How are you voting in December?

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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.

Because Swinson has stated that even if there is a second Referendum, and the result is again to leave, she will continue to ignore it. The message from her is there is no point in voting. The voters are irrelevant in her world. Our opinions have no validity. Hardly Democratic is it? I listened to her announcing in T.V. Last night she was preparing to be Prime Minister. My response was a cross between laughing hysterically at her naivety, and swearing loudly at the television.

It will be labour, I would imagine the BNP BXP will field someone in the area, so no idea how things will go locally.

Really surprised anyone can still vote Conservative. Where I live has suffered drastically with austerity. Am behind Corbyn and Labour all the way. Although if I was back home in Scotland I'd be voting SNP. It's a shame Nicola Sturgeon can't become PM.

I've never lived anywhere that my vote actually counted, always very red or blue with very little swing. I would vote for anyone who would bring in PR but because we don't have PR it wouldn't count.

I'm hoping someone independent stands. Our local Conservative MP is pretty good but I'd never vote for him, or Labour now. It's awful to be interested but disenfranchised.

Well they’re thick as shit then namechange. Wait until they see what happens when we do leave and their lives as still as miserable as they were before. I wonder who they’ll try to scapegoat then!

leckford

It is really better to vote for the least worse option.

It really isn't.

But then you should be questioning why we still don't have a NOTA option when it has been ratified by the electoral commission.

It amazes me that working class people don’t see that Tory-Lib Dem austerity caused all the problems we have. The EU has done nothing but benefit us. Voting for Tories, Brexit and making poor people even worse off horrifies me.

Wake you actually in his constituency then? What has he been like as your MP?

Those saying they won't vote Labour under Corbyn. If Keir Starmer was leader, would you vote for Labour then? IDo you think, bearing in mind Corbyn's age, he would remain as PM for a full 5-year term anyway if he did win? He might be replaced in a year or two.

Sometimes I feel as though I read completely different newspapers to everyone else!

If by that you mean you read something like the Guardian. . then you are correct. The right wing gutter press Mail/Sun/Express outsell the remain papers by 3.5m to 200k

Jo Swinson is obnoxious and Lib Dem policies are the same as Tory policies. Austerity, destruction of the NHS, no discussion of reversing Universal Credit and other policies which have impoverished the most vulnerable people in our society even further, sending child poverty and food banks soaring. Jo Swinson is just a puppet of the establishment, working to keep the UK a place where rich and upper middle-class thrive, whilst those on lesser incomes struggle to get through each month. I will vote either Labour, SNP or Green - these are the only political parties that give a damn about the lives of those people struggling to make ends meet. Plus they understand the threat of the climate chaos that is coming our way.

Conservative

Highly likely I'll be spoiling my paper.

I woud love to know why people are voting Conservative, it can't just be based on your dislike of Jeremey Corbin or Jo Swinson. What do you see in them? And I am flabbergasted that people are voting for them because they live in a safe tory seat and there is no point voting for anyone else!

SNP here. Same for the vast majority of my friends and family.

I predict a Conservative win

I’m not sure who I shall be voting for have always voted Labour but haven’t since Corbyn and Co took over

Won’t vote Conservative as do not agree with policies

Won’t vote LD as I no longer believe it would be good to revoke article 50 and have always thought another referendum wouldn’t change the result. Not keen on Jo Swindon she has fallen into using the divisive language that has so split the country a very poor follow on Vince Cable

Maybe I shall spoil my paper. Live in a safe Labour seat

Conservatives. I don’t want to see a JC government and the other parties aren’t worth voting for as they don’t stand a chance.

Not sure - Lib Dem probably for Brexit reversal but I would have preferred a second referendum. My area is Tory , but Labour close second so I may vote Labour if Lib Dem way behind. I’ve always been more of a central floating voter.

I was always a Tory voter, up until Nick Clegg, I liked his policies, but he went back on them, I cannot vote Tory now for the fiasco that they have caused to our country. I cannot vote Labour as they are too much like Tory and I wouldn't want Corbyn as pm, so either lib dems or Green.

never, never Lib Dems after 9000 university fees fiasco.

Can Conservative voters please explain their vote?

The Tories have spent the last ten years trashing the economy, grinding down the very foundations of our country (most of us need state education and an NHS). They want to reduce workers rights which will benefit only very rich bosses.

Why?

Without saying “I don’t like corbyn” - that’s not a positive reason.

I’ve read plenty of Conservative literature and just don’t get it

I’d vote snp but I’m not in scotland.

Conservative.

Live in a v safe Tory constituency with a huge majority. I have always voted Tory but will not be as BJ horrifies me. My mp is one of his senior cabinet ministers. I am unsure how I will vote but our next door constituency has a significant chance of going Tory to Lib Dem. I think I will use my energy to support and canvass for this. Seems like the only thing I can do personally to contribute to the Tories not getting a majority. I think it will be hung.

I cannot believe how many people in here are going to vote for Boris after what he’s done.

SNP.
If I lived anywhere else in the UK I've hold my nose and vote Lib Dem.