To feel politically lost?!

[MissBax]

Since being able to vote I have always been a labour supporter, but in more recent times I'm feeling more and more at a loss with who I feel truly represents me. The whole Lily Madigan Women's Officer saga has been the final straw. I just can't get on board with this bullshit and feel let down by this runaway PC brigade (which I admit I used to be a part of)! Anyone else feeling the same?!

I agree too. I've always voted Labour, although begrudgingly last time as the best of a bad lot as I don't like Corbyn. Not a chance next time, and would never vote Tory. Women have been well and truly sold out.

Deindustrialisation is key to areas where the main employers were manufacturing companies. Granted.

But I did not vote Labour and nor will I. Again.

And if she gave me the keys to her Range Rover, I would show her how to drive it properly.

Labour stronghold where I am too, and also utterly useless. That won't affect my vote nearly as much as the Liam Madigan debacle though, some of my very labour supporting friends won't vote for them next time because of the trans agenda. For the many not the few my arse (50% women pushed aside for 1% trans).

Yanbu op. I was a green member until they led the way in the "non-men" gaslighting.

I’m also politically homeless.

I’m a young Tory Leave voter - the kind of rare breed that the Tories should be falling over themselves to keep as loyal voters but I find this government sickening - what they’ve done to benefits and Universal Credit is sick, Brexit negotiations are a shambles and embarrassing, they’ve done nothing to ease the housing crisis in London/the South East. I don’t recognise myself in this government.

I guess maybe the Lib Dems but I don’t share their love for the EU which is kinda fundamental!

I like some of Corbyn’s policies but not enough for me to vote Labour for the first time in my life.

I probably won’t bother voting in 2022.

The next election will be the only election I've ever not voted in.

Don't do that, if you are still in the Uk. No one will know whether you felt strongly that all the parties were a complete shower, or whether you just couldn't be bothered. Spoil your ballot - the number of spoilt papers gets read out, so it sends a message. I don't know how true this story is, but I heard of one local election where the number of spoilt ballots outnumbered valid votes, and the election was declared void and had to be re-run.

I should add, I think a lot of people are starting to think like me as our constituency recently swung from Con to Lab in the last GE and we were a Con stronghold!

I feel exactly the same OP.

I'm with you: totally lost. I've voted labour, lib dem and conservative at various times in the past. I'm not set on a party ideology but I want a party that is compassionate, that cares about the country's fiscal health, that respects and protects minorities and under represented groups, that tackles climate change and that has ambition for the UK globally, particularly in terms of business and trade.

That doesn't exist. And nothing close to it exists either.

One of my all time favourite films is Brewster's Millions (a movie only improved by the late Richard Pryor)

In that vein, would it be technically possible to run for election on a protest ticket of "I represent none of the above - vote for me as a protest and I will immediately resign, triggering another election"?

I agree with you op. I was a Labour Party member but quit last year over acronyms attitude to Brexit and now by eyes have been truly opened to the misogyny there’s no going back for the foreseeable.

I voted Lib Dem in June but in my constituency nomone but Tory has a hope. We are one of the safe story seats out there. This is another thing that makes me feel utterly voiceless.

We SO need PR. I don’t understand the objections to coalitions. Majorities are just dictatorships. We need cooperation and compromise!!

Corbyns attitude to Brexit. Wtf acronyms??

I've always been a floating voter, and made up my mind on the day of the election who to vote for. The one party I would never vote for is Tory, particularly now with what they're doing to the NHS and the way they're treating vulnerable groups in our society, clearly disabled people being declared fit to work and thus being refused PIP payments.

My DH works in the public sector as well and is a union rep. He's a civil engineer and has had 2 promotions but isn't earning more in real terms since 2009. There are a lot of public sector workers suffering much more than we are, though.

I voted Labour in the last 2 elections because of wanting to get the Tories out but I'm not sure I can now because of their misogyny and anti-semitism.

But I feel like I have to vote as a woman, because so many women fought so hard for us to have that right.

they have pissed on Jo's grave by allowing a man to enter a leadership scheme exclusively for women set up as a memorial to her. She was killed by a man. A place on the scheme may be given to a man simply because he demands that he is a woman.

This kid had nothing at all to do with Jo Cox's murder. There is no connection at all between the two.

I am unsure how Jo Cox would have felt about these developments. Perhaps someone close to her may know more about this sort of thing.

Agree. I've just cancelled Labour Party membership over the whole Lily Madigan affair, but also because I feel like they are just as complicit as the Tories with Brexit. There is no credible opposition ATM, politicians just seem to be out for themselves

Regarding Brexit and Corbyn.

This Tory insanity is far from over. It is just beginning. It can be stopped.

Hope your right make but with Barniers commments yesterday I can’t help feeling that diplomatically the divisions are making it harder and harder even if legally possible. His comments will have made leavers dog their heels in even deeper.

*dig

I'm politically lost too. I've only ever voted for Labour and the Lib Dems and voted to Leave. My area was the highest to vote Leave (76%) but has a strong Labour hold (81%, up 12.7 in the last election). To be fair I like my local MP. But I could not bring myself to vote for him under Corbyn. I preferred a Conservative government to see Brexit through but do not want to vote for them. I don't like Lib Dems backing to remain in the EU so they were out. I couldn't even be bothered to go and spoil my ballot and the place to vote is opposite my house!

but with Barniers commments yesterday

These are such awful global times. We need to be forging stronger alliances. Not splintering.

Regarding Brexit and Corbyn.

Corbyn is just as much anti EU as many of the hard line tories, you have been hoodwinked

This Tory insanity is far from over. It is just beginning. It can be stopped.

Not by voting Labour it won't

I'm the same. Used always to vote Labour. My constituency is one of the safest Labour seats in the country. My vote counts for very little. But if it did I'd be stuck. I want an all-party coalition to come out on a platform of having another Brexit referendum. I'd not only vote for that, I'd campaign for it.

I used to be a Tory, even at uni ... now firmly in labour camp. Id rather PC brigade than a return to bloody 60s Britain like everyone seems to want. Hint people ITS NOSTALGIA

Has any party actually taken a stance on women's safety? If I vote purely I will this issue who do I vote for? Ukip?

I feel like I have to vote Labour, when an election comes but the LM stuff is very disturbing to me. A known associate of men who say violent things towards women, who chose to take a stance on men's rights to run in the race for life, and who has a dodgy account set up in their name, and we are not allowed to question their motives? Very disturbing.