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What do you want to happen vs what you think will happen in your seat in the election?

91 replies

StraightenUpAndFryRight · 11/12/2019 22:16

I’m in a safe Labour seat and think it’s unlikely to change.

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Houseextender1 · 12/12/2019 08:54

I live in an area which has had the same mp for decades. Was labour, is now independent. Hopefully we can get him out and the new labour in. I fear people may be mixed up about voting for labour or his name.

vickibee · 12/12/2019 08:58

our MP Angela Smith was one of the labour defectors and is standing in Sale now as a LibDem. So labour won by 1500 votes last time but I have an awful feeling it is going to go Tory :( I cast my vote earlier and the polling station was busy for that time so it looks like a good turn out at least. Think it is one of the seats targeted by Boris - he had a high profile visit to our local shopping centre recently and was jeered by some and cheered by some, so who know ?

zoemelb · 12/12/2019 08:59

Remain constituency. Safe Tory seat previously even with a rubbish ERG MP. Hopefully Lib Dem MP will win this time and stays for good. She's a much better MP in my opinion.

weegiemum · 12/12/2019 09:08

Big SNP majority here and hope it stays that way.

OrangeTwirl · 12/12/2019 09:08

You could stick a red rosette on a dead donkey here and he'd win. "I'll vote Labour because my dad and grandad always voted Labour". Clowns 🤡

There is nobody I want to vote for tbh. All their manifestos are shit. Our Labour MP is fecking useless. Corbyn has delusions of grandeur. Other than that he has deliberately made himself unelectable because he knows he's not up to the job. The Tory MP standing is about 10. And then there's Johnson.... I think I have no choice than to spoil my paper.

MurrayTheMonk · 12/12/2019 09:12

Safe conservative seat. It will stay that way.
I'd like it not to.

moonlight1705 · 12/12/2019 09:12

A moderate Tory here but one who likes to lick the arse of any incoming PM. It will be him again although last time Labour were only about 5% of the votes under but not holding my breath.

Disfordarkchocolate · 12/12/2019 09:14

Safe Conservative here and to be honest he's a good local MP. He always toes the party line though, I'd love a little dissent.

I've met the Labour candidate, she'd need a hefty swing to win it, very involved in local matters but I don't see her as MP material.

vickibee · 12/12/2019 09:19

Our 1st past the post system disadvantages small parties. You may not vote for your favoured candidate as u believe they have no chance. Whereas Apr syetem seems more representative

longwayoff · 12/12/2019 09:24

I want 3,000 voters to say 'enough' and switch from Tory to LD. Anything to help prevent BJ forging ahead unstoppably.

Lessstressedhemum · 12/12/2019 09:32

I really, really hope the SNP hold here. Otherwise it's a dreadful, negative campaigning, Tory boy. The only issue addressed by the Tories here has been "stop indyref2" as if nothing else is going on🤯

KenDodd · 12/12/2019 09:36

I'm expecting a Tory majority. I think if the polls are wrong it'll only be that they've underestimated the Tory majority.

I despair! I just don't know what they'd have to do before people stopped voting for them. I saw someone on TV last week collecting food from a food bank because he didn't have money to feed his children and he was saying he was going to vote Tory!!! Ffs, the Tories have put you in a food bank unable to feed your children!

KenDodd · 12/12/2019 09:38

The only issue addressed by the Tories here has been "stop indyref2" as if nothing else is going on🤯

Not in Scotland but surely Brexit and the Tories is the biggest threat to the union of the UK?

KenDodd · 12/12/2019 09:41

Much biggest threat than the SNP anyway. As for NI the DUP have done more to enable a united Ireland in the last three years with their Brexit position than Sinn Fein have managed in 30 years of pushing for it.

Lessstressedhemum · 12/12/2019 09:43

You would think so, wouldn't you. The scary thing is that I live in the sectarian heartlands and a lot of people will be sucked in by the whole indyref thing. It's all "obey your Queen", no surrender idiocy hereSad
I am very much afraid the Tories might get in here for the first time in over 70 years.

Kuponut · 12/12/2019 09:49

Honestly - round here - no bloody idea! It WAS Conservative as a marginal, but then Sourbury flounced off to form whatever they're calling themselves this week... then all her mates left her rebel gang and went off elsewhere. Conservative candidate is a particularly vile specimen who came out with the corker that people only use food banks because they're no good at budgeting, Labour guy ran his last campaign on "I'm not Anna Soubury" and the Lib Dems aren't standing. Plus various other randoms on the ballot paper as well.

Was talking to one of the party agents outside when I went in to vote earlier and none of them have a bloody clue which way it's going to go!

I predict bickering, bitching, squabbling, more bickering over social media and no bloody clue who'll get returned at the end of the day.

Singlenotsingle · 12/12/2019 09:50

Safe Conservative seat. James Cleverly.

EntirelyAnonymised · 12/12/2019 09:50

I’m in a Con constituency. I would like it to turn Lab but I don’t think it will Sad

Skyejuly · 12/12/2019 09:52

Safe tory. Terese Coffey. Vile woman.

Singlenotsingle · 12/12/2019 09:55

Really, Labour must come up with a credible alternative. Currently, with Corbyn, Labour are unelectable. His Marxist background, friendship with the IRA, his backing by the Unions, the antisemitism scandal, plus people like Diane Abbott, mean that moderate people can't possibly want Labour. They might not want the Tories either but they're the lesser of the 2 evils.

YouRemindMeOfTheBabelfish · 12/12/2019 09:58

I'm in Redwood's extremely safe blue seat area.

But if not this election, then in one of the next few I think he could definitely be pipped.

The monumentally large extra housing numbers being built here have created such a massive influx of younger families and more ethnic diversity. Reds or Yellows here would make a massive difference after such a long reign from that Blue twat.

I'm crossing my fingers for Red or Yellow.

Damntheman · 12/12/2019 10:04

I mean.. ideally I want the mad-hatter independent to get in because he's the most sensible of the lost, but failing that because he usually fields about 400 votes each time I'd like the Labour candidate.

That said, it's 100% certain that the personalificaiton of Ebola that is our Tory candidate will get it (again), because the place has been Tory for so long that people have forgotten other options exist. Ugh so depressing.

evilharpyinapeartree · 12/12/2019 10:08

Safe tory seat, has been for years. Would desperately like him to go as he's just vile and his voting record is disgusting. But not hopeful.

Ravenrob · 12/12/2019 10:13

SNP marginal with Labour as the main competition. I think Labour can take it. I really hope so. We have a great candidate.

Damntheman · 12/12/2019 10:21

Perhaps we are in the same constituency harpy.. my MP voted against gay rights, I mean really..

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