To be pissed off my vote doesn't count

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid]

Just that really. I live in a Tory stronghold, it's been Tory since approximately forever.

I keep reading political threads with interest but I'm fully aware it doesn't matter who I vote for. Where I live the Torys are guaranteed to win.

I feel the same. Pointless
I do vote though as it is important.

Theresa May is my MP.... no chance she is leaving on June 9th

Swings and roundabouts. I'm a life long conservative voter. Live in a highly labour area (Yvette Cooper). Always has been, always will be labour. My vote doesn't count either, but i still vote.

Of course your votes 'count' it is that engrained 'Tories/Labour/Lib Dems (delete as appropriate) always get in round here, so what's the point of voting/voting for anyone else' that plays a role in stopping seats changing hands. Things can and do change rapidly, the SNP took Glasgow North East with nearly a 40% swing away from Labour.

In last week's local election, my ward had to elect four councils, and had four candidates each for the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. About 40% of the voters plumped for the Tories, so they got 100% of the seats.

To my mind, these multi-councillor council wards offer the most obvious example of the stupidity of First Past the Post. At least in the General Election it has the advantage that I often see touted by anti-PR people that each MP is a representative of one specific area. The same could be achieved in council elections without such skewed distribution of the seats.

Move to a more marginal area, where you can feel you might make a difference then.

Same here, awful candidate too. Worse than George Osborne.

I am in a Tory stronghold ( think of "pleb gate). I looked up figures for the last GE and he had a majority of 16+k. I will still continue to vote labour even though we know it's fruitless.

My area had a 23% turnout for the local elections. The local Tories bus in the old peoples homes and the farmers turn up but that's about it. I usually spoil my slip with a little attached essay about how crap fpp is. If it's not blue or a spittle flecked racist, it won't get elected here. Labour didn't even field a candidate. All the independents thought UKIP were too soft.

And this despite the fact that our MP is rarely here, presided over the decimation of local schools, is implicated in all kinds of shady shit, voted with the whip on what he has been.told, is anti- homosexual, and has quite the most punchable face I've ever seen. He doesn't even bother to canvas or send out info because he knows he will win.