.

Yes. Always. Lib Dem to keep reform/Tories out. Labour would be my preference but it’s a wasted vote here.

Yes, that's in contrast to many council members like social workers and safeguarding heads who are able to keep their names out of any care home scandal in the papers, and often aren't even named. I think in my area - Surrey - they are able to pay to make their names invisible, some of the show up a lot on duckduckgo and hardly at all on Google.

But then within their own remit, these types enjoy more power than MPs anyway, who are often just lobby fodder.

I do agree it's odd that MPs should have to publish their exact address given everything - maybe the reasons some of them like to claim for a spare pad in London?

The reform candidate did not list their address which whilst totally legal is something I alway check

See, I always think it really odd when candidates DO list their private home address. It shows a real lack of awareness IMO. NO-ONE who works in a public facing role should EVER have to reveal the private address of where they and their family live. We've had two MPs murdered by stabbing in recent years., and more and more people feeling emboldened to make threats of so many things. There was a news report earlier this week about trading standards officers being terrorised and followed home and having threats made against members of their families - even their children. I think it is a ridiculous idea that anyone who works in a public facing role should ever have to publish their home address.

Looks like it between Conservative and green for my seat, though more because the conservative vote has gone to reform. In doing so they're likely to get a green councillor.

I'm not a conservative voter at all but they are the incumbent and a good local voice, so will go for them.

I’ll be voting for an independent candidate, he’s been great over the years, was on the council a few years ago back and lost his seat but has kept up campaigning on local issues.

we’ve only had material through from him and reform.

I'll be voting for the best candidate for our area. He's a Lib Dem, which isn't who I'd usually vote for, but he is interested in, and works hard for the local community, which is what these elections are all about

I'll be voting to keep Labour out. I cannot vote Green so it will prob be Libdem or Reform.

I feel like it's my duty to vote, as a mother to daughters. However I think all parties are the same. I used to think they were all the same as in they were all trying their best, but now I think they are all the same as in all as corrupt and self serving as each other.

Really struggling. My area is Green and Tory neck and neck. I used to vote Green but with Zack Polanski then seem to have gone barmy. I must vote but will have a look at Labour and Lib Dem’s.

I've already voted by post.

We have a brilliant local Labour MP and a brilliant local LibDem county councillor. So you be voted LibDem but at the GE I will almost certainly vote Labour.

ETA unless it looks like Reform will win in our area, in which case I'll vote for whichever party is most likely to beat them

No option for voting where I live but if there wereI would vote in the hope of keeping Reform out. I wish Ed Davey would step down as feel Lib Dems might stand more of a chance if he left( took his tarnished legacy with him).I am really worried that Reform/ Tories will gain more power. Am aware Labour could do better!

I'll vote in a probably futile effort to keep Reform out. It's a real shame, because we have some excellent local independents who have actually made positive change in our community, but the flagshagging racists are loud.

Wales here and I am voting conservative. Our ‘’first on the list’ conservative candidate is a pretty sound person and I want to send a signal of support to Kemi Badenoch as she’s a rare example of an intelligent principled politician. She’s been outspoken against the horrific rise in racism to Jews.

Greens are cesspits of anti-Semitism and misogyny, and Plaid much the same. Not voting for them.

Yes I’ve already sent my postal vote.
I don’t fully agree with any of the parties. I’ve voted Labour. The councillor lives near me and does get involved in local issues which directly affect me. The reform candidate did not list their address which whilst totally legal is something I alway check. I want to ensure that they actually have a vested interest in making where I live as nice as possible.
Likewise the Green candidate, no address listed so they could allow absolutely anything to destroy where I live, I also do not want more and more punishments inflicted on motorists. I say this as someone who walks almost 4 miles a day to and from work.
I’ve seen their batshit ideas about preventing traffic from getting from A to B and I don’t agree with it.

I always vote. We have a significant local issue going on so I will be voting for the independent councillor who is present and hardworking for our area. Even if that wasn’t the case, I will be voting my socks off to limit the damage which is looming from Reform

Also, I don’t want them to change because of feedback-I want them to actually state (and live by) principles ,values and policies that aren’t nebulous.

I’ve voted Labour all my life, but the party has turned so much more right wing on certain issues that I can no longer justify it. It’s tragic. They may as well be middle of the road Tories.

I live in Conservative-led Surrey and will be voting to facilitate a Tory defeat so they are not running the Council any more. This is because Surrey County Council's adult safeguarding team launched a campaign of bullying and harassment against me after I took a care home that nearly killed my Mum to the press over 10 years ago - the same bastards are in charge even now. Last year I sent a round robin to all the County Councillors, scores of borough councillors and loads of journalists about what they did and why - I'd also twigged they were trying to kill Mum off via dehydration, though I'm not sure passive euthanasia is even illegal in this country. Nobody replied.

I'd taken the issue to my then MP Chris Grayling - we had three meetings with him - and I found him devious though not initially, it took a while to catch on. He turned petulant when eventually I lost patience with him. I'd voted for him in 2014.

Sadly the new Lib Dem MP Helen Maguire hasn't done anything about it either and I think I was being breadcrumbed on the issue.

I'll be voting Lib Dem and Green, one each, this week. Signs are it will hand over to Lib Dem, Labour don't stand a chance here, never have. I would vote Labour otherwise, seems to me they're trying to make the country less corrupt and fairer after 14 years of the Tories.

That all said, I'm not even sure social workers get the sack even with a change of party control, they seem to have diplomatic immunity.