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AIBU to ask you who you would vote for if a General Election were to be called tomorrow?

339 replies

Nakatomi · 02/10/2016 14:01

And why would you vote that way? For you, do you vote for your party or for your local MP?

I am a Corbyn supporter but dislike my local MP for resigning from the front bench. Shame, because she's actually quite a good MP otherwise. I would probably still vote for her to get Labour into power but otherwise I would vote for the Greens.

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FranHastings · 02/10/2016 14:38

I'd also vote for anyone who promised no Brexit.

As that most likely won't happen, I'd probably vote Lib Dem, although I really like our Labour candidate and we are in a staunchly Conservative area, so in the end it won't matter a jot. Sad

noblegiraffe · 02/10/2016 14:40

I'd vote for whoever looked most likely to get rid of our local Tory MP unless they were UKIP or similar.

ExcuseMyEyebrows · 02/10/2016 14:40

A "non man" ??!! Shock wtf?

CremeEggThief · 02/10/2016 14:44

Green or Labour.

No matter how you feel, you should still use your right to vote.

DoYouRememberJustinBobby · 02/10/2016 14:45

I used to be Lib Dem. Voted for them in the first 3 general elections I was old enough to vote in. Last year I voted Green, in a safe Labour seat.
I joined Labour at the end of last year and have would now vote Labour because of Corbyn. I fear my constituency could turn UKIP.

Cherryskypie · 02/10/2016 14:47

If you're Labour and not voting Labour because of Corbyn, please vote for someone. Let them see that your vote has gone elsewhere and they can't just ignore you safe in the knowledge that you have no other options.

minsmum · 02/10/2016 14:48

I have no idea, couldn't vote conservative and wouldn't vote for the rest. Feeling for the first time ever that there is no point as I can't see a least worse option.

MrsBungle · 02/10/2016 14:48

I honestly don't know. I've always voted labour but won't as long as Corbyn is in charge as I do not see him as a prime minister. I do like my local labour mp. I'm still raging at the lib dems about tuition fees so I won't go there either. I honestly don't know what I'd do.

BlueKarou · 02/10/2016 14:50

I would vote Labour, and am one of the many who joined Labour because of Corbyn. As long as he's leader I will vote for them, otherwise probably back to Green or LibDem.

AlbertaDewdrop · 02/10/2016 14:52

What do you mean reverse Brexit? Have another referendum or just ignore the last one?

either another referendum of not triggering article 50. The referendum is not legally binding and does not trigger Brexit.

TaliDiNozzo · 02/10/2016 14:55

I would rather die than vote Tory or UKIP. Am a lifelong Labour member/supporter/voter but the thought of voting for useless Corbyn turns my stomach. Lib Dems don't appeal greatly tbh. I will probably still vote Labour but I won't be happy about it.

Realistically however, I would vote for anyone who promised to halt the Brexit madness.

Summerholsdoingmyheadin · 02/10/2016 14:57

how you feel, you should still use your right to vote.

But what if there is no candidate / party who you feel worthy of your vote? I would go to the polling station because I believe we all have a responsibility to vote but I would have to spoil my ballot paper. I never thought I would say this either as I have always voted.

dinosaursarebisexual · 02/10/2016 14:57

Labour all my life. Staunch left. Brexiter. Can't support Corbyn. Will only vote Tory when I'm senile. No chance of voting Lib Dem. Frankly feel competely politically disenfranchised.

dinosaursarebisexual · 02/10/2016 15:01

Or even completely, stupid phone.

Realhousewivesofshit · 02/10/2016 15:03

I see Alberta though can't see that happening.

MrsB totally with you on the tuition fees and Lib Dems.

Will see how May shapes up as time goes on. Goodness knows where the country will be in 2020.

If Corbyn is still the leader labour will be dead in the water by then unfortunately.

SmilingHappyBeaver · 02/10/2016 15:15

Lib Dem. They are pro-Europe and would either put the brakes on Brexit or negotiate soft brexit (in single market with freedom of movement).

I don't know why the Lid Dems get such a hard time over tuition fees - they were not in full power, it was a coalition so of course Nick Clegg had to compromise on something... people seem to forget it was the Lib Dems who almost doubled the tax-free personal allowance and took hundreds of thousands, if not millions, out of paying tax. That benefited far more people than were negatively affected by the u-turn on tuition fees.

SoupSpork · 02/10/2016 15:18

Normally vote labour but won't while Corbyn is in charge, I don't really want to vote Tory or ukip (the two most popular in my constituency at last election) and I definetly wouldn't vote for green after the non male nonsense, which kind of leaves me with no-one! So probably an independent or a spoilt ballot it looks like for me Sad

Lightsoffplease · 02/10/2016 15:21

Labour. What's the issue with Corbyn?

GerdaLovesLili · 02/10/2016 15:21

Doesn't matter who I vote for. I live in a "red rosette on a pig" labour voting constituency. I won't vote for Corbyn, so I'll go and spoil my vote probably.

GraceGrape · 02/10/2016 15:22

Lib dem, but live in a safe Tory seat so feel like my vote doesn't count. Wish we had some form of PR.

Nakatomi · 02/10/2016 15:22

Why do people keep saying Labour will be dead in the water if Corbyn stays? He's a good person and lots and lots of people support him - his increased majority shows that. The only people who don't like him are people who think Labour has to move more to the right, which is untrue.

Eventually, people will tire of right-wing stuff and want a change. I expect by 2020 people will be sick of the Tories. UKIP are finished as a party now - their leader is so unmemorable that even people in the party can't name her and she doesn't seem to get the same media coverage Farage got. They were a single issue party and now that issue has been resolved, they have no purpose.

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GraceGrape · 02/10/2016 15:23

SoupSpork would you vote lib dem?

MistressMolecules · 02/10/2016 15:24

I'd vote for any party that promised to scrap Brexit plans.
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^^*This. I am a labour supporter (and a Corbyn supporter) but I would happily hand my vote to the party that did this. I do have a slight musing that Theresa May is passing some slightly controversial ideas (Grammar school being one and the installation of the numpties who are in charge of Brexit plans) to weaken the support for cons - in a hope that maybe a vote of no confidence is called so new GE? (Wishful thinking on my part I know)

Lightsoffplease · 02/10/2016 15:25

Why does Labour need to move further to the right? Confused

seashells16 · 02/10/2016 15:25

Conservative. Don't agree with all their policies but I don't feel I can 'not vote' and the other parties just aren't doing it for me.