Islington North - who to vote for?

You could either spoil the ballot paper or not vote.

I am either going to not vote, or vote for the candidate that stinks the least.

I enjoyed 1997. Rapidly disillusioned thereafter, but it was a great relief to have the Tories out after even longer than their recent run - 18 years, although they'd only had two leaders in that time - slacking compared to recent times.

Can someone sum up why labour are a problem for gender critical women?

please don’t vote for Jeremy corbyn, friend of Hamas, jew hater. We need a cohesive leader right now, not more division and hatred.

I'm planning to sit up for the results (if I can stay awake). Retired now, so no need to worry about work on the Friday! Your result is one of quite a number I will be watching out for. Clacton, Rees-Mogg, Hunt, Sunak, Truss. There must be others.

Could be worse. We have one Independent and she appears to be an evangelical Christian church worker who believes the most important issue in the election is the rights of (quote) 'unborn people'.

We have a 24-year-old Communist who from his picture looks about 50. Apparently the Communists have a sane policy on gender, but I can't vote Communist.

My choice, realistically, is between our long-serving Labour MP, who is a decent, hardworking constituency MP who's worked hard on her Shadow Cabinet brief, but is on the fence about gender, and spoiling my ballot paper. She will win by a landslide no matter what I do, so in a sense it doesn't matter. It matters to me, though. I'm worried about Labour.

However, the main thing for me is that the Tories must lose power. What a choice, though.

Well, as Mr Josling fails to mention anyhting about actual policy in his lengthy ramble - my position has not changed! Thanks Gaspode

To me, Corbyn epitomises the self satisfied left. Quite how he thinks a vote for him will bring about peace in Gaza, I have no idea.

Agree. He seems to typify a certain type of left-wing man: ideological purity and optics above all else. These men seem especially to hate women. They exist on Twitter, mainly.

I'm afraid it doesn't look too promising ...

Re your Independent candidate, Paul Josling - found this on Twitter: https://x.com/SGrahamg5/status/1804462246984131038

I am also in Islington North. I am still undecided as to whether to vote Reform (as a protest vote) or whether to deliberately spoil my ballot. None of the other parties deserves my vote at the moment (although also no idea about the Independent bloke who isn't Corbyn). I am doing a bit to help Lesley Woodburn of Party of Women who is standing in Islington South.

the young people I know here are all voting for Corbyn due to his views on Palestine (and in protest of Starmer's approach to Palestine). But they aren't GC

Anywhere else I'd vote for a rightwing candidate - I used to be a lifelong leftie until the last few years but no more: the left is seriously unhinged and there is no course correction on the horizon yet. But in Islington, Corbyn is such a bastard that I'd hold my nose and vote Labour.

I think you need to stop Corbyn. I used to live in Islington North and he was my MP - I can’t believe I used to vote for him. He’s a disaster.

I have the same dilemma OP. I didn't know Corbyn was a fervent TWAW type. But then again I don't know what the labour candidate believes either, and I'd never vote Tory.

Corbyn usually has a giant majority, presumably that’s going to split into two with
Corbyn mopping up some Green-inclined voters and Labour mopping up some Lib Dems?
Corbyn might do well with Labour voters who are pissed off with Sadiq Khan and the Labour candidate/Starmer’s Labour might gain some left leaning Jewish voters who had abandoned the party in the Corbyn era.

The not-very-big Tory vote is going to split smaller, losing some votes to Reform.

If I lived in Islington North I’d probably spoil my ballot (although a win for Corbyn might have the unintended effect of making the PLP more terfy, in order to better distance themselves from the fringier left).

What’s the Labour candidate like?

At least your election is exciting!
I live in a vote-for-an-inanimate-object-wearing-a-red-rosette area of the NW, where the only sign of Labour’s dwindling support is lower and lower turn out. Not many people here like or trust Labour these but they can’t quite bring themselves to vote for anyone else.

I'd vote Labour.

I have had the same dilemma, but decided eventually that I had to vote to GTTO.

I'll continue to campaign on gender issues though. As a TERF I find this has been the most difficult election as far as choosing who to vote for. Really difficult.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but if your concern is about Corbyn winning then Labour it would be. In terms of any legislation regarding GRCs etc, every indication is that Corbyn would support the Labour line anyway, but with added Corbyn lunacy. And also smugness.