To ask for somebody who is good at explaining things simply to explain the election.

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I don't understand anything! For example who and what are we voting for? What does each person want to do if they get elected? Who is Corbin is he good or bad? Please help me to understand what is going on. I really want to vote but I don't understand things

www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com
Try this quiz.

There's loads of information on their website about their policies. It's labour though not labor - not being pedantic but just to make sure you're on the correct site.

RoastedPotato Happy to join you with our hard hats because I agree with you.

Most parties have a basic outline of their philosophies on health, education, business etc.

Depends on whether you think of yourself or others...

Not that simple either.

OP You are best waiting until the end if the week once all the manifestos are out. You will then be able to visit each parties website and the details will all be there.

That's labour with a U Kitty in case you have text to speech software due to you VI.

Probably the most important thing to realise is that it's very hard to get balanced views. Media present misleading information, don't tell you everything, only provide negative facts about other parties - and we have a very biased media out there.

We also tend to only seek out information that proves our own beliefs.

According to that quiz i scored 17 for liberal democrats.

I'm disgusted at those of you who seem to think only the intellectual few are entitled to vote. Shame on you.

I agree with Orlantina Also only listening to your friends provides its own echo chamber. The same with SM.

You could post 2 opposing views on MN to get exposed to different views.

www.labour.org.uk/pages/general-election-2017-need-to-know

This is what I'm finding, but there is no information on this page about what the party believes in. Not that I have noticed anyway.

Go back to the home page

You seem to be talking about Labour a lot. You mentioned Corbyn at the start and have talked about Labour's policies and its approach to Brexit.

Any reason you are only talking about Labour?

Op. as others have said, there are quizzes online that you can fill in to help you decide who to vote for. And do vote. Even if you dont understand more than the basics, not voting means that people like you are less likely to be taken into account in decision making. For example if statistically more old people vote than disabled and young people, political parties make policies for the old, over the young and disabled. Even if you vote for the purple unicorn party, you are giving notice that you are out there and willing to vote. Parties will then attempt to win your vote. For example, the Tory Party have hijacked the entire UKIP manifesto to win over their voters

Europe will not want to trade with us.
Really? Who is going to buy all those unsold BMWs, Audis, VWs, Seats, Skodas, Citroens, Peugeots, Bosch appliances, Braun toothbrushes, Sabatier knives etc? Do you really think workers in these industries will be happy to lose their jobs? I doubt it.

I'm going to look at them all, because even if I don't vote for a certain party I'm still very curious as to know what everyone does. I have to start somewhere though. :)

I'm disgusted at those of you who seem to think only the intellectual few are entitled to vote.

I think that mindset has been evident for quite a while now, especially after brexit and the many threads that insinuate "turkeys voting for christmas" re anyone voting Tory

That podcast is really good bye the way.

I finally found it when you go to the welcome page, I thought that was the homepage. It has a link on it that says go to the main website, which I had missed before.

Just to confuse you - is there a party who has views you wouldn't want to see in Parliament?

That's where tactical voting comes in.

Say for example, you support Labour but don't want the Tories to win. Your seat may have a Tory majority with a Lib Dem second and Labour no where to be seen.

You could vote Lib Dem to prevent a Tory win. The Tory party may win overall but would have a reduced majority.

The majority is important - reduced majorities means that the Government has to often compromise more within its own party and also with the opposition.

A landslide victory makes it far easier to get controversial leglisation through.

(I am still pondering that at the moment)

Tina, could you please give me another example because yes that was very confusing. I think I may need coffee. ☕️😂

Hi Kitty, you have started a very interesting thread. As a visually impaired person what are the issues that have most impact on your life?
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Are there any other issues you, or the people you care about, especially want to see adressed?

Do you know who your current MP is?

The Government depends on a majority to get leglisation through Parliament.

The more MPs it has, the easier it is to get its stuff through.

Theresa May has had a small majority this Parliament. That meant backbenchers (her MPs who were not in Government) could tell her that certain things they want to do are not good and she should back down or change them.

The school academies policy and Grammar schools was one. As was the National Insurance issue. She had to listen to her backbenchers.

If she gets a large majority, she can get controversial policies through.

We had a coalition - and they held the Tories in check on some things . But not everything.

Basically, look at the past results for your area. If you want the Conservatives to win, then vote for them. Chances are they are going to win anyway overall.

If you DO NOT want the Conservatives to have landslide, then look at your constituency.

Some people say you should vote for the person you want to win.

Some say you should vote to stop someone who you don't want to win.