How are you voting in December?

[MaMaMaMySharona]

Apologies if there’s already a thread on this - I did look and couldn’t find one.

So now it’s been confirmed that we’re having a GE in December, how are you voting? And what are your predictions on the results?

I’ve seen quite a few posts on here over the past couple months from people saying they wouldn’t vote now as they are politically homeless - wondering if these people still feel that way?

I’m voting labour - albeit in a very safe Tory area (so feel very much as though my vote doesn’t count). Reasons being I would never vote Tory and I don’t like a lot of what the Lim Dems have said recently. I also couldn’t bring myself not to vote at all.

@Iggly who do you think pays for the election?

@ShatnersWig are you absolutely sure you aren't a Tory?? The disgusting way you have spoken down to the two clerks doing the count? I hope you don't speak to people like that in the workplace. You sound a right nob.

I couldn't ever vote Conservative, they've practically destroyed this country. You must be quite young if you think this looks like a destroyed country compared to the 1970s and earlier.

NameChange a US presidential election is nothing like our GE though. My spoiling my ballot in an area that has been Tory since 1885 and the current MP took 60% of the ballot last time and the second placed candidate was on 20% will make NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER to the national outcome. It won't even make a difference to the local outcome. The Tories could put up a cauliflower, chuck a blue rosette on it and it would still romp home.

Now, comparing the presidential election to the referendum where you just had two options would make your point valid.

@ExecutiveFiat How do you know Corbyn has faced "smears" and that he doesn't have those unpopular views?
He absolutely used to go to many hardcore Irish Republican meetings in North London well before the Good Friday Agreement. That is NOT a smear.
I also know he is pro Palestine and has a polarised view on Israel. Driven by anti-Semitism? Possibly not but he has harboured those whose same views are driven by racism.

@baffledbeyondbelief

I know who pays 🤷🏻‍♀️

But if you think that a few extra hours is more important than exercising a right, then more fool you.

Conservative, without a doubt.

Well it definitely will not be the Conservatives.
It's like watching a version of the mad hatters tea party.

derxa could that possibly be something to do with 1997-2010?

My American friend just thinks UK employers are 'nicer'! It's just lucky chance that employment laws are better here than in the States.

She wants to move back but is staying here for the NHS.

Even clever people can be quite stupid

shinynewapple Of course I wouldn't. Their job is to count the votes no matter how the people have voted. It's ridiculous to say to people "don't vote in X way because I'm a counter and you need to think of me having to count them late at night" - this is a general election that is deciding (theoretically) who will govern for five years! If you don't want to stay up all night counting and earn £200 for so doing, don't do it! But don't moan about those of us who actually VOTE.

ABC

Lib Dem, unless they've got no chance in my constituency then Labour as I hold my nose.

Every vote counts, spoiling the paper means you have no impact on the result. Considering what's at stake I just don't get throwing your vote away. None of the options appeal to me, so I'm not enthusiastically voting for anyone but I'll be damned if I sit by and do nothing.

You must be quite young if you think this looks like a destroyed country compared to the 1970s and earlier

The Tories were in power until 1974 and again in 1979?

Every vote counts Not in a first past the post system like ours with more than two parties and in safe seats, it doesn't.

Lib Dem. Sensible policies, remain, donor like all their policies most importantly not insane . Tories have turned into hard right English nationalists (break up of union, islamophobia and complete disregard for truth - Johnson promised do or die brexit and doesn’t matter a bit and law breaking vote leave are running his campaign ...) and corbyn is extreme left (most critically his absolute refusal to deal with clear anti Semitism makes a mockery of his claim to be anti-racist - only anti racist if he supports the views of the minority you come from!) so Lib Dem all the way to ensure that neither of main parties gets a majority

defo not SNP.
Cant be bothered with border checks when travelling to England if and when the SNP try gain independence and try take us back in Europe.
That is the reason they are obessed with stopping Brexit and/or being in the customs union and single market.

Shocked and disgusted by the replies voting for Tory... after what’s happened. But I guess if you voted leave you’re voting for dickhead Boris

I feel politically homeless too. Although my vote feels largely irrelevant as my MP is Tory who repeatedly gets over 60% of the vote, so unlikely that tactical voting will have any impact at all.

Conservative

@NerdyCurvyInkedandPervy it was Labour who started off selling the NHS and the country. And new neo liberal momentum bullshit Labour are even worse. I wouldn't vote for them if they were the only one in the race. They are corrupt, faux socialist, woke, mysogynist scum.

Spoiling your ballot is beyond stupid. Nobody cares if you spoil your ballot only who won and who lost. It’s the same as if you’d never bothered to vote.

Although I’d never say it to their face, I’d think poorly of someone who told me they’d done that. Actually I’d think they were a bit dim and naive really.

This election is too high stakes to fuck around.

I'd remind all those who are trying to insult those who vote conservative, that that wasn't a strategy that worked very well for remainers now was it?
Listen to why people vote in a different way to you, actually listen.

Conservative...I don't like Corbyn's stance on leaving NATO. I don't like the WA, it seems like May's deal reheated, but it gets us out, and then we can hammer out an FTA which doesn't tie us to a level playing field on tax and state aid. I would have wanted to help British Steel and Harland and Wolff, but EU rules prevented it.

And voted to remain in referendum...

My local Labour candidate seems to be a fifteen year old on a skateboard. She wasn't interested in politics until she heard JEREMY CORBYN, and now JEREMY CORBYN is going to put the world to rights. Her friends told her she should look for a more winnable seat, but she disagrees because with JEREMY CORBYN she can overturn a 7000 Tory majority no trouble.