Are you voting in the next general election purely on the transgender issue?

That's alright. It's hard going.

You’re right. Sorry my mistake! I’m getting frazzled with the denials of women’s and children’s rights.

You have the tone of someone disagreeing with me while having the same opinion, I'm not sure what to say 😁

Yes

Oh dear. It’s not a single issue. Women’s and children’s rights are affected in many ways. Frankly I am ‘agog’ that others can’t or won’t see it.

Another poster put it quite well. Sorry PP I can’t find your name but if it’s you thank you!

My vote will be based on my desire to safeguard women and girls (and boys) basic rights, yes.

This is an issue of fundamental human rights and of my expectation to live in a society which recognises and upholds the basic human rights of women and girls, and which upholds safeguarding for children.

So I don't regard it as a ' single issue' but a fundamental human rights issue..

I think i will be voting based on the talk about withdrawing from the ECHR.

I'm still agog that posters consider women's rights, material reality, free speech, the vilification of heretical MPs, the disregard of healthcare principles and the consequential harming of children, the decimation of sports, the gender blundering in the prison service, the mangling of language generally but particularly in our institutions and thrust upon a generation of kids in their schooling a single issue?

Regardless of how you land when in comes to a general election.

‘Are you voting in the next general election purely on the transgender issue?’

If you mean are you voting on the women’s and children’s rights issue?

Yes.

No. I'm not a one issue voter and cannot vote for the Conservatives after Brexit, Truss and Boris.

I well remember sitting on the floor of a corridor the whole way of a long and very expensive journey to the North - during the time before the railways were privatised.

Also, Lord Beeching axed and wrecked swathes of railway infrastructure in the 1960s ( due to there not being enough money to run them)- all of course before privatisation.

So though the idea of re-nationalising the railways (and water) is certainly seductive, especially if you could sit again in the dining car with a a silver plated tea pot and a China cup and saucer, and bring back the glory of a much loved institution, it might not be easy to bring about the improvements everyone would so love to see.

No

I ve voted Tory many times in the past, Thatcher Major, i quite liked Cameron though i did vote LD in 2010.. all far more moderate than the current Tory party.

I understand the TWAW issues but its simply not enough for me n my DD (who is NHS) to even consider the Conservatives.

They ve wrecked everything, poverty DV health and dentistry all worse than in 2010.
They can't even keep tabs on migrants and failed to deport a known isis fighter from Libya and he went on to kill 3 people in Reading, shocking dereliction of duty.

Wales isn't even a separate country, so i don't understand why people bring them into it, they are very much controlled by what Westminster decides & they cannot be that bad, the Welsh have voted Lab back for over 25 years.

No I’m voting to get the Tories out and so I’ll vote Labour. Gender issues are way down my priority list at present. Also voting Labour in the London elections although that’s mainly to piss off all the right wing wankers like Susan Hall.

It's just odd that Starmer is just chucking so many votes away.

absolutely not - voting on all manner of policies mostly nhs and education! I am not saying its not important but its only one part of the current issues.

Yes. The railroading children on to the transgender path to mitilation is child abuse as far as I'm concerned.
Schools should be.cleared of transgender materials and activists. No other political group is allowed into schools 9so why they should.is a mystery to me.

Perhaps the question is, why can the Leader of HM Official Opposition not clearly say that sex is immutable and it matters, and give us a credible Party to vote for gladly?

Interesting, thanks.

If it could be a close run thing between the Tories and the Lib Dems in my constituency, a spoiled ballot could tell the Lib Dems exactly why they lost my vote, whereas a vote for the Tories wouldn't.

Here's a question then.

If nobody strongly believes that any particular party is capable of turning things around, why all the emotional blackmail to get the Tories out at any cost?

I don't expect everyone to agree with me and am not sure where I said that (in fact, I'm encouraging people to vote, regardless of whether or not I agree with them). I am discussing and challenging people, and being challenged in return, which is fine and expected, especially on a political thread.

I am not being rude or insulting to anyone so I'm not sure why you accuse me of 'hectoring' anyone.

I'm simply responding to posts and stating my view, because that's what a discussion forum is for.

A lone parent of a SEN child and you think the Tories are the best bet? Is your grasp of history not very good by any chance.

YOU believe there is always a less bad option. Not everyone here agrees with you this time around.

You get your vote, to use (or not) as you wish. You, and the other hectoring posters, don't get anyone else's votes, so leave us to do with ours as we will and we'll afford you the same courtesy.

No. I don’t actually trust any of them on gender ideology as yet. The tories would say the moon is made of cheese if they thought it would get them more votes. Labour have been flip floppy but I have to vote for them to get the tories out so I just have to hope for better things to come on the what is a woman question.
There have been a few cross party mps who have championed women who I admire very much so there is right on both sides in that degree at least.
Obviously would never touch greens with a mouldy barge pole, would not consider lib dems as I still remember the treacherous coalition.

Spoiled ballots ('rejected ballots') are adjudicated by the A(RO) in the presence of the candidates and their agents.

Rejected ballots are currently divided into four sub-categories - want of official mark; voting for more than one candidate; writing or mark by which the voter could be identified; unmarked or void for uncertainty. These are published as part of the election results.

In some city council elections in my area, wards have been won or lost on a handful of votes. There have been hung councils. I know that the Lib Dems, for example, pore over results and data in their target cities and regions - it was one of the tricks that Chris ('Lord') Rennard really pushed hard on. Street by street analyses. Gradually taking over Councils.