To ask how you will vote in the General Election

[SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum]

..... 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?

Would vote lib dem but there's no point in my constituency so it'll be a tactical labour vote as usual.

A life long Tory voter here but will be voting Lib Dem this time

Independent will get in as always and she has voted recently as I would have wished or Alliance as no LIb Dems. Would vote Labour if there was one standing. Anyone but the DUP

Tory stronghold, high leave vote.
So Conservative.

(a) Under the FTPA Boris needs 2/3 of all MPs to call an election : not going to happen soon

It will very likely happen this year, after October 31st. Bookmakers think November is the most likely date, closely followed by December. Later than that is very unlikely.

(b) By the time any election happens, Brexit will have kicked in
It shouldn't have, as a result of this week's legislation (but who can say anything with certainty anymore).

(c) The next election is - under current law - in 2022
See (a)

(d) Odds on who the party leaders will be by then?
I'd be very surprised if it isn't the existing leaders but there is a chance Boris might resign.

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

Always voted Labour but can't bring myself to vote for Corbyn, so it will probably be Lib Dem. Frustratingly I live in safe Tory seat with an MP who only ever votes with the government.

For those thinking of voting Lib Dem .... they're the reason we're in this bloody mess.

When Nick Clegg was Kingmaker, he chose to side with the Tories, thus allowing David Cameron to be in charge, and eventually leading to his fabulous idea of a referendum.

Had the Lib Dems gone in with Labour, we would have had a much more centrist government, which I think would have been far more palatable to most people.

I voted Lib Dem tactically to keep the Tories out ... and a Tory government is what I got. I'll never trust the Lib Dems again; they're as self-serving as the Conservatives, despite their Remain stance.

And for what it's worth, I suspect Labour would continue with Brexit, but seek to keep the Customs Union and free movement, which will help enormously with many of the issues being foreseen as major problems.

@Swisskit

I disagree.

I didn't vote Lib Dem under Clegg because I foresaw the coalition in the event of a hung parliament.

A Lab/Lib government didn't have the numbers. A rainbow coalition might have worked but, once-upon-a-time, we had a thing for stable governments.

The coalition government was a little to the right of centre. It was the Lib Dems being decimated in 2015 and Cameron getting a majority government that fucked everything up (which Cameron himself would agree).

@Swisskit (again)

Yes, if in government, Labour policy is to negotiate a new Brexit deal then put it to a second referedum Vs Remain.

Ah yes, blame the LibDems for moderating the Tories
because once the Libdems were out of the way, the Tories ramped up Austerity and called the Brexit Referendum
excellent

Is anyone abstaining on the grounds that none of the parties can be trusted?

Late to reply to this. I will be turning out, as people fought and died for our right to vote. However, I would have to spoil my ballot paper. There is no one that I would like to be running the country right now.

Oh God, every time I read things like this , I remember people in my constituency actually vote for Nadine Dorries.

In our area we’ve had:
Conservative
Conservative (ad nauseum)
Labour
Labour
Labour
SNP
Conservative

Difficult to know what to do - hate the Tories, distrust SNP and Jeremy Corbyn?

Serious question.
Does any working person, and by that I mean someone who has to work in order to pay their bills and live a decent life, not someone who works but could afford not to, vote conservative and if so why?
The majority of working people ( see simple definition above) are better off under a Labour government.
How on earth can you use a state school or the nhs and vote conservative.
Now I can understand the likes of those who are loaded or born into wealth and privilege and do not use state schools, public services or the nhs voting conservative, but working people - why?
And please don't bother with all this ' I don't like Cornyn stuff'.
Why are you voting for a party who will financially screw you over?

I am in a Tory stronghold seat. Our MP was new to the seat in the 2017 when the old one retired. We now have a boring fart who has little of interest to say, always votes with the government and always toes the party line.

I am a remainer as far as Brexshit is concerned, and I shall also vote tactically, so it is likely to be LibDem.

Labour

LibDem

Lib Dem. I live in a traditionally tory are, but some excellent lib dem candidates unseated some tory old times in the recent local elections, so anything is possible

Probably lib dem. Usually a Labour voter in a Labour strong hold but have disagreed with my Labour MP in some of her voting choices earlier this year. More broadly, I have been disappointed in Labour's lack of stance on Brexit, although JC has impressed me in recent days but I think that is because he has been forced to toe the line with the other party leaders and sing from the same song sheet.

Oh, and I could never vote Tory, not only because of Brexit but because of UC and their austerity policies.

Lib dem.

I live in a safe Tory seat with a MP who is more concerned about his political career than anything else so always votes for the government and won’t ever step out of line probably in the hope of gaining back a ministerial post (sacked by Johnson) . It was a remain constituency and locally almost all the town and district Tories lost their seats last year (mainly down to local issues) but there is a glimmer of hope.

emilybrontescorsett

I wonder that too.

Labour, but the Tories always get in where I live, and I can’t see that changing unfortunately.

SNP for me. Once Scotland is independent I will reassess my political standpoint based on which parties emerge. I can't think of any reason I would ever vote for a right wing MP.

If I was English, I would be struggling between Labour and Libdems, but Labour would probably get it for me.