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If a general election is called would you vote Lib Dem to stay in the EU?

308 replies

Rainbunny · 28/06/2016 21:49

If there is a general election the Lib Dems have stated they will run on a platform to keep the UK in the EU if they win. The Tories obviously won't do that and the Labour party can't really run on that platform I don't think since so many Labour voters voted to leave. I'm curious if the Lib Dems would attract a lot of support since they would effectively be turning the general election into a second referendum.

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ApocalypseSlough · 28/06/2016 21:58

Yes. And I'm a Labour Party member.

toboldlygo · 28/06/2016 21:58

Muttering disgustedly under my breath about tuition fees, with reluctance, yes.

justbogoff · 28/06/2016 21:58

Yes

Boogers · 28/06/2016 21:59

No. They have no sway, regardless of what Farron says on Twitter. They're opportunists, and this is from someone who voted Lib Dem in 2001 and saw my candidate get in with a majority of 4000.

I'm somewhere between Labour and Lib Dem but wouldn't vote for either as a party. I would vote for my (Labour) constituency MP because I think he's a decent and principled bloke who was one of the first to resign form Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

Summerwood1 · 28/06/2016 21:59

No. Very happy with the leave vote.

Rainbunny · 28/06/2016 21:59

I have to imagine a lot of voters who haven't previously voted LiB Dem might do so just because of the EU issue, especially after seeing how it's all hitting the fan now...

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Purplepixiedust · 28/06/2016 21:59

Yes

StickTheDMWhereTheSunDontShine · 28/06/2016 21:59

I could forgive them for it and my own Labour MP is such a Blairite that he used to have the job of primary arse licker to him and he's said a few things this year that have made me go right off him.

I'd vote Green if they stopped pretending we could all cycle everywhere on dirt tracks.

MyLifeisaboxofwormgears · 28/06/2016 22:00

You can't do the A50 on polling day - Parliament is officially dissolved before a general election, all civil servants have to cease all party political business and only run the country's administrative mechanisms.
It's called a purdah and is very very inconvenient when you are trying to run a department!

APlaceOnTheCouch · 28/06/2016 22:00

No. I neither trust nor respect Tim Farron.

Destinysdaughter · 28/06/2016 22:00

Condems. Have you lot learnt nothing? Pp who want to get into power will promise anything!

Alanna1 · 28/06/2016 22:00

Yes, but I suspect the Labour Party will have a credible leader by then, so I'd vote for them instead.

FuzzyWizard · 28/06/2016 22:01

I don't think so, no. Will depend on what else happens between now and the election, especially in the Labour Party (I'm a labour member)

OhYouBadBadKitten · 28/06/2016 22:01

yes.

TearingDownTheWall · 28/06/2016 22:01

I would consider it seriously. We are in a swing area and I would prefer to vote labour but think Jeremy Cornyn isn't the leader I want. However it might one down to a tactical vote to ensure we don't end up with a Tory mp.

PortiaCastis · 28/06/2016 22:01

No, tuition fees are rearing their head.

monkeywithacowface · 28/06/2016 22:02

Yes, I but I've always lib dem

PeaceOfWildThings · 28/06/2016 22:03

Yes. I'd also vote for Lib dem (or anyone) if they went for letting NI, Scotland and Gibraltar stay in EU, and England and Wales exited the UK.

TulipsInAJug · 28/06/2016 22:04

No. I voted Leave. And since a clear majority of the British people agreed with me, Tim Farron's proposals are pie in the sky.

Why can't MPs, of all people, understand democracy.

There will be no second vote.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 28/06/2016 22:04

this goes beyond tuition fees. Lib Dems have been pounding the streets campaigning for remain, despite the media ignoring them.

Who else is there to get us out of this mess?

OhTheRoses · 28/06/2016 22:04

Constitutionally and democratically I don't think they can. It's a bit of a concern they don't know that.

I'll vote LibDem when my DS is their leader Wink

OhYouBadBadKitten · 28/06/2016 22:05

Only a third of the eligible electorate voted leave. That is not a clear majority.

OneArt · 28/06/2016 22:06

Yes.

They have been consistently pro Remain so this wouldn't be a hypocritical move for them.

PenguinsAreAce · 28/06/2016 22:06

I don't know. I have voted lib dem more times in my life than anything else. However, the last time I did they then formed a coalition with the fucking Tories and the there was tuition fees. I said Never Again and joined the Labour Party (first time member of any political party). Then they fucking elected Jeremy Corbyn the unelectable and left the omnishambles the Labour Party now is.

Locally we had a good lib dem MP and now have a good labour one. Would I risk them forming some sort of unholy alliance (coalition) again? I am not sure... But then labour are now shot to bits at a national level...

So in short, maybe.

(Setting aside the issue of how the other 27 countries might feel!)

capercaillie · 28/06/2016 22:06

Yes. Have voted Lib Dem before. Think they did well in the coalition.