Who are you voting for

Spoiling your ballot is absolutely pathetic and you cannot moan about the state of things unless you vote. Bizarre thinking to spoil a ballot. Vote tactically to get the tories out.

How is the suggsstion to vote tactically any help here? Getting the Tories out means getting someone else in. I hate the Tories and would love to have a sensible centre-left party to vote for, which doesn't have policies to which I am strongly ideologically opposed. Unfortunately there isn't one. Lib Dems always win where I am anyway.

But what if none of the options is acceptable to you?

If all candidates were homophobic or racist for example, would you discount that and vote for the least bad?

Serious question, not trying to be goady.

Spoiling your ballot is absolutely pathetic and you cannot moan about the state of things unless you vote. Bizarre thinking to spoil a ballot. Vote tactically to get the tories out.

All women should vote - the fact that we don't is used against us

The other issues are important, which is why IMO downright abusive of Labour to hold us hostage over them.

My (councillor) independents are absolute shite, I'm not going to vote for someone who hasn't been seen or heard from in 4 years, until a shiny leaflet drops through my door at election time.

Local elections are always a bit more difficult as I want the best person on a local level, I'm not necessarily looking at this on a national level.

I have voted independents in the past, but locally the vast majority do little other than whinge and have little oversight.

I'd prefer to vote independent for the mayor, but we are where we are.

Please do vote - even if you just spoil your ballot, as spoilt ballots are counted. All women should vote - the fact that we don't is used against us 😞

I would suggest taking a step back - women's rights are a massive issue but so are the economy, the environment, the NHS, education in its forms and social issues - perhaps you could vote on those issues instead?

I will be voting Labour - they're not great on this issue but to me, they're better than the others on most other issues.

I don’t have a vote this time around but agree that SDP know what a woman is so if they were on the ballot I’d certainly be taking a close look at them

Thankfully we have independents for the local elections

I don't know. Where I live is a Labour stronghold with a Labour mayor. Not lib dem, for certain.

I'm in a woke, safe Labour seat. There's no SDP candidate. I can't bring myself to vote Tory. The Greens care more about gender identity than the environment, otherwise I would have voted for them.
So my 'choice' is to either not vote, or spoil my ballot.

Local elections (have 2 councillors) Labour and Lib Dem. Mayoral Labour.

I need to vote best of a pretty poor bunch, with a little bit of tactical. I am voting on important local issues.

I've voted lib Dem in the council elections because of their stance on local issues (against building a massive road for no reason apart from lining the current council leaders' mate's pockets)

There is no one I can vote for so I'm going to spoil my ballot and write in small letters "deeds not words" - sex is immutable and that until Labour start listening to women they will no longer have my vote. Or I might just draw a cock and calls and say that no women have these. All spoiled ballots have to be looked at by a small team usually including candidates so it may get the message across. I think many women will just not vote, but spoiling the ballot with a message shows that they genuinely lost your vote - it's not just apathy.

Tough one.

There are several definitely not (lab/lib/green) and one or two mights. (Independent)