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Hypothetical; General Election has just been called...

244 replies

Thadeus · 13/03/2019 12:51

....how are you going to vote, would you even bother?

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MillytantForceit · 13/03/2019 15:42

Seriously considering drawing a big willie across the ballot paper.

Justanotherlurker · 13/03/2019 15:42

Corbyn's Brexit proposals are actually workable.

This is why we are we are.

Corbyn's proposals are not workable with even a little more reading other than the headlines.

For one he wants "a" custom union whilst doing away with FOM, that's not workable from the EU..

People have to stop being so tribal at this point in time.

LetheBiscuit · 13/03/2019 15:45

I really can't understand people who vote Conservative after all this crap they've put us in. "Because I always have" is a rubbish reason.

I've always voted Labour, but would probably have to go Lib Dem since both Labour and the Tories are awful right now.

badlydrawnperson · 13/03/2019 15:45

If the new independents came out as a pro-equality party and promised safeguards for females and had their ranks swelled by enough other defectors in time for the election to make them a viable party... then I'd vote for them, no question.
They'd have to get a wriggle on to have a candidate in every seat by the (theoretical) Election Day.

BareBelliedSneetch · 13/03/2019 15:46

In my constituency last time the Tory candidate got more votes than labour and Lib Dem together. 🙄

I will not vote for this shower of shite Tory party. But they will win here regardless.

I will not vote for labour with JC at the helm.

So I guess it’s a pointless vote for the Lib Dem’s.

Justanotherlurker · 13/03/2019 15:47

I really can't understand people who vote Conservative after all this crap they've put us in. "Because I always have" is a rubbish reason.

Tribalism is the same on both sides, problem with an effective 2 party state.

Its labour who shat one the floating centrist voters in the early days of Corbyn.

Tiss a shit show.

Sexnotgender · 13/03/2019 15:49

I’ll spoil my ballot.

NoWayNoHow · 13/03/2019 15:50

I find it quite astonishing that people would rather vote Tory than Libdem. I also hated their betrayal on tuition fees, but really, compared with the evil the Tories have unleashed?

^^ this with bells on.

Everyone says that they can't trust the Lib Dems because they got in bed with the Tories, but it was really only after the Tories got full power back that we saw really and truly how much having a coalition was holding the Conservatives back.

I'd definitey vote Lib Dem - you couldn't pay me to go anywhere near the current Tory or Labour mob. Having said that, I've been SO disappointed by Vince and his deathly, resounding silence whilst Brexit has rumbled on. This would have been a huge opportunity to build the party back up again.

ValeurNutritive · 13/03/2019 15:50

I vote in a Labour safe seat. Would probably vote Lib Dem, not that they are an inspiring option at present.

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 13/03/2019 15:52

Really tough question. My local MP (Stella Creasy, Labour) is fine, but I don't know if I could vote for Labour ATM, even given the alternatives. Depressing.

JellicleCat · 13/03/2019 15:53

SNP and glad to have a 'meaningful vote' that is neither Tory or Labour. If I lived in England I'd vote for whatever candidate was most likely to keep the Conservatives out, be that Labour, Liberal, Green or Monster Raving Anything, though I am no fan of Corbyn.

FishesaPlenty · 13/03/2019 15:55

Everyone says that they can't trust the Lib Dems because they got in bed with the Tories, but it was really only after the Tories got full power back that we saw really and truly how much having a coalition was holding the Conservatives back.

Well said.

otterturk · 13/03/2019 15:58

Tory. No question.

AngeloMysterioso · 13/03/2019 15:58

I’m in one of the safest Tory seats in the country, so a vote for any other party sadly wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s written on.

whatswithtodaytoday · 13/03/2019 16:03

I'll probably vote Lib Dem. The Tories always win by a huge margin here so it doesn't really matter, but I like to try to vote tactically for whoever I think stands the best chance of beating them.

I'm a Labour party member but furious with Corbyn over Brexit and am really just staying a member do I can vote for a sensible adult like Cooper or Starmer when the chance finally arrives.

PrimalLass · 13/03/2019 16:06

SNP

tararabumdeay · 13/03/2019 16:08

Doesn't matter in my constituency as bastard tories could put forward half a dead pig stuffed in a suit and it would still win. Come to think of it that's what our MP reminds me of anyway.

BejamNostalgia · 13/03/2019 16:13

I live in a Labour area so likely any pro-Brexit party except for UKIP. Won’t vote for them because of the recent flirting with Tommy Robinson

LakieLady · 13/03/2019 16:13

I'd love to vote Labour, but live in a Tory/LD marginal, so will vote Lib Dem.

I've voted in every GE since Feb 1974 and didn't manage to vote for a winning candidate until 1997, when the LD candidate won. I actually had a half decent MP until 2015, when an ineffectual Tory dimwit was elected. They subsequently joined the ERG, despite the constituency voting to remain.

DoodleLab · 13/03/2019 16:14

Depending on the stance of the individual candidates standing in my constituency on women's rights and identity politics issues, Green or Lib Dem. I'd happily vote for someone like Theo Simon, even though most of the rest of the party is a complete shitshow. If both were pro- gender bollocks, spoilt ballot paper #sexnotgender

wolfmom · 13/03/2019 16:15

I always vote, would be a cold day in hell before I voted Tory.

NameChangeNugget · 13/03/2019 16:15

Conservatives are 10 points ahead in the polls, FibDems languishing 4th behind the new party & Labour in a mess.... what a great choice we have at the moment....Hmm

Theworldisfullofgs · 13/03/2019 16:16

Libdem

Or possibly green or TIG if we have a candidate.

Not voting Tory (austerity, Brexit etc) and not voting labour as they have lost the plot.

Samcro · 13/03/2019 16:18

labour

GroundhogWeek · 13/03/2019 16:27

Probably Lib Dem’s, assuming they would be standing for stopping Brexit.

(Sadly I live in a Tory safe seat)