General Election....who are you voting for and why?

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Just like the title

Conservative. The other parties are a joke.

Not surprised to see so many saying Labour on here as MN is very left leaning. Hope they won't be too disappointed when the Tories get back in.

For me it means not Tory

Labour.

I'm a teacher. My school has lost around £600 per pupil in the last three years. Academisation, cuts, narrowing of the curriculum, decimation of SEN provision and inability to fund some basic supplies have destroyed our young people's education, not least because we struggle to recruit and retain staff.

Young people face the prospect of £40,000 worth of debt before they've even properly started in life. This is how we reward the future nurses, social workers and doctors of our country.

My local hospital is full of hardworking and lovely staff, but also struggles to recruit and retain. Services have been cut to the wire. I genuinely worry about what would happen in a medical emergency. I can't even get a routine GP appointment for three weeks.

I live near a very deprived ward in the country and the scale of poverty is shocking. I witness it with children every day.

In a so-called civilised western country, the above is shameful.

I'm keeping an open mind about the viability of Labour's proposals but I'd rather vote them in to see if we can at least to attempt to halt the way in which society has gone in the last 9 years. If you vote Conservative, in my opinion you are voting for these issues I've highlighted above to inevitably continue.

Of course they will be disappointed Silvery. Many people will be feeling sick with anxiety at the thought of more years of Tory