Would you vote Conservative at the next election?

Have not read any posts except OP. I've never voted Conservative and I won't start now. Pleased with their stance on reform of the GRA, not pleased with anything else they've done (understatement). Would be pointless for me to vote Tory anyway. I live in one of the safest Labour seats in the country. It would take a political earthquake for my MP not to be re-elected. My one vote won't change anything. I continue to vote anyway.

At the last general election I voted Green purely because the local candidate was GC and brave enough to say so. My MP is not. I met her (at her invitation, following an email I sent her) to discuss some of my concerns and was dismayed at her lack of knowledge on this issue. However, she is a good constituency MP and appears to be doing good work with her front bench brief to which Starmer promoted her after his appointment. She was never a Corbynite, doesn't belong to Momentum, and yet managed not to get deselected. I can only assume she is very astute politically.

If (and it's a very big if) Starmer moves away from identity politics and supports leaving the GRA as it is (too much to hope that anyone will promise to repeal it, I feel) and tightening up what happens at the Tavistock, I would start to feel I might be able to vote Labour again, because I have no doubt she would change her tune to keep in with Starmer. Otherwise, no.

@Helmetbymidnight I struggle to see what labour would have done differently re covid. It’s not like they would have started closing borders in February, if you are referring to lockdown delay it’s a bit deluded to think it would have made any difference. Many people don’t mind a hard brexit, or even want one. Re racism it doesn’t seem any more racist than other parties, I’m not sure what makes you think it is. I’m not sure I’d call it open minded to consider defecting to the tories but pretending that labour is any different is deluded, they’re just two different brands of more or less the same thing.

No, I wouldn't because they are a shower of lying bullshitters.

However, if we were going purely on how misogynistic either side were, then I would say that the left were more misogynistic, despite Owen Jones and his ilks declarations of how 'passionate' they are about women's rights.

Yes. Mainly because of the shit show of the SNP and their absolute blatant hatred and disregard for women and girls. And from a party with a female leader, abhorrent!

Probably not tbh. I'd love to go back to voting Labour but Starmer needs to stop indulging the loud minority of members pushing their liberation groups & shitty anti-Semitism. Hopefully than trans pledge will sink without trace since two of the people who wrote it were accused of being sex pests on twitter this weekend. Some of the young women coming forward said they hadn't done so earlier in case they were accused of transphobia.

I tend to vote Tory more often than not. I don’t think I will next election. I don’t have any confidence that the Tory party is more economically competent than what Kier will be able to cobble together for the next election. Nor do I think either party will be particularly better on women’s (or anyone’s rights). If there was a liberal party I would vote for them but there isn’t, without that option, and in the absence of any Marxist nonsense, I don’t see enough of a difference to care really. Might just not vote.

Yes I would consider it. A good friend if mine is a Tory MP and is an out gay politician and has received nothing but support from his party for years. I often talk to him about things that he sees going on behind the scenes. Very interesting.

Perhaps if Starmer starts to seriously get hold of the extreme crazy wokeness within his party (Dawn Butler and Lisa Nandy I'm looking at you) I would happily return to Labour.

I normally vote Lib Dem but they lost me years ago.

Not quite sure yet, but it would depend on the candidates, how far the current Conservative government has strengthened and protected women's rights, what is in the manifestos of all the parties etc.

I'm in Scotland, so could vote Conservative in either the General election or the Holyrood one. I have never voted for them before, but I'm willing to consider it.

I'm sick of women's rights always being last in the queue and viewed as easily disposable in favour of other issues. Other policies can always be protested and opposed and reversed. Once women's rights are lost, they will likely be lost for good or a very long time. It will be very hard to get them back because it will be framed as a great violence and infringement of human rights for trans people. I mean, all this current government has done is say 'hey we won't reform the GRA just now but keep things as they are.' and there's a huge wailing and shrieking about trans rights being rolled back and how trans people will now need asylum elsewhere. 🙄 How much more disingenuous can they get?

