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.

I don’t despise floating voters. I can see why someone might float between parties like Lib Dem, Green, Labour, Your Party, who have SOME shared values. Or between Tory, Reform or some of the other Right of centre small parties-like Rupert Lowe’s lot. Also some shared values. I genuinely can’t understand how you could vote Labour at one election and Tory at the next without becoming an entirely different person.

@CurlewKate can you not understand why Red Wall voters switched to the Tories in 2019 and why they will likely switch again to Reform at the next election? The felt completely abandoned by Labour.

It's always the 'I'm so compassionate' types who so readily and openly declare hatred for other people.

The dissonance should be as obvious to them as it is to other people, but strangely it never is.

Never trust anyone who self declares themselves as moral or compassionate. These should be judgements by others based on your actions.

I used to be committed Labour. Used to scrutineer at elections and canvas.

I will never vote for this stripe of Labour government, ever. I think they are spiteful, grasping, deceitful and are thinking only of themselves and trying to keep their jobs by throwing gold bones to their mates in the unions.

Last election I voted for our sitting Tory MP. He was, I believe, a man of integrity and had a good track record of really supporting our area, particularly in the area of SEN which affects us. He lost his job in the Labour landslide though and his replacement is someone we call 'The invisible MP'. He never canvassed locally even before the election and as he lives three doors down from me I know that he is very rarely in parliament.

I vote different each time so whoever is the least worst at the time. Usually the one who is most interested in improving healthcare at that time.

It’s not that hard. Blair had many similar policies as now. No higher taxes, promoting a thriving private sector. If you have an SME for example you could easily vote Blair and then Conservative not Labour which is now likely to squash incentives. You want someone who gets it and doesn’t hammer jobs.

It’s just because you frame it differently you find it hard to get.

This too.

Anyone but Labour.

Anyone but them.

For the many, not the few.

Reform?

To say I'm disappointed in Starmer is a massive understatement - for me there is no alternative to Labour but I'll vote tactically if necessary to keep out Farage.

Stay-at-Home Motherhood.

Not in a million... They are the absolute opposite of everything I believe in.

At this point it's anything to keep a fascist away from power.

I believe the voting system is at the root of many of the comments posted.

Labour (and any other Party that's ever been in Government) got a minority of the Votes, a majority of the Seats and all of the Power!!

^https://www.change.org/MakeVotingMeaningful^
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/politics/5471823-do-you-know-how-votes-translate-to-seats

Tactical Voting is a symptom of our broken voting system 😞😟😠

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Don't understand all this voting stuff. It all seems so, well so political.

Unfortunately Joe I can't "download" that straight into your brain😉but I'm happy to do my best to explain it in simple terms😁

...and "Get Brexit Done" of course!

I want a fairer society, where children are fed at school, schools are well funded and have qualified teachers in front of them, pensions are triple locked, workers rights are protected , free childcare , a protected NHS, less division, less bigotry, closer ties with the EU

Countries that use PR tend to have

• higher voter turnout,
• better representation of women in Parliament and
• higher satisfaction with democracy.

Countries that use PR have

• lower income inequality,
• lower levels of poverty, and
• are more likely to take action to tackle the climate crisis.

1. ^https://www.change.org/MakeVotingMeaningful^
2. https://therejoineuparty.com/mission-statement/

I could never vote Tory as my ancestors would rise up from their graves and smite me down so hard that wee pencil would freeze in my hand.
They were honest hard working folk who worked in shipyards, outside all day in freezing weather, they had no cars they either walked or got buses in the early hours to get to work . The woman with no washing machines, big families in small tenement houses who kept their children fed with very little and would always help neighbours out who had even less .
Apparently both parties used to run a bus to the polling station and my wee granny would ask to go on the Conservative run bus not to vote for them but as she said to free up a seat for a labour voter on their bus!

Apologies edited just seen you want it summed up in one sentence
The tories main aim is to look after the wealthy and privileged like David Cameron or Boris et al , I have nada in common with these people views of the world.

I'm not a selfish twat