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To ask how you will vote in the General Election

237 replies

SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum · 04/09/2019 23:30

..... if Boris ever manages to announce when it is.

Will you stick to your usual Party or vote tactically to ensure the Brexit you believe is best for the country?

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DrVonPatak · 06/09/2019 20:10

Lib dem all the way.

Paintedmaypole · 06/09/2019 20:10

Labour, although I think Plaid Cymru will win the seat. At least no chance of a conservative win here

Iamdobby63 · 06/09/2019 20:11

Conservative

Ohflippineck · 06/09/2019 20:12

Tactically here.

Bahlindah · 06/09/2019 20:14

Difficult this time. Tory, never. I can't believe people would vote Lib Dem so easily when they got into bed with the Tories so readily, so that's out.
Circumstances (and leaders/MPs) have changed. Lib Dems are principally a firm Remain party so there's no real risk of them propping up the Torries.

LatteLove · 06/09/2019 20:15

I don’t know, I’m not keen on any of them really!

SNP will clean up in Scotland.

Autumnwindy · 06/09/2019 20:16

The sad thing, and true thing is a vote against brexit is vote agaisnt democracy.

I don't know how I explain this to my young children... We voted and lt was stopped.

How many people throw integrity, democracy, morals under the the anti brexit bus!?

How will you explain this to your children? How!

Manontry · 06/09/2019 20:17

With a fat pencil on a piece of paper.

LatteLove · 06/09/2019 20:21

*The sad thing, and true thing is a vote against brexit is vote agaisnt democracy.

I don't know how I explain this to my young children... We voted and lt was stopped.

How many people throw integrity, democracy, morals under the the anti brexit bus!?

How will you explain this to your children? How!*

I don’t get this. We have a Parliamentary democracy. The referendum was only advisory and if Brexit doesn’t happen it’s not because of a lack of “democracy” but because it’s been a fucking train wreck that we should never have had a vote on in the first place.

Democracy is electing your MP and having them represent you in Parliament and the party with the largest number of MPs forming a government.

Personally I’d rather explain to my kids that there were responsible elected representatives that tried to stop us being screwed over than have to explain to them why they have to put up with the shitshow that will be a no deal Brexit

ChidiAnnaKendrick · 06/09/2019 20:22

Tactical Lib Dem vote as nobody else has a hope of coming close in this safe seat.

Bh2579 · 06/09/2019 20:24

Always been Conservative but appalled at current leadership.

Probably will vote Lib Dem even though in Tory stronghold.

Can I not just have a free vote for Ken Clarke?

Bahlindah · 06/09/2019 20:28

@16Autumnwindy

I'll tell them that we had a Referendum in which is was arrogantly assumed by politicians that Leave couldn't win. As a consequence, voters were promised a Brexit that was simultaneously ill-defined and impossible to deliver

Leave won and the government spent 3 years trying to deliver the impossible but they couldn't. There was a majority of MPs who wanted to deliver Brexit but couldn't decide what it should look like (something that really should have been considered more fully before the referendum).

Because of the unresolvable deadlock we ended up having another general election. I voted for a party that favoured a second referedum, whereby an actual, concrete and deliverable version of Brexit was put to the voters (instead of the unicorn Brexit they had been promised).

ElleDubloo · 06/09/2019 20:30

Lib Dem

shitpark · 06/09/2019 20:32

Labour, even though Corbyn has disappointed me lately

ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans · 06/09/2019 20:32

I have been politically homeless for quite a while now. If Theresa May was in power, I would be torn. I didn't like her political views but she has courage and perseverance.

If BJ is PM, I will vote tactically against the conservatives. I live in a safe seat so it probably won't make a difference but I find him abhorrent.

SuzieQ10 · 06/09/2019 20:33

Not sure. I live in a v labour area so they are sure to get in as they always do. However I don't feel I can vote for Labour this time around.

LillianGish · 06/09/2019 20:35

How will you explain this to your children? How! The Brexit promised by the Leave campaign was a lie. They promised we’d easily get a deal and then other countries would be queuing up to do trade deals. The Irish border didn’t even get a mention. I can’t believe anyone actually voted to crash out without deal with all the long term damage that will do to the British economy? Personally I think it will be a lot harder to explain to your children (who at the end of the day are the people who will have to live with the consequences) why politicians were able to force through something they knew would f* up the country when they were unable to deliver on their false promises.

lau888 · 06/09/2019 20:41

It won't matter which party I vote for as it would not affect the result in my constituency. It would probably be more interesting to know which party people will vote for in weak constituencies where a few votes would make a difference.

Ohflippineck · 06/09/2019 20:46

Lattelove

“How many people throw integrity, democracy, morals under the the anti brexit bus!?“

Anti-Brexit Bus. Interesting choice of analogy. Freudian slip? (anyone remember £350 million each week for the NHS? ......)

😂😂😂😂🤮🤮🤮🤮

Mummadeeze · 06/09/2019 20:47

Lib Dem - as usual. I agree with their manifesto more than the others each time I have researched them all.

LatteLove · 06/09/2019 20:48

@ohflippinheck that’s not me who said that, I was trying, badly, to quote someone else!

jesuschristwtf · 06/09/2019 20:49

Tory party always

Ohflippineck · 06/09/2019 20:49

Sorry Latte 😊. I’m skimming through, bad habit.

Theworldisfullofgs · 06/09/2019 20:53

Libdem or labour.

I live in a tory stronghold with an absolutely useless, lazy mp. And urghhh....Boris.

ListeningQuietly · 06/09/2019 20:58

(a) Under the FTPA Boris needs 2/3 of all MPs to call an election : not going to happen soon
(b) By the time any election happens, Brexit will have kicked in
(c) The next election is - under current law - in 2022
(d) Odds on who the party leaders will be by then?

(e) How many political parties with Nigel Farage have left by then while never calling a by-election when he changes ?