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How are you voting in December?

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MaMaMaMySharona · 30/10/2019 07:27

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.

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DawnOfTheDeadleg · 30/10/2019 08:51

Of course people are going to vote based on Brexit. Because we're essentially having a quasi second referendum dressed up as a GE, for reasons of political expediency all round, but too many politicians are unwilling to admit it.

Iggly · 30/10/2019 08:51

I like to know because I want to check and test my point of view. I may have missed something and it’s good to discuss these things and see how people interpret things differently to me.

Debate is healthy.

NerdyCurvyInkedandPervy · 30/10/2019 08:52

Anyone who says they aren't voting Labour because of Corbyn is using a pretty poor excuse to justify where their vote is going.

You might as well just stand up and say 'i want the NHS to be privatised. I want our schools to be underfunded. I want nurses to rely on foodbanks to feed their children. I want austerity. I want the well off to avoid paying taxes. I want to work until i drop dead despite having paid into a pension all my adult life. I want to continue watching the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

It is your vote, and you have every right to cast it where you want. But for God's sake, be honest and find a better excuse than 'Anyone but Corbyn'.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 30/10/2019 08:52

Labour. I don't agree with everything Corbyn says but I'm looking at the bigger picture. I'm in a Tory stronghold though so they will probably win.

Gertrudesgarden · 30/10/2019 08:52

SNP.

TheGirlFromStoryville · 30/10/2019 08:52

I live in a Labour marginal seat but the constituency voted leave.
I can see the BXP doing well here.

People have a deep distrust of Corbyn and his policies.

CanICelebrate · 30/10/2019 08:53

Conservative

Waxonwaxoff0 · 30/10/2019 08:53

To be honest I think if you support Labour but won't vote because it's Corbyn is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

DBML · 30/10/2019 08:54

@leavesrfalling

Likewise I couldn’t see why anyone would vote labour - none of them know what they are talking about, ever. I just put palm to head whenever I watch a Labour MP on Question Time. As for Lib Dems, Jo Swinson is pure awful.

Conservatives have let us down, but a lot of that is to do with the other parties playing party politics.

Labours manifesto is also very costly...increase minimum wage; free tuition fees; care policies. All which will likely mean people like me and DH who work very hard and earn too much to be entitled to any help, will be expected to pay more. Therefore whilst I’ll see other people get better off, I’ll get poorer no doubt. That’s what I’ve come to expect from Labour.

bellinisurge · 30/10/2019 08:55

@Waxonwaxoff0 , that's naive.

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 30/10/2019 08:55

conservatives....they will get my vote.

VictoriaBun · 30/10/2019 08:55

Conservative , and that is said by someone who sees themselves as a Labour voter.
I am old enough to remember as a child the 1970s and the chaos that the Labour party of the time brought.
3 day week
Power cuts.
Rubbish in the streets due to bin lorries /council strikes.
Same for back log of the dead due to no cremations and the storing of the bodies.
Bread /sugar/toilet roll shortages. People queuing up and being rationed to one of them.
For me Jeremy Corbyn is a Labour politician of that time and I do not want that for my family ,not the nation again.
To add , I do not believe leaving the EU would lead to that.

hen10 · 30/10/2019 08:56

OpportunityKnocks I feel exactly the same - there may be quite a few of us. Voted remain, but accept sadly that we lost. Can't abide Boris - he will be insufferable if he gets a majority. Can't vote for Corbyn - just don't consider him to be a potential prime minister, Labour are in such a mess. LibDems want another referendum - didn't realise you could do 'best of three' on these; that's not going to work out well for the country if it happens. So, I guess a vote for the Greens? Not sure what they stand for re: Brexit but I guess they'll improve recycling round here.

HouseworkAvoider10 · 30/10/2019 08:56

If I could, I would vote Labour.
I broadly agree with most of what Corbyn says.

Some newspapers have printed outright lies by Corbyn and he has borne it well.
He should be PM.

But he won't be because people are afraid of socialism and they remember the economic inertia of the 1970s.

I would never vote for the Tories.

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 30/10/2019 08:57

OP are you keeping a tally of votes? If so up to press what is the result? or shall I go back myself and count and stop being a lazy bum?!!!

LucileDuplessis · 30/10/2019 08:57

Lib Dem here

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 30/10/2019 08:58

It's not an American Presidential election! You don't vote for a leader, you vote for your local MP

But people do vote for the party that has the leader they want to see leading the country

Labour would stand a better chance against May because she was seen as weak but many won’t vote for Corbyn for a number of reasons stated over and over again

So you think Labour won under Blair because there was a sudden influx of of great local labour MP’s most people are not even aware of the name of their local MP

ArialAnna · 30/10/2019 08:58

Sorry, but I think all those people proudly saying they will spoil their ballots are completely misguided. Politicians do not care that you have turned up, but didn't vote. You might as well have not turned up at all. All they care about is that you don't vote for their opponents. Voting for the least detestable option (as hard to decide as that may be...) is a much better use of your time.

Oldbutstillgotit · 30/10/2019 08:58

Not sure yet but will vote tactically to try and unseat the SNP arse we currently have.

Speakeasy22 · 30/10/2019 08:59

Probably SNP to get Jo Swinson out (my MP). She has a poor voting record and is undemocratic. But I’d vote against independence.

Bibijayne · 30/10/2019 08:59

Lib Dem.

Xiaoxiong · 30/10/2019 08:59

Safe Tory seat in a strong Remain area so I'll vote Lib Dem, they're the most likely to give my bone-idle useless Brexiteer MP a scare (though probably no chance of unseating him, sadly).

Every election I wait for him to come canvassing so I can give him a piece of my mind about how he never responds to emails or letters about constituents concerns and cancels his surgeries without notice - he never has Angry

fotheringhay · 30/10/2019 09:00

My Labour MP is outstanding and I'd vote again for her regardless.

Having spoken to a LOT of voters, most do vote for the prime minister they want. And that's heavily influenced by newspaper headlines at the last minute.

It's amazing how many people say they will definitely vote, but haven't decided who for. Actually scary how much influence the media have - it's not (just) a left-wing paranoid myth!

Justcallmebebes · 30/10/2019 09:02

Another Tory vote

LaurieMarlow · 30/10/2019 09:03

Why anyone would vote Tory after the absolute shit show they’ve subjected us to for four years I cannot fathom.

Worst government in living memory.

Are people just thick?