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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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Smartleatherbag · 02/10/2016 19:44

Never in a million years did I think I'd say this, but I would vote tory right now. I'm in Scotland and they offer the only alternative to the nationalists.

Smartleatherbag · 02/10/2016 19:44

If I were in England or Wales, I'd probably vote Labour, which is who I've voted for until very recently.

Lalsy · 02/10/2016 19:54

Burntheblacksuit, both Labour and Lib Dems have called for an early election so it is extremely likely it would get the majority needed.

dinosaursarebisexual · 02/10/2016 19:59

crossparsley Good post.

Yabbadabbo2 · 02/10/2016 19:59

Conservative, any of the other muppets would take us back decades and tie us to the dead weight that is the EU. Conservatives always have to take office once labour have messed up the finances then once that's sorted people vote labour back in to repeat the mistake again.

t4nut · 02/10/2016 20:17

Labour. Could never vote Tory. Just plain evil.

BurnTheBlackSuit · 02/10/2016 20:20

Really? Who in Labour have called for a General election? That would seem like a bad idea for them to do to me.

Also, I don't think Labour+Lib Dems add up to 2/3rd of the House of Commons?

Realhousewivesofshit · 02/10/2016 20:22

Nakatomi

You can't say Ed was electable because he wasn't elected was he?

It's really patronising to assume that the electorate in general are so stupid they voted against Ed because of the Murdock press and a bacon sandwich! He wasn't up to the job and that became totally clear with his Ed stone ffs!

If he had bad advisors etc then he had bad judgment.

BurnTheBlackSuit · 02/10/2016 20:23

Conservatives had 50.8% of MPs after 2015 election.

dybil · 02/10/2016 20:27

Lib dem. Never voted for them before (always Labour) but became a member post-brexit.

OhTheRoses · 02/10/2016 20:27

Conservative and with commitment and pride now we have a brilliant leader again.

Have voted conservative since 1979. Did so with a heavy heart in 2010 and 2015.

LellyMcKelly · 02/10/2016 20:35

Any party that ran on an anti-Brexit ticket would get my vote.

AriettaLovesXitiePie · 02/10/2016 20:36

OP, it's a bit of both!
Our views align most of the time, I'm a Conservative anyway, but I do like Theresa as a person too. She seems lovely - and much less serious/stern than a lot of people think; just look up her quote about mince pies and orgasms, or her maiden speech where she made a joke about being "a maiden from Maidenhead making a maiden speech" or something of the like, then admits to using the term maiden "loosely."
I'd love to meet her, hoping to go to conference next year.
Sorry for rambling, I just really like Theresa May Grin

ThoraGruntwhistle · 02/10/2016 20:45

I find it hard to understand why anyone could like her. I don't care how much noise she makes about wanting social justice in speeches in a attempt to make the Tory party look like they care about anyone other than millionaires, this grammar school crap is the opposite of wanting a fair society. She's appalling already and god knows how long we'll have to put up with her.

dinosaursarebisexual · 02/10/2016 20:51

Watch what they do not what they say, indeed Thora

YokoUhOh · 02/10/2016 20:52

Christ, politics in the UK is bleak. If it's truly representative of what the average UK citizen wants out of the system (Brexit, grammar schools) then I must be an alien.

PotteringAlong · 02/10/2016 20:53

Conservative

Alisvolatpropiis · 02/10/2016 20:59

There's not much to like about Theresa May since her speech in which she announced she's given herself two years to negotiate trade deals which on average take seven.

I highly doubt she will have even got passed the negotiation stage never mind managed to ratify a deal before Brexit takes full effect in 2019.

GreenGoth89 · 02/10/2016 21:06

Labour no question about it, I have yet to hear a convincing argument about why Jeremy Corbyn isn't electable.

BMW6 · 02/10/2016 21:09

Conservative - because I am evil, obviously

SlipperyLizard · 02/10/2016 21:16

Lib Dem. I voted for them in 2010 (in what was then a "safe" lib dem seat, had always voted Labour before). Voted Labour last time due to Lib Dem betrayal (2010 campaign round here was "vote lib den, keep Tories out".).

Now got Tory MP, but he's universally disliked from what I can tell. I'd vote Lib Dem to try to oust him, not because I've forgiven them but because I feel strongly that the country is a worse place under the Tories, and realistically Labour cannot win round here.

I'm not a massive Corbyn fan, as I don't think he's a leader, and I voted against him in the leadership election, but I like some of his policies and he seems to be improving. I'd vote Labour if we had an electoral system where that vote would count.

Wheredidallthejaffacakesgo · 02/10/2016 21:18

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Normandy144 · 02/10/2016 21:19

Lib Dems for me. I've flip-flopped between them and Labour since I was eligible to vote. Voted Lib Dems in 2010 and Labour in 2015. This time around though I've moved to a through and through blue constituency. The lib Dems are the second party with labour trailing in third by some way (and I expect they will even Moreno with Corbyn at the helm), so it's an easy choice for me as a committed Remainer.

MooPointCowsOpinion · 02/10/2016 21:24

I think for the first time I would vote labour. They've never been left enough for me, always seemed just slightly left of the Tory right.

If the party can't hold on to old labour voters though who would rather hand the country over to the Tories for another term than swallow their pride and vote for Corbyn, and There's a chance a libdem or green member could get the seat, I'll go with them.

I'd never ever vote Tory, nor refuse to vote in a strop, that's basically the same as letting the Tories win.

Zone2mum · 02/10/2016 21:39

Lib Dem. And I fervently hope they are preparing for coalition with Green and Labour and any remain Conservatives to save us from the Brexit wilderness.

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