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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?

OP posts:
chillpizza · 13/03/2019 18:24

Tory no point voting for anyone else and labour is a joke anyway.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 13/03/2019 18:24

Between a rock and a very hard place. Women died so I could vote, so I shall do so in any event, but will probably end up voting Green as the rest are such a shambles.

Oscar sums it up perfectly for me. I've got to vote simply because it goes against every fibre of my being not to. But I can't knowingly vote for either main party in the current state they're in.

MinisterforCheekyFuckery · 13/03/2019 18:27

I honestly don't know.

I decided to give up my labour party membership this year having been a life-long labour supporter. My local labour MP is great but I don't want a government with Corbyn and McDonnell at the helm. But I could never bring myself to vote Tory, not in a million years. Lib Dem or Greens feels like a complete waste of a vote. The idea of not voting is unthinkable to me but I genuinely don't know who I would vote for. It's a worry.

MutantDisco · 13/03/2019 18:27

Fucking hell, people voting Conservative without a second fucking thought.

WHY???!!!!

I won't be voting for anyone, despise Corbyn the misogynist/Brexiteer and hate the Tories even more. Maybe if TIG field a candidate?

FilthyforFirth · 13/03/2019 18:29

Labour very grudgingly. Nothing on gods green earth would make me even consider voting Tory.

How is anyone watching the shitshow that is Brexit and even remotely thinking 'there's a party I want to keep in power for another 5 years'? The mind boggles.

SilverySurfer · 13/03/2019 18:36

Tory - look at the alternatives. Labour led by the unelectable and economically illiterate, the LibDims, a one policy party or the Greens, a bonkers policies party.

Thankfully PR, or a form of it, was voted against in a referendum.

alliwantisagoodnightssleep · 13/03/2019 18:38

Based in Scotland. Would hold my nose and vote Lib Dem. Anything to get the current SNP incumbent out.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 13/03/2019 18:41

Conservative.

DameFanny · 13/03/2019 18:45

Labour.

Tories just want to sell everything to their mates, charge you for the air you breathe and tell you it's your fault for not working hard enough

Liberals can't be trusted and in most constituencies those votes just end up letting the Tories in

Greens don't have enough support so any votes increase likelihood of Tories getting in

Not in Scotland

IsabelleSE19 · 13/03/2019 18:50

Like some PP I cannot believe that after the complete fucking mess the Tories have made both by calling the referendum and by making such an embarrassing shitshow of Brexit people will still vote for them! They are burning money, near enough, with no one else to blame but themselves. They are the worst government of my lifetime.

In response to the OP, I am so disillusioned with all the parties that I think I would have to just judge a GE on my local candidates and issues and try and forget Westminster. I live in a very safe Tory seat though so it's all irrelevant really!

itsstillgood · 13/03/2019 18:50

Tory first time ever at a GE (age 40). I don't like them but better than the alternative (I'd even consider anything over Corbyn) and I have found my local MP (Tory) to be supportive, actively helpful and genuinely nice when I have had reasons to seek her help a few times.

TonightJosephine · 13/03/2019 18:58

@Surfer I hate to break it to you, but the Tories are now an economically illiterate bonkers single issue party.

And AV is not a form of PR.

malificent7 · 13/03/2019 19:00

Green....like a shot.
Hell will freeze over before I vote Tory. They use their prejudiced policies as an excuse to fuck up the economy even more than it was fucked up under Labour...and that's saying something!

malificent7 · 13/03/2019 19:01

Would prob vote Labour too.

PotteringAlong · 13/03/2019 19:07

Maybe conservative, maybe lib dem

hedgeharris · 13/03/2019 19:10

I’m hoping the independent group run in my seat. I’ll vote for whoever is backing a people’s vote, but not labour unless Corbyn makes his position clearer. I don’t trust him to deliver a referendum after last night

Justanotherlurker · 13/03/2019 19:37

They use their prejudiced policies as an excuse to fuck up the economy even more than it was fucked up under Labour...and that's saying something!

Someone with a solid grasp of economics I see, especially considering the threads you have started...

It's also ironic that someone so concerned by economics that you would vote Green.

FoxFoxSierra · 13/03/2019 19:37

Labour because fuck the Tories and fuck the lib dems too

Ronsters · 13/03/2019 19:38

Probably conservative, though I may not vote at all next time.

joystir59 · 13/03/2019 19:40

Labour. I think Corbyn is a man of principal and he restored my faith in the Labour Party

Darkbendis · 13/03/2019 19:40

SNP

joystir59 · 13/03/2019 19:41

People who don't use their vote should be deported.

DropZoneOne · 13/03/2019 19:43

Lib Dem but I'm in a Tory safe seat

joystir59 · 13/03/2019 19:44

People who don't use their vote should be deported to live in a undemocratic country.

Desperateforspring · 13/03/2019 19:44

I cannot vote for A labour government Which is more of a threat to the economy than crashing out of the EU.

So conservative

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