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.

Lib Dem.

Will never vote for Labour as long as Corbyn is in charge, horrible, dangerous man. I'd make plans to leave the country if he was in charge. And I don't read right wing media! I've researched him carefully, spoke to party members who know him, listened and considered what he says.

Lib Dems are far from ideal, and I think they too have the wrong leader but she's the best of a bad lot.

If it was just a case of getting Brexit done, I'm ashamed to say that I probably would vote Conservative as, although I'm a Remainer, I want it out of the way now and I feel like Boris wasn't far off getting an acceptable deal. But can't vote for them if it means 5 years of them in power.

We need to get away from extreme right and left and need a decent centrist approach imo.

@SafetyAdvice0FeedWhenAgitated , they count spoiled papers. Imagine if there were eg 10% spoiled papers.
In the last French Presidential election, there was a disproportionately high number of spoiled ballots.
And there is the satisfaction of writing "They are all a bunch of wankers" or whatever on something you know will at least get read.

BeaBravo agree Boris is the clown, untrustworthy, charlatan etc.
However, Corbyn a “fabulous campaigner”! What have I been missing?
He has been mainly invisible other than appearing as a front man for Momentum in Parliament. What was his stance on Brexit? It was his policy not to reveal it. There are some good people in the a Labour Party but the hard left have stifled them.

Out of interest, why do people spoil their ballot paper? Is it so you are still using your right to vote?

In regards to who I’m voting for I’m not sure. I am not a fan of the Tories, I disagree with elements of Labour. I have always voted Lib Dem’s because I tend to agree with the majority of their policies and probably will when I read the manifestos before the vote but I have lost faith that they would deliver or would go back on key points. I live close(ish) to Brighton to read about all the bin men strikes so this doesn’t make me want to vote greens (although I’m not sure blaming greens for it is fair).
So to summarise, I have no idea who I’ll vote for.

@AmIThough Thanks for that heads up. I've looked it up and he has indeed had the whip restored. Once a Tory, always a Tory. At least that's made the decision easier and there'll be no more agonising.

SNP here

Lib dems here. Cannot believe anyone is considering voting Tory. You do realise they are destroying our country don't you???

If I'm honest I'm surprised anyone could vote Labour after their behaviour over the past few years - especially with Corbyn as leader.

See - it works both ways! I’ll be voting Conservative.

Spoiled papers just make more work for the little people at the bottom (like me) who work on the overnight count. Very, very rarely does anyone other than the staff actually see them... although we do get a giggle at the stupid stuff people write. And the obligatory crudely drawn penises

Will spoil paper.
I only wish there was an easy way to unregister to vote.

Oh. So tens of thousands of people willingly spoil the paper and so lose their voice? Why not just vote for the party they want? There must be one to vote for. These votes could actually bring extra MPs from different parties into their seat

SNP. My first choice would be Greens, but they have no chance of winning in my constituency.

I’ve voted labour all my life but I will never ever vote for them when Corbyn is in charge. So I shall vote Tory with a heavy heart but I couldn’t live with myself if I had any influence in labour getting in

Unfortunately it doesn't matter how I vote, in a labour stronghold that I can't see changing.

Not a clue. I live in a very safe Tory seat. Pretty pointless voting otherwise

stealth If the Tories do have a proper working majority on their own without going into bed with anyone (and clearly the DUP won't this time) then Johnson will get his WA through, yes, with all that entails for Ireland. Then we start the real negotiations over trade etc. At which point, the Tories should change their name and no longer call themselves (which is their official title) The Conservative and Unionist Party.

Why don’t you vote Lib Dem then.

And to the PP there isn't a single party I would genuinely want to vote for.

Anyone except the SNP. My natural instinct would be Conservative but I may have to vote tactically for Labour and spend all day trying to feel clean again.

Lib Dems. I would vote Labour but I don't like Corbyn and I hate the Tories.

I am mainly voting Lib Dems to get us to stay in Europe.

Out of interest, why do people spoil their ballot paper? Is it so you are still using your right to vote?

For me, yes. I can't not vote. I feel like the ghosts of the suffragettes would haunt me! It's my right to vote and I should vote. I've turned myself inside out over the last year or so trying to work out the best way around it, but it simply comes back to being a woman and feeling like we are being attacked from every direction.

@MaMaMaMySharona and @bellinisurge
Thank you for explaining it!

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weekellye Ah diddums for your extra work. People fought for the ordinary man and woman to have a vote. I'm entitled to turn up and make my vote as I see fit. If there is no point in voting for anyone standing, I will turn up and make my protest. I would rather politicians saw that X% are so fed up with them that they prefer to make the effort to go to the polls and tell them so, than simply staying at home and not voting.

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