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Local elections 2018 - mass protect vote?

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Mner · 19/03/2018 09:20

I know a few others are struggling on who to vote for in these upcoming elections. All of the left wing parties are ignoring women's rights, even the Women's Equality Party has abandoned us. I am not voting UKIP and too left wing to vote Tory.

I thought we could potentially do a protest vote en masse...?

We could draw a box for an additional party on the ballot paper and write/vote for "the Women's Protest Party". Maybe in a red pen so it is really obvious...?

We could even go to the press with it beforehand and say that xxx people across the country are planning on spoiling their ballot papers in May by writing Women's Protest Party on their papers? With a strapline e.g. of We support transrights but refused to vote for any party who wilfully ignores our biology...?

What do you think? If we are going to go to the press with it, we would need some way of recording the number planning to do it... (just thinking like the @mayday4women twitter account getting women to resign en masse). I would be happy to collate the names or is there another way we could it...?

Any thoughts?

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GabeIsShocking · 19/03/2018 09:31

I am not voting labour again. There is nobody else to vote for.I will likely spoil my ballot. I will not vote for any party again that doesn't apologise to us for the way they behaved. I will never again vote for the big players in this. If someone like Raynor ever went for leadership of the party I would not vote for her as a result of her failure as shadow minister to hold the government to account on the trans issue and her investment in that Facebook group.

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Mner · 19/03/2018 09:26

I always vote, have never done a protest vote and am even a green party member (although not for much longer) but I cannot vote for any of them when they are not listening to us

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SwearyG · 19/03/2018 09:23

DH and I are spoiling our ballots in May. It sickens me to do so but there isn’t an alternative is there? We’d be totally on board with a mass movement.

We were thinking of XX in all the women’s boxes and XY in all the men’s. And then writing something like Sex Not Gender across the paper. Or women don’t have dicks.

I think something coordinated could be really effective.