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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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HarveySchlumpfenburger · 20/05/2019 13:28

Cheesed off that the Remain vote will be split.

Given the way that seats are worked out, then a two way split might work better. It’s where there’s a 3 way split that it might be an issue and lead to a leave party getting an extra seat.

chemenger · 20/05/2019 13:28

Spent a fortune getting a proxy vote form in on time (temporarily abroad) and voting Lib Dem.

Ivestoppedreadingthenews · 20/05/2019 13:28

I think Lib Dem is a safer bet probably. In a very very Brexit area so may not have much impact. Hoping there is a low turn out and my vote makes more of a difference.

MerchantOfMenace · 20/05/2019 13:28

Kiss - if you are still close enough to get to your old polling station, you can still vote there if that's where you are registered. You don't need to have the voters card to vote

JudgeRindersMinder · 20/05/2019 13:29

LibDem for me, I can’t bring myself to vote SNP

blackfriars · 20/05/2019 13:29

So this is saying as a PP said - for everyone not in Scotland or Wales, vote Lib Dem: www.remainunited.org/be-tactical/

Oakenbeach · 20/05/2019 13:30

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

Head in hands.... Nigel Farage will love the way remainervoter is promoting the splitting of the remainer vote.

A unified Remainer voice after the EU elections is more important than the number of seats won. We can’t let Farage divide and rule!

reluctantbrit · 20/05/2019 13:31

Postal vote already done. I voted green. With LibDems a fairly secure one I think the Greens are the next one needing more votes.

And voting Greens is something I normally do anyway (not at UK elections unfortunatley).

Even if people say their vote is lost thanks to FPTP, each vote which is not UKIP/Brexit does count as it shows that people care and the people supporting these idiots will go and vote.

PinguForPresident · 20/05/2019 13:33

Lib Dems.

truthisarevolutionaryact · 20/05/2019 13:34

How terrifying to have to vote for a party (Lib Dems) so totally committed to eradicating women's identity and sidelining the safeguarding of children.
I'm not sure that even facing the insanity of Brexit I can ignore that Sad

ethelfleda · 20/05/2019 13:34

A unified Remainer voice after the EU elections is more important than the number of seats won. We can’t let Farage divide and rule

This

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VeniVidiViciTwice · 20/05/2019 13:34

Voting Lib dem. There was another thread yesterday which was discussing this and the remain website, there was some queries on that thread about the legitimacy of that website. I will find the thread and link.

gingergiraffe · 20/05/2019 13:34

Lib Dem postal vote though I now understand in the South West Remainers are now advised to vote Green.

Fink · 20/05/2019 13:34

The website linked above suggests Change.UK for me, but I won't vote for them or Lib Dems (because of their role in the Coalition). I'm going to vote Green. I don't love them, and I wouldn't normally vote for them (I particularly dislike their opposition to faith schools), but they're the only Remain party that I can stomach right now. There are a good few independent candidates in my area, but I haven't seen any information from them about what they stand for. Everyone else in my household (of voting age) is also voting Green.

TheRollingCrone · 20/05/2019 13:34

Will hold my nose and vote Lib Dems even though they don't know what a woman is - Sad
I can't see me ever voting Labour again

ethelfleda · 20/05/2019 13:35

Gina Miller talking about how to vote

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NeverPutAWetFootInABirkenstock · 20/05/2019 13:36

Disappointingly, the remainunited.org website doesn’t include NI in its stats at all. Surely by this point in the Brexit debate people have noticed that NI actually exists?

DarlingNikita · 20/05/2019 13:37

Lib Dems, I think, even though I'd rather vote Green; I'm in London and the Lib Dems do quite well.

LonelyTiredandLow · 20/05/2019 13:39

Lib Dem voter here (SE). I'm worried people who would have voted LD now won't (remain voter told me to vote Change UK) so am sticking with what I was planning to do. I also don't want any confusion over whether my vote is remain or something else - Change haven't had the dry run of the LE's to be told the reason people voted for them wasn't anything to do with Brexit Hmm but I can only imagine what spin a vote for them will be interpreted as. I do understand the reasoning and the system but as a previous LD voter, I won't be changing to Change when LD's also need a stable vote.

goodwinter · 20/05/2019 13:40

Yep, but not sure who. I'm Green at heart but might vote Lib Dems in order to vote with the "remain movement" as it were.

Fink · 20/05/2019 13:41

NeverPutAWetFootInABirkenstock Although I don't think that website is brilliant in other respects either, they do explain why they haven't included NI.

Firstly. NI voters can express a preference, like proper STV, whereas the rest of the UK only get to choose one party.

Secondly, the number of parties vs number of seats in NI means its all up in the air and even more difficult to predict than anywhere else.

And thirdly, they probably recognise that the number of NI voters who would be prepared to switch between unionist-nationalist parties is completely unknown but probably small.

dottiedodah · 20/05/2019 13:42

Will be voting Lib Dem this time, dont really trust Jezza and they seem to be a pro remain party.Wanted to vote for them in local elections .but none standing here in Bournemouth then sadly .

Friolero · 20/05/2019 13:42

Lib Dem for me (as usual!).

MulticolourMophead · 20/05/2019 13:44

Voting Lib Dem here, in a true blue region. So blue, in fact, that there was never any doubt that our constituency would vote Leave.

But the youngsters have a vote now, and from memory, the referendum votes held in schools were all for remaining. Certainly a vote in my DCs school had Remain at 80%. DD is now excited to be able to vote.

GirlsBlouse17 · 20/05/2019 13:45

Yes Lib dems. If you want a second referendum then vote Lib dems.