Once women's rights are lost, I think the only way they will sort of come back is if a party that is more right wing than the Conservatives will stand at elections and claim to be willing to protect women.
Just like all the parties ignored issues and concerns around immigration until people started voting UKIP, I think something similar will happen for women's rights. Once they are lost, all the parties will ignore the ramifications and concerns of the general public. Then a party with more right wing credentials will talk about 'protecting our women and children again' and people will start to vote for them out of frustration. And that's a slippery slope because then all sorts of crazy things can happen (like Brexit).

So better to find more moderate ways of ensuring women retain their rights to single sex spaces instead of waiting for something bigger to detonate in response to the trans lobby. Because then we're all fucked.

Yes I would

Yes, If a Conservative candidate was likely to keep the SNP out , yes. In practice this means I vote Conservative in Holyrood elections and Lib Dem in Westminster elections.

I have no idea, its really hard

We live in an extremely safe tory seat so they will get in whatever (boundries were changed in the 70’s to ensure a tory vote so they might change I suppose)

We voted tory, if we voted at all for many years. I voted lib dem in 2015, and 2017 (i think) but obviously whats her face said that they didn’t want votes from people like me...and i am very helpful so I didn’t vote for them In 2019...neither did dh or ds1

Tory husband loathes this current government as do i so I really can’t see us voting for them...maybe labour if Keir manges to change some of the issues?

Long post to say ‘fuck knows’

Yes. I have and I will do again. I despise labour and the left and the way they treat women. A liberal leftie I am not and never will be.

I don't think I could vote against women's rights so that rules out L, LD and G. However I think single issue politics is a dysfunctional state of affairs (see abortion in the US and of course there's flavours of the same in Brexit) so I am really stuck and questioning myself. Feel very unrepresented as someone who cares about much more than WR, but at the same time can't put my tick in the box for anyone who is actively supportive of dismantling them.
Its a barmy state of affairs. I found myself agreeing with an article online the other day then saw it was from the 'Conserbative Woman' website. That is equivalent to the universe turning inside out for me.

its fascinating to see that despite their handling of covid, despite the continuous stream of lies and cover-ups and racism, despite heading for a hard brexit, people feel that voting for them is keeping an open mind

No.

Yes, I would consider it. I am in a safe Labour seat though so it would just be a protest vote.

Yes I would. Similar to you I've voted mainly labour and once or twice Lib Dem.

This is such a crucial issue and could affect my daughter lives so much. If Tories were the only party to support women's rights they would get my vote.

Absolutely not. They have 60,000 lives on their conscience.

yes, I would - although i like Kier Starmer but it does depend on whether he comes out for women and girls. 4 years is a very long time though, anything could happen.
There is so much infighting in labour at the moment , they could not run a government so they need to sort that out and imo they would be wise to lose a lot of their young/ student membership as I feel that holds Keir back as he wants to keep them on board.
i am a swing voter but normally vote labour

No but I can’t vote labour, line dem or green atm either so am politically homeless like so many.

Also don’t get me started on the so called women’s equality party....

No. I voted Conservative in the last election for exactly those reasons and in the absence of a credible opposition from any party. At local level it’s possible to campaign for the things I was uneasy about to change (poverty, inequality in public services etc).
I am horrified at the way they are handling the Covid crisis, however. It’s not a Tory stance to be actively incompetent, even if you disagree with their approach to some issues. The scientific advice was there for them and they ignored it. That, for me, shows they are no longer a party I can support ever again while in their current form and, very reluctantly, I am going to have to put the feminist principles I was trying to protect last time at the bottom of the list next time.

Yes, I would consider voting Conservative again. I always keep my mind open going into an election and always vote for the policies that line up with my own beliefs. I do not blindly vote for one particular party as many do.

At this current point in time I feel I would be more likely to vote Conservative or Lib Dem than Labour.

At the end of the day I don't believe any political party cares about the people within the country. It is one huge popularity contest built on lies from every party. It is a game played to win at any cost.

Never while Johnson is around.

Can't get my head round how people voted for a guy who was known to lie to just about everything to just about everybody - and then wonder why we have been lied to all through this crisis?

From a feminist point of view there is no one I feel I can vote for, but I've never not voted. It's awful, no idea what I will do when the time comes