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To ask if you are a remainer, are you voting on Thursday?

349 replies

ethelfleda · 20/05/2019 13:05

And if so, how will you vote?
I want to vote tactically against the Brexit Party so I am thinking LibDems. But knowing mn and it’s very politically engaged (not to mention intelligent) posters, I thought I would put this out there Wink

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WhatHaveIFound · 20/05/2019 13:17

I'm a remain voter and have voted Lib Dem.

newjobnerves · 20/05/2019 13:17

I was torn between LibDem and Change, decided on Change, but now that website is recommending Green Party, not sure I can quite bring myself to vote Green as a military family though :/ but I suppose as it's only European it's worth a punt.

MustardScreams · 20/05/2019 13:17

I’m pretty sure the remain voter website is backed by leavers, some of the suggestions they have made are utterly ridiculous.

I’m voting Lib Dem in the East.

Pinkarmchair · 20/05/2019 13:18

I'm confused about the website, in London it's saying to vote change UK?

SoupDragon · 20/05/2019 13:18

The websit linked to above suggests I should vote for Change UK.

Nogoodusername · 20/05/2019 13:19

Usual Labour voter, will be voting Lib Dem

newjobnerves · 20/05/2019 13:19

Oh I wonder if the Greens are secretly behind that website ha.

classedasarsehole · 20/05/2019 13:19

Lib Dem

Spudlet · 20/05/2019 13:19

I'm not sure we even have a Change candidate here, so it will be Lib Dem for me. I'm not keen but I voted Labour in the GE (tactically as they were second last time and I wanted to at least see our useless Tory MP's majority dented) and it was counted as a vote for Brexit... not falling into that trap again. Labour can sod off as far as my votes go. Might just as well vote Tory.

pigsDOfly · 20/05/2019 13:19

Yes, I'm probably going to vote for the Greens - for the EU vote only.

There doesn't seem to be much of a LIB DEM presence in my area and as the Greens have a fairly high profile here and are more likely to take most of the remain votes I'd rather go with them.

newjobnerves · 20/05/2019 13:20

I think I'll stick with libdem to be safe.

kaitlinktm · 20/05/2019 13:20

In the NW it says to vote Green - so now I don't know whether to vote Green or Lib Dem now.

(Not that I really want to vote for either due to their stance on women.)

RHTawneyonabus · 20/05/2019 13:20

I’m going to vote change UK after having voted Lib Dem forever in an attempt to get rid of Tory McToryman our MP since the last Ice Age or the council.

However remain voter suggests Lib Dem’s will very comfortably get two seats but don’t have enough for a third so by voting Change there is a possibility they might get one too fit to the complexity of the voting system.

RHTawneyonabus · 20/05/2019 13:20

Due to the

Hoppinggreen · 20/05/2019 13:21

Yes, voting Libs.
I don’t really agree with a lot of what they say but they are the only anti Brexit option available

ethelfleda · 20/05/2019 13:22

Yeah it seems the link cloud posted would be diluting the remain votes?

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Oakenbeach · 20/05/2019 13:23

@Cloudtree

I think remainervoter is well-intentioned but deeply flawed.

It’s based on:

a) polls that occurred more than a week before the election being sufficiently accurate and good predictors of the final result (at a regional level as well!) to make fine judgements on which Remain Party to vote for based on certain seats being “in the bag” for other Remain Parties. Recent experience (2016 Ref, Trump etc) shows opinion polls aren’t that accurate even in Election Day itself!

b) it assumes that just the right number of voters heed its advice to tip the balance finely enough to produce what they see as the optimum result. The chances of that happening are infinitesimal!

All remainervoter will do is promote a splintering of the remainer vote (and it’s voice after the EU election) in a futile attempt to optimise seats when what’s needed is a single unified response to the Brexit Party.

The Lib Dem’s have the momentum now (and I’m not a member and last voted for them in 2005 so have no vested interest here) so we need to coalesce behind them if we are to maximise the Remainer voice.

TheTitOfTheIceberg · 20/05/2019 13:23

Echo catgirl entirely.

ethelfleda · 20/05/2019 13:24

Oakenbeach LibDems it is then Smile

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blackfriars · 20/05/2019 13:25

I saw Gina Miller speak last week (she was AMAZING!) and she directed the audience to the website for her campaign on this exact issue - remainunited.org.

Thanks for this thread as it has reminded me to check out the website before Thursday!

RHTawneyonabus · 20/05/2019 13:25

It’s a good point Oaken if l switch over I hope too many fellow life Lib Dem voters don’t do the same or the whole thing goes tits up!

HelpAFattieOutHere · 20/05/2019 13:26

I'd be happy to vote lib dem or green.

Where I am it's very much conservatives Vs lib dem (has been for years, long before any sniff of brexit) so a green party vote would be a wasted vote. Lib den for me

BarbaraofSevillle · 20/05/2019 13:26

Well I looked on the remain uk website and now I'm confused and I realise I have no idea about the European elections Blush.

It told me to vote Green and said there were several candidates in my region, but doesn't say which one is standing in which region. Or sub division of my region.

I wonder how representative of the electorate the European election results actually are, considering hardly anyone votes in them, and either no-one seems to know what they are voting for, or many will just vote Labour etc, because that's what they always do?

Off to read up on who is standing and how to do a tactical vote. I thought it was lib dem, but the remain site says green, possibly because we're in a region with a Lib Dem area, so they expect them to win anyway?

Notabedofroses · 20/05/2019 13:27

I voted for remain and I will vote for the brexit party.

AutumnCrow · 20/05/2019 13:27

Lib Dem. It's the only way to be sure (Quote: Ripley)