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

[Nakatomi]

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.

I don't give a shiny shit about Trident. It does sum up Corbyn though. Opposing Trident renewal has the potential to be a popular policy. It costs a vast amount of money and will probably be obsolete before it's finished. It's a waste of public funds at a time we've been told we need massive cutbacks to vital services. It's an ineffective defence when we need security. Does he put that to voters? Do his team put that to voters?

I'm not opposed to him wanting to nationalise the railways or tax the banks. I would love that to happen. The problem is that you can't get elected on his policies even if you are an effective leader with good presentation. We live in a conservative country. A country where people voted for Brexit largely because of fears about immigration. A country where the bedroom tax is popular with voters. A country where the rise of the SNP has removed the Scottish seat Labour needed to gain a parliamentary majority. We live in a country that saw the Tory - Lib dem coalition and thought, what we need is more Tories.

I'd vote Conservative.

The bedroom tax might be sensible if it hadn't excluded the biggest group who rent properties with far more bedrooms than they need. Pensioners. But pensioners vote.

Labour member, but won't vote for them whilst Corbyn is leader. He's an activist not a candidate capable of leading the country as PM.

He cant even lead his own MP's FFS.

Feel pretty woeful about my choices ATM.

I'll probably end up voting LibDem as a protest against both the Tories and CorLab.

TUSC - I'm in a constituency where anything other than a Labour vote is a total waste (Merseyside) but I won't not vote. None of the mainstream parties are speaking to me - and through campaigning over the referendum (Out and proud), I realised that some of the hard Left have more in common with me than I would have thought.

Labour.
I'd like to see what Corbyn could accomplish if his party was behind him. My local MP though is Liz Kendall, I loathe having to vote her in 😡

RortyCrankle

They're taking away £30 a week from disabled people who might be capable of work at some point in the future. How is that fair? Why should a disabled person get the same amount as an able bodied person? It is much harder for a disabled person to find employment and they have extra costs that able bodied people they don't.

They scrapped DLA and replaced it with PIP which is far harder to claim successfully. Several people are severely disabled but can't get PIP because their problem is more mentally than physically, which PIP doesn't cover well enough. The criteria is incredibly narrow, purposely so.

This government hates disabled people. I don't know how anyone could vote for them.

It's an interesting discussion and it would be nice if people weren't insulted or quizzed for their reasoning.

I would vote lib dem and joined the party after the referendum. I am very pro the EU and think Brexit is the biggest threat to our country since WW2

SNP. There is no one else to vote for in Scotland. Labour have destroyed their Scottish vote, Tories don't offer anything (and never have) as they don't seem to 'get' why Scottish voters might feel aggrieved about their views not mattering as everything centres around South England.

The only way that things like PIP can be stopped is by getting the Tories out. That is not possible at the moment. Unless a new party is formed or Labour seriously get their shit together and lose Corbyn there is no opposition.

Brexit is the biggest threat to our country since WW2

Yes those pesky bloody Germans again.

I genuinely have no idea. The conservatives have fucked over so many people I can't forgive or get past that and Jeremy Corbyn can't even lead his party. He just doesn't command respect at all from his peers and that doesn't work in a leader. Lib dems lost my respect when they had power and just rolled over and said yes to almost everything they had campaigned against. There is no viable alternative party, UKIP wish they were but I'd rather spoil my vote that put a mark against those racist bigots.

Conservative. Great news today about Brexit being actioned in March. I'm liking Theresa May. Our local MP is okay (Tory), but I vote with more of an eye on the national situation.

I totally can't understand why anyone would want to ride roughshod over a democratic decision. The referendum happened and Brexit won.

Labour, probably. I voted Labour until the Iraq war, and since then I've voted Green - but I'll probably give Labour another go under Corbyn.

Why only probably? Well, I'm in Scotland and not at all impressed with the mess the party's in up here, or the embarrassment that is Kezia Dugdale (far and away the least competent of all the Scottish party leaders IMO). Plus my consituency has turned from safe Labour to very safe SNP, and I don't have a scoobie who the Labour candidate is likely to be - I doubt that the previous MP who lost her seat at the last election will be selected again.

I totally can't understand why anyone would want to ride roughshod over a democratic decision. The referendum happened and Brexit won.

There was one of those democratic decisions made to enter the EEU.

I think it's called 'democracy'.

Labour.

Libdem.

Until Labour announce it's new candidates, it's too soon for most former labour voters to make a judgement about whether they'll support them; unless of course, they are just as much "dyed in the wool" Labour voters as Torys voters are accused of being?

I think Labour needs to get its act together quick - insist that the local branches make their decision about whether or not they are going to deselect the existing MPs and field new candidates and get on with it.

The alternative is that the Party will be throwing inexperienced and unprepared Momentum members into a parliamentary election campaign.

While that will be good for the Party I support, it is not good for democracy.

KeepTrudging I wish we had someone like the SNP here. I'm totally against independence but I'd vote for them purely because they're a genuinely left-wing party. We're only about 30 minutes from the border and I don't get why Scotland can be so left-wing but the rest of the country is very right-wing as you go further and further south, it's baffling.

OP, I have just written and deleted a very long post explaining exactly why I don't need you to tell me how hard it is to live and work as a disabled person. Why did I delete it? Because I have no desire to open up the details of my life to scrutiny by you or any one else on here.

In fact, I honestly don't give a fuck what you think; you asked a question - I answered it.

I would lastly suggest it is pointless asking the question you have on here. MN is massively skewed to the left and Conservative voters are quite frankly sick and tired of being attacked every time so end up not bothering. That also applies to EU Referendum Leave voters, of which I am one.

Jessica so agree with your comment.

Labour, but it wouldn't matter where I live because it's very Tory. It's pretty much only older people who bother voting here.

Re the Brexit vote, some people voted to leave on the basis of a lot of lies/scaremongering. I think it's time politicians were held accountable if they tell lies. Perhaps the threat of court action/losing their seat would persuade them. It's disgusting that we've become so used to politicians being dodgy that we hardly bat an eyelid now.

The only sensible anti-Tory anti-Brexit vote where I live is Lib Dem. So even though I'd have to grimace a bit ' because Rennard', Lib Dem. Probably.

indeed, the Brexit vote was predicated on two major things: 1. lies with regard cost and benefit of EU and 2. the ridiculous slogan of 'get our country back.'

Rorty - I have no desire at all to know of your personal circs., but to claim that the plight of people living with disability is a lefty conspiracy is ludicrous.