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.

RealHousewivesofShit

I do think Ed was electable and a good leader, he just made the mistake of thinking viral marketing and social media would be enough to get him to Number 10. I would've preferred David too but Ed had an awful campaign run against him by Murdoch's empire. I think everyone can agree that they were ridiculous with the stuff they were coming out with, especially when having a go at him for the way he ate a Bacon butty (no mention of Cameron eating a hot dog with a knife and fork...)

Another labour member who wouldn't vote for Corbyn. I don't believe his policies add up, I don't think he understands business or the economy, and I don't think he is a world class leader.

I would probably vote Lib Dem. Though I am torn because I have a great Labour MP (until the boundaries change )

Conservative.

Corbyns questions at question time used to wind me up so much. The man can't debate. Can't negotiate and can't integrate. That's why he's possibly the worse choice as leader.

Reasons ...I like May. There is no viable alternative. I might possibly vote lib dem one day but they're currently too weak.

Labour supporter and member here. Will vote labour as my MP is not a Corbyn supporter.m unless I have left by then in which case lib dem I guess. Think Corbyn is a disaster and either a knave or a fool.

And for the PP who asked, I am against Trident (so agree with JC but not with party policy) and no, I don't want a more aggressive leadership style. There is quite enough aggression from the people surrounding JC already.

Lib dem.....and as a member I'm heartened to see quite a few other posters saying the same.

Brainwashed - the Lib Dems do have a real opportunity now, I think. I just wonder if they are still too tainted from the coalition and struggling to get enough media coverage to get their message across effectively.

Tory.

Marylou - yes it's very interesting.
However you can see how it happens on Mumsnet. Someone on this thread said they would vote Tory and the op had a go at him/her.
It's similar on the EU referendum threads - those who try to defend Brexit are sneered at and told they are laughing stocks.
Most posters aren't going to bother with a discussion or debate if they are subject to personal attacks and their views are dismissed with a sneer.
So they keep their views to themselves and vote for whom they want in the privacy of the voting booth.

I'll vote for my Labour MP (Stella Creasy) if she survives the boundary changes, but if I'm presented with a Momentum type I will probably not. I've voted Labour all my life but Jeremy Corbyn, in my view, is not "a good man". He's an overgrown student politician who does gesture politics and virtue-signalling to the extreme. Keeping the trident subs without the bombs? Pathetic protectionism of a dying industry (that he would have killed), and economically insane (how much other development could you foster in Faslane with that money?) Women-only carriages? Victim-blaming, extreme safe-spacing lunacy that infantilises women and criminalises non-criminal men and encourages the criminal ones. Fucking Hamas.

He is softly spoken but driven by a deeply childish hate. He's an arse, and he's had decades to try not to be an arse. He'd rather feel morally superior to "bad people" than think about what people other than him might do, or think, or feel. He's a lefty Trump, psychologically.

No one, because I'm not interested

For the first time ever I'd consider conservative. Like may bur maybe I just need to give it time :)

My first daily mail arrives tomorrow :o I'm only going to use it to roll up and hit a few benefit scum.

Dapplegrey1

I haven't had a go at anyone, just wanted to know how people felt about the cuts imposed by the party they voted for. I never said "you should be ashamed of voting Tory!" and I never would about anyone's political allegiance. Well, not unless they were endorsing someone like Britain First.

As for the Brexit thing, I was actually very close to voting Leave like a lot of far left people. The only thing that made me remain were purely selfish reasons like freedom of movement and the fact that I want to retire abroad one day. Plus a few other things like my SIL being Bulgarian, and I didn't like the very toxic atmosphere of some of the Leave campaigners.

It's an interesting phenomenon certainly.

I do wish Left supporters would one day twig insulting people doesn't endear you to them and as such they aren't likely to get on board with your views.

Marylou2

I think the Tories would win as well but not a landslide. I think the reason this thread isn't really representative is because you have things like the Shy Tory factor (people who won't admit who they're voting for, it could be any party really) as well as the fact some of us live in very safe seats. I'm one of those - there's no hope of anyone but Labour getting in round here, even though there are at least 15,000 people in my area who voted Tory at the last election.

jenny29054

Completely agree. There's some on the left who resort to muck slinging and some on the right as well. I'm sick of seeing "Lefty" being used as an insult just as much as I'm sick of seeing anyone who voted Brexit described as "Racist/Bigot/Ukipper" etc especially because some of my really hard left friends voted Brexit and come under none of those banners, same as the majority of Leave voters.

Mumsnet tends to veer to the left so that may partly explain why 'lefty' is used sometimes to describe the left while 'cunt, scum, shits' describe those who voted right of centre.

I was always a Tory voter but couldn't bring myself to vote for the twats last time in my nice safe Tory seat.

Of all the current politicians, I like Jeremy Corbyn the best - he seems much less of a "stuffed shirt with a party-appropriate tie" than the others.

Often here we have no Labour candidate - much too Tory for that, so it would probably have to be Green or Independent.

This is quite interesting, especially the charts showing how leaders are perceived. Looks like parties have to be near the centre to succeed.

yougov.co.uk/news/2016/08/19/which-leaders-have-most-successfully-shifted-publi/

I haven't had a go at anyone, just wanted to know how people felt about the cuts imposed by the party they voted for. I never said "you should be ashamed of voting Tory!"

Well op, I think you are being disingenuous. In another comment you said
Why Tory? Do you think it's good that disabled people are having £30 a week taken off them?

That last sentence is just a passive aggressive way of saying "you should be ashamed of voting Tory".

How does the whole taking us back into the EU thing work? If TM triggers article 50 as promised in March, we leave exactly 2 years later. So March 2019. The general election is in May 2020. The EU won't just let us back in- they are not that desperate to have us. (And who knows what will have happened in the other EU countries elections by then anyway).

Also, TM can't just call an early election. We have a fixed term parliament now. The only way we get an election before May 2020 is if there is a vote of no confidence in the government or if 2/3rds of MPs want one. Neither scenario looks likely.

Labour most likely, but could be tempted by the Lib Dems.