I want to use my vote

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Hoping some of you may have some good advice on how to get my head around who to vote for. I've tried and tried to understand politics but I just can't seem to get it. I think I prefer conservative but I'm not even sure what I'm basing that on.

There are so many different names of people who I've heard, like Corbin, Boris etc but I genuinely don't know what they stand for. Am I right in thinking I either need to choose labour or conservative?

Maybe I'm a little too late and am a helpless case. My family were never interested and have never bothered to vote but I really feel like I should use mine as every vote counts.

I have always thought that leaving the EU was the best choice for us, I don't know why, I just do really

Give me strength. Vote for who you want, as is your right. But at least bloody give a shit about what you're voting for.

@KnowBetterDoBetter there's no need to be so rude. It's quite clear that the whole point of this thread is me trying to "give a shit" about who I'm voting for.

I commend you, OP, taking an interest in voting. If only more people were like you and used their vote.

I agree it's a minefield. Most of us find that our values doesn't align with one single party. Instead, we find that a handful of issues are really, really important to us, and vote accordingly. It might be saving the NHS, it might be staying in or coming out of the EU, it might be putting up the minimum wage or climate change or something else.

Sometimes, if we are paying close attention, we discover that the party we want to vote for has little chance of winning in our constituency. So we vote for a different party, so that we feel our vote really made a difference.

Brexit is an important issue for me, because leaving the EU is a final, irreversible, one-way ticket into the unknown. I like how Bimbleberries expressed it, suggesting a cautious approach:

If you don't really know why you want to leave, why you like the idea of no deal and all the problems that will come with that and/or the idea of the 10+ further years of trying to negotiate the trade deals for every aspect of the economy, then why push so hard for it now? Why not leave it as the status quo until some time in the future when there might be a better-thought-out plan for it all? Either reforming the EU from within, or a leaving plan that is put to the people, without the hectic deadlines of this one?