Can you sum up in one sentence why you vote the way you do?

[CurlewKate]

I’ve been thinking about why, I am, and always will be a Labour voter, despite being angered and frustrated by some of their decisions. It’s because I believe that “the circumstances of your birth should not dictate the outcome of your life” And that seems to me to be fundamental to Labour philosophy in a way it isn’t to any other party.

Tax

The alternatives are even worse.

I just like going in that little cubicle, which has a pencil on a bit of string.

I can't as I'm typically a floating voter as currently politically homeless - vote on the party that best represents my views at the time

This.

Least worst option at the time.

They're the least worst option.

That being said, I think I will just not be voting at all at the next election as there really isn't any party I can, in all conscience, vote for.

I’m disabled, they all treat me with contempt.; vote the perceived least worst option.

I read the manifestos and vote for the party that overall aligns best with my values, priorities, and ambitions. I have voted for all three main parties across the years.

I won’t be voting Reform. Their track record in Kent so far suggests that they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. I want to see their policies on infrastructure, education, health, energy security, and defence - not just the single issue immigration dog whistle they’ve used with great success so far.

I vote for the party that expects people to be responsible for themselves . To the OP I don’t believe that the circumstances of your birth have to determine your place in the world .

I spoil my vote because I am politically homeless.

I vote for compassion and humanity to out population.

I don’t vote for tax.

What is the point of that . None of them keep to their manifestos.

I vote on the basis of common sense.

We need well maintained profitable farms because we all need to eat, and climate change is making that increasingly difficult.

Basics like water and energy should be state controlled.

We need much greater investment in schools, because education is key to all our futures. Much more important than pay rises for train drivers.

We don't need unisex loos. Someone born a man can never be a woman.

We need a public healthcare system that people treat with respect, & if that means a small initial appointment charge, then bring it on.

Then I vote for whichever choice promises the most common sense on the day. I believe tribal voting is regressive.

Social justice. I usually vote Labour but sometimes Lib Dem. I would never vote Reform and very unlikely to vote Conservative. I am in my late 50s.

This really

Because taxation is theft

Same here.

Many people are shit, and you can't trust them to do the right thing - they need legislation.

At least the “left” pay lip service to building a fairer society. If you can call them left…

I vote on their education policy in thier manifesto mainly as its an area i understand better than other areas.
Last time few times it was lib dem.

No, but some parties exist to protect the privileges of birth.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. The civil service are the ones who decide what happens. Ditto council staff. They can make policy work or fail.

"The period from 2010 to 2024."
(Although that doesn't strictly answer your question, as it determines the parties I don't and would never ever vote for, rather than the ones I do vote for ")

Anyone but Labour or Conservative. They showed us who they are and what their true agenda is.