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Would you vote Conservative at the next election?

342 replies

cheeseismydownfall · 23/06/2020 07:21

Obviously this question isn't really relevant if you vote Conservative anyway!

Over my 25-odd year voting history I have voted Lib Dem, Labour and Green. I consider myself left wing and would never have considered a Tory vote. But if the principle parties maintain their current positions on women's rights then for the first time ever I will consider a Conservative vote at the next election - not simply because this one issue trumps everything else (although I personally feel very strongly about it, education, health and the environment are still hugely important to me) but because I simply don't trust the critical thinking skills of any party who have allowed themselves to be so thoroughly hijacked by the trans rights agenda and attempt to silence dissenting voices.

Anyone else feel this way?

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IdblowJonSnow · 23/06/2020 09:22

"If they sort out this mess"

They caused this mess surely. It's estimated by scientists that if we'd locked down just one week earlier we'd have had over half the deaths that we've had.
I am pleased about the furlough scheme and the other types of propping up they've provided but it's not enough to make me vote for them.
Besides now we have Keir Starmer, Labour are now a much more convincing party again.

11stoneTess · 23/06/2020 09:20

Labour voter all my life (increasingly with a heavy heart and grave missgivings), but now consider myself a floating voter and will consider all parties at the next election - including the Tories.

I find myself becoming increasingly anti-woke and dont really know where that leaves me.

moonsnake · 23/06/2020 09:20

No.

I'm brown and a single mother. I do not have the luxury of voting based on a single issue.

I don't understand how you can call yourself a feminist and vote conservative.

HashtagLurky · 23/06/2020 09:16

The only certainties in this world are death, taxes and me never voting Tory.

WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo · 23/06/2020 09:15

God no. How anyone can look at Johnson and think 'yep, you get my vote'. Is beyond me.

And tbh there's more to running the country than ' the trans issue'.

I have bigger fish to fry such as the cuts to funding towards domestic violence charities and the fact that under this government thousands of women have remained in violent relationships because the benefit system and lack of state support has made it too difficult for them to leave.

WeeMadArthur · 23/06/2020 09:13

I have no idea who to vote for, really feel that women have been thrown under a bus. I know not voting isn’t an option but I just don’t know who I can vote for any more.

IntermittentParps · 23/06/2020 09:11

No. It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

babbaloushka · 23/06/2020 09:10

"women will be more promiscuous if Mr Blair comes to power."- Boris Johnson.

He's a disgusting, entitled misogynist, who demonstrably treats the women in his own life (RE lying and cheating) with the contempt and sexual deservedness that his attitude dictates.

whatswithtodaytoday · 23/06/2020 09:09

Absolutely not in a million years.

babbaloushka · 23/06/2020 09:08

"The real reason why Blackpool is buzzing with glamorous women is surely that they scent victory. It is not the great smell of Brut that makes John Prescott attractive. It is the whiff of power. With the fickleness of their sex, they are following the polls."- Boris Johnson

babbaloushka · 23/06/2020 09:08

Johnson also brought his admiration for "hot totty" into the office, pinning a Pirelli calendar to his desk, which featured nude photography, despite complaints from female colleagues.

AsTreesWalking · 23/06/2020 09:08

I will go the the poll, of course, but I'm afraid it's a spoiled vote for me Sad

babbaloushka · 23/06/2020 09:07

The reviews relied on words such as 'filly', 'chicks' and 'flapping kimonos' and were garnished with plenty of 'gearstick' gags ... There is talk of blonde drivers 'waggling their rumps,' his own superior horsepower 'taking them from behind,' aided by tantalising thoughts of the imaginary 'ample bosoms' of the female Sat Nav voice.- a summary of Johnson's reviews of "babe magnet" cars.

AsTreesWalking · 23/06/2020 09:07

No. But I wouldn't vote for the others either...

babbaloushka · 23/06/2020 09:06

"just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way."- Boris Johnson

DuDuDuLangaLangaBingBong · 23/06/2020 09:03

Hopefully by the time the next GE rolls around GRA amendment will be over and done with and we’ll all be able to vote for candidates based on a number of issues, not just this one.

I did spoil a vote in the locals recently, but I knew the candidate was safe so it wasn’t a particularly bold action. I wrote ‘Women’s Rights are for Female People’.

Took bloody ages compared to a cross. Scritch, scritch, scritch, scritch, scritch. Pencils can be very loud in a silent room!

DrudgeJedd · 23/06/2020 09:01

Update on the Labour sex pests, I've just seen that one of them has been booted as a rep for their uni Labour soc, more of this please Kier twitter.com/qmlgbtsoc/status/1274821153702514689?s=19

Binterested · 23/06/2020 08:59

Yes. They can say the word woman. It's a low bar but only they clear it at the moment.

I put this issue above all others.

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 23/06/2020 08:58

No. Utterly incompetent. Also won't forget that they brought up the whole nonsense idea of self ID. There's not actually a party out there I would vote for, and I feel quite strongly about voting.

wonderstuff · 23/06/2020 08:57

Conservative policies are consistently bad for poor people and therefore bad for vulnerable women. It's a tough one, but I'm hoping that after this shitshow we will get a labour government, which won't be perfect but better than the current situation. Women use public services more than men and they've been run into the ground by this government.
I'm in a super safe Tory seat so completely academic what I do.

IagoWithABlackberry · 23/06/2020 08:57

No. A Conservative MP might be more likely to look at the lists of the seventy billion genders or some assertion of the TRAs and roll their eyes. They'd have a new reason to say "The world is going to the dogs."
But they don't care about women. So long as "transphobia" is demonised as the root of all evils and unquestioning affirmation is seen as progressive, the Conservatives will fall in line. It would achieve nothing.

Chiochan · 23/06/2020 08:53

Yes I would consider it, for this reason. And I was brought up to be a Marxist and have been hard left all my life.
The contempt shown for women by the other parties has been one of the most shocking eyeopeners of my life.

doadeer · 23/06/2020 08:53

Never no way.

RHTawneyonabus · 23/06/2020 08:51

No. I’ve never been a Tory voter but I think previous Tory governments at least thought they were doing things in the best interests of the country.

This lot don’t give a stuff about the future of the country they are supposed to lead or it’s people. They are basically a bunch of grifters with no experience and I’m still shocked anyone votes for them.

Goyle · 23/06/2020 08:50

Like OP, used to vote Labour and Lib Dem. I live in a very safe Labour seat. My MP is all PR and no substance. I cannot vote Conservative because of many things. I cannot vote Labour or Lib Dem now because of their policies towards women, alongside many other things. Never a fan of Corbyn, now not very enamoured with Starmer tbh. I think the Greens are a bit wacky for me. I spoiled my ballot too.