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If a snap election is called, who will you vote for?

410 replies

NewNameJust4Today · 03/09/2019 06:11

This will be such a difficult election, as I reckon almost everyone will vote tactically.

I am a remainer, and was a traditional Labour voter, though that doesn’t feel like home any more.

I also voted no, but now find myself thinking independence might not be the worst option any more.

I will not vote for Johnston.
I like Jo Swinson, but her party will never be big enough to make a big difference.
Corbyn seems a principled man, but he is too far left for me and he’s not a leader - he is a divisive character.
Farage represents all I hate in politics.

I will be voting SNP,, for the first time in my life.

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JustAnotherPoster00 · 03/09/2019 11:21

Without assent from the monarch the 'alternative' government would be no more than people with no power meeting in a room, seems a bit pointless IMHO not bothered he wasnt there if Mc Donnell was tbh

Deathraystare · 03/09/2019 11:21

Don't know - they are all a shower of shite tbh. Fed up of the whole lot of them. Very angry because women died for the vote and now I don't feel that I could.

Very depressing.

Deathgrip · 03/09/2019 11:29

I have often voted labour in the past but they have come across as utterly incompetent under Corbyn

Yes, there’s absolutely no reason at all that a mainstream press run by billionaires would want Corbyn to come across as incompetent, is there?

Honestly, I am baffled that people just absorb this bullshit and then spew it back out.

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Justanotherlurker · 03/09/2019 11:36

Honestly, I am baffled that people just absorb this bullshit and then spew it back out.

Can tell its the run up to a possible GE, anyone who is critical of Labour must have been brainwashed by the right wing media.

It worked so well last time that this time it must work!

Deathgrip · 03/09/2019 11:41

Give over. Look at the actual analysis of media coverage - getting no coverage swiftly turns into perception of doing nothing

blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/eu-referendum/uk-news-coverage-2016-eu-referendum-report-5-6-may-22-june-2016/

The reason Labour made so many gains in the last GE is because during a GE campaign the media are obliged to give more equal coverage. Shame there’d be such a short lead up this time round.

AlunWynsKnee · 03/09/2019 11:43

Labour.

Katinski · 03/09/2019 11:47

I'm a labour supporter and previous voter, but CORBYN?

I'll abstain.

Frith2013 · 03/09/2019 12:30

Ill vote tactically as always, to try and get rid of our “sugar tits” Tory MP.

kjhkj · 03/09/2019 12:33

Lib Dem. Cannot vote for BJ and the brexiteers.

Frith2013 · 03/09/2019 12:33

And I don’t like personality politics. I think Johnson is a steaming pile of shite, but he’s not the Conservative party.

Corbyn seems to generate bad press whatever he does, but he’s not the Labour Party.

catzrulz · 03/09/2019 12:34

I'm in Scotland, always SNP.
Independence can't come quickly enough for me.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 03/09/2019 12:39

Whoever came second to our current MP, which would be Labour in this constituency. Corbyn is pretty much moderate left as we reckoned such things 30 years ago. I'm not thrilled with his IRA apologetics, but given that the Tories are grovelling to the DUP, those thieving no-necks...

BogglesGoggles · 03/09/2019 12:41

Tory - the least terrible option (that says an awful lot doesn’t it!).

Choufleur · 03/09/2019 12:44

Lib dem or green. They really need a pact to not split the vote.

PaddyF0dder · 03/09/2019 12:45

SNP.

Scotland needs to send a unified message.

pigeononthegate · 03/09/2019 12:46

Labour

littlestrawby · 03/09/2019 12:46

Honestly I'm flabbergasted that anyone would vote conservative with what is happening at the moment.

whiteroseredrose · 03/09/2019 12:47

#deathgrip. I think people say that Corbyn is Brexit not because of what he said (or didn't say) during the campaign but because of what he's been saying for decades. DH showed me a you tube clip with loads of his speeches. I'll try to find it when I get home.

historysock · 03/09/2019 12:47

Lib Dem. can't vote for either of the other two main parties-both as bad as each other in different ways-couldn't do it.
I am now at the point where I don't think it matters who we have any more-I don't trust any of them. I hate feeling like that.

ChickenyChick · 03/09/2019 12:49

Cannot believe I am saying this, but Conservative.

I was a Lib Dem, remain voter. But Brexit just needs to happen now,

MPs have voted against the only deal the EU will give the UK three times. So the deal is out.

So no-deal Brexit it is, it is what our MPs have (unwittingly?) engineered, and the awful BJ is the only one who can push it through.

After that, the chaos and upheaval, the UK can move on....

I just feel that Brexit simply has to happen

Kazzyhoward · 03/09/2019 12:52

Tory - the least terrible option (that says an awful lot doesn’t it!).

Have to agree - no viable alternative at all.

BelleCarig · 03/09/2019 12:53

Wouldn't ever vote Lib Dem after them propping up austerity for years - I personally find Jo Swinson's voting record on welfare and benefits abhorrent.

This may help:

https://voteforpolicies.org.uk

^^ not quite ready for any upcoming election but you can sign up to be notified when it is.
Removing the personalities from the frame which party's policy do you agree with?

lalag · 03/09/2019 12:55

Tory

ChickenyChick · 03/09/2019 12:57

BelleCarig, to me the election (if there is one) is about 1 single issue though

AudacityOfHope · 03/09/2019 12:58

SNP, every time until Scotland becomes independent, then I'll let myself look again at the other parties.

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