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

I know this thread is about how we would vote in a General Election, but I think you're right, @DialSquare, to ask candidates for the local Council wards questions. It's looking like a close run contest in my ward with (reportedly) a low return rate of postal votes with only two days to go.

Elected Members of the Council become 'corporate parents' and it's very relevant to ask them about their attitudes toward children's safeguarding, for example. I wonder if some of them have heard of the Cass Report, let alone read it.

No, I couldn't be so self indulgent. There are a lot of people relying on getting this godforsaken government OUT.

And then what?

Who is going to step up and make your perfect political party then do all the hard work getting into power so they can govern?

Will you? Or are you sitting back wanting others to do the work for you?

I despair. Spoiling a ballot is exactly the same as not bothering to go and vote. Voting should be mandatory (like in Australia).

Funded by the religious right? If anyone on the religious right wants to fund a left leaning atheist who believes that sex is immutable, I'm amenable to a payout.

I certainly won’t vote for anyone who says some women have a penis, because that means they’re either an idiot or a coward.

I may have to vote Tory (for the first time in over 40 years), despite all the corruption and incompetence, if they are the only Party standing against the nonsense.

Definitely not. And I HATE my Labour MP , but I will vote for him ( whilst being a little bit sick in my mouth) and continue to harangue him on this issue, rather than vote for another Tory government.
People have died unnecessarily , and more will do so, due to this government, and voting for more of the same is a luxury option I’m afraid. The people I work with in the frontline public sector are on their knees. Something has to change.

You might want to take a look at how a labour government has been working for Wales (clue it's a shit show).

A spoiled vote is still a vote.

You’re voting for the status quo because you refuse personally to compromise. So much for society.

If you spoil your vote it won't stop any of those people being elected. One of them is going to be elected. Spoiling your ballot just means that your opinion won't count, and other people will decide.

Though since the ‘bus’, the amount spent on the NHS has increase by about double the amount stipulated in that slogan.

The NHS is a money pit.

Soooo is this thread on Twitter or fb yet to prove that FWR is full of evil right wingers who are funded by the religious right?

The finger wagging on this thread is off the chart.

If people want to spoil their vote then they are free to do so.

No. I am voting for whoever stands the greatest chance of getting the Tories out. The country is on its knees. There is nothing, nothing, that isn't a lot worse than it was in 2010.

No. My priority is preservation of the NHS and other essential services..

For me, any manifesto promises to support the NHS in this way fall in to the "it aligns with what we want to do, we didn't have access to all the figures and we've now realised that we can't" bucket.
It might work well as a slogan on a bus though...🙃

It should be illegal not to vote. For gods sake please use your vote.

I do have an opinion.

My opinion is that none of the people on my ballot paper are worthy of being elected to office.

So what should I do?

Spoil my ballot by voting for JK Rowling, or vote Tory to keep the Lib Dems out?

You know they have been in power for a long time right

I'm with you on this.

No. Because the Tories have set fire to the country. I wouldn’t vote for Dawn Butler due to this issue, but fortunately she’s not my MP.

It’s so far down my personal list of priorities it definitely wouldn’t be something that got my vote

at least Labour stand a chance of bringing back the NHS from the brink of destruction

How do they intend to do that? The NHS are still paying back over £2 billion per year for PFI Labour put in place when they were last in power?

I do think there should be a “none of the above” option on ballot papers so that we can see just how many people are politically homeless and choose to spoil, rather than them just being counted in with the people who make mistakes

I'm not 'looking for' any answer at all - the worst thing is when people spoil their vote or don't vote. If you have an opinion, whatever it is, then vote. If you spoil your vote/ don't vote, then you are effectively silent.

I don't buy the 'I spoiled my vote to make a point' argument. Spoiling a ballot is marginally better than not voting - but not by much.

So you've voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party twice, but this time you're voting Tory? Even though you will have no idea what they'll do?🤯