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to ask who you will be voting for tomorrow?

591 replies

lollyloll · 06/05/2015 11:33

Ex Lib-Dem voter and I will probably be voting Green even though they haven't a hope in hell of getting in where I live. There are no parties that represent me 100% and I feel like the Greens are offering a lot of fresh polices (as well as quite a few crazy ones) but I am ready for change.

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Eversobusyeveryday · 06/05/2015 22:10

I agree, I am horrified that in this day we have food banks, that in an era of cheap food people need to rely on food banks. The people relying on them are actually mainly working people, people who aren't paid a decent wage, who have had their benefits cut and who can't make ends meet. There are loads of great volunteers about, there's nothing more special about people volunteering for food banks rather than for other charities. We should be ashamed that in a civilised country there is a need for them.

SideOrderofChips · 06/05/2015 22:10

If i could vote in the uk i would vote conservative

UnoPan · 06/05/2015 22:13

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needmorespace · 06/05/2015 22:13

MrsBird311
Snobby, SNOBBY????
Are you for real?
I object to Food Banks because no family or individual should EVER have to depend or rely on one not because I think I am too good to use them.
Perhaps if employers paid decent wages and there was a decent safety net, people wouldn't need to.
I simply cannot support your vision of the fluffiness of food banks.

MrsBungle · 06/05/2015 22:13

Dh and I will both be voting labour.

Frostox · 06/05/2015 22:15

mrsbird you don't think food banks are an issue that should be politicised?! Tough, it is political. Obviously it's splendid that communities are responding to a need or that they're full of generous communities and caring volunteers, it's because when the coalition took power there were 56 food banks serving 41,000 people. In 2013/2014, the Tory's bastard policies had forced more than 900,000 into using them. To say that this is an issue that shouldn't be politicised is absurd and insulting to the many, many people who have been targeted by the Tory's ideologically motivated assault on the welfare state.

Fannyannieanne · 06/05/2015 22:15

Side well thank fuck for the rest of us you can't vote.

Sigh.

MargoReadbetter · 06/05/2015 22:16

Imagine a country of Katie Hopkins judgements and morals for your children and your old age. Shudder.

blowinahoolie · 06/05/2015 22:16

"If i could vote in the uk i would vote conservative"

Phew! One less Tory voter tomorrow....

Fannyannieanne · 06/05/2015 22:17

Unopan.

We live in a democracy which means we are all equally entitled to vote free from abuse, intimidation or pressure.

Shall we abide by that on here too?

Fannyannieanne · 06/05/2015 22:18

Imagine a country of Katie Hopkins judgements and morals for your children and your old age. Shudder.

There is only one Katie Hopkins, thankfully!

ElectraCute · 06/05/2015 22:19

Typical Tory doublethink - if you object to foodbanks then you are a snob who is 'looking down on them'. You're not horrified that, in one of the richest countries in the world, people (working people!) are forced to basically beg for a bag of pasta and a box of tea bags. No, no, you are a lefty snob who simply doesn't understand how nice it would be to have one in every town...

I'll say one thing, this election has been one hell of a fucking eyeopener. There is some really twisted logic out there justifying tory vileness.

ilovesooty · 06/05/2015 22:19

I work with disadvantaged and marginalised people. In 2010 it was rare for them to be reliant on food banks. Now it's so commonplace we had to set up our own and factor collections of food on a rota into our working day.
How anyone can claim this isn't a political issue is beyond me.

mindthegap79 · 06/05/2015 22:22

Labour

londonrach · 06/05/2015 22:22

What time can we vote to tomorrow

WeAllHaveWings · 06/05/2015 22:22

SNP x 3

needmorespace · 06/05/2015 22:23

^ ElectraCute
I wish there was a like button - your post would get a million of mine
I actually can't believe she called me snobby
unfuckingbelievable

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 06/05/2015 22:23

If Labour get in, Katie Hopkins leaves.

Why would anyone not vote Labour? Grin

ElectraCute · 06/05/2015 22:23

7am-10pm londonrach

UnoPan · 06/05/2015 22:24

Fanny - I've not intimidated anyone, apart perhaps from a strength of argument? If saying "thank fuck you can't vote" is 'intimidation' then your skin is remarkably thin, if I may say.

blowinahoolie · 06/05/2015 22:24

"I'll say one thing, this election has been one hell of a fucking eyeopener. There is some really twisted logic out there justifying tory vileness."

You can say that again....I have really seen it all since being on MN over the course of this election. Real eye opener. There are some seriously sick and twisted individuals.

morethanpotatoprints · 06/05/2015 22:25

I think I'm spoiling my paper as there will be no change at all.
The banks govern this country through the muppets.
The only decent party doesn't stand a chance.
We're all doomed and your vote won't make a jot of difference unless it's conservative and that is too horrific to contemplate.
I have tried to come up with an idea, started threads, asked questions and this is the conclusion I have come up with.
I just wish all those who are voting for the lesser evil in their eyes would do the same.
Vote for a party that will make things better for the majority, but you won't find one.

PeasinPod1 · 06/05/2015 22:26

Uno speak for yourself. Your rash, basic, aggressive response says so much about the average Labour voter while also being in complete, convenient denial about their track record. How anyone can accuse the Tories of not caring when the Labour Party left that note "there's no money left" making a mockery of the fact that 10000s of lives would be plummeted into poverty and crisis as a result is sickening.

Mrsbird311 · 06/05/2015 22:28

oh go and volunteer in one for week and you will understand what I'm trying to say, they are a lot more than giving out food and nobody is having to beg for anything , people find themselves in all sorts of situations not everything is the fault of the government

CrapBag · 06/05/2015 22:28

Labour. Would never vote for SNP or the Welsh one as they are only interested in their own countries, Greens have got no chance so wouldn't bother, Lib Dems are crap and I disagree with a lot of what they say, UKIP - well they keep coming out top when I do these surveys but I won't be voting for them, luckily Labour are a very close second anyway, Tories always come dead last in the surveys I do so it reinforces to me that I hate their policies even when I don't know who is belongs to.

As a disabled person who is unable to work the thought of the Tories getting in frightens the hell out of me. I'll genuinely be devastated if they get in.

Love that picture. Very accurate.

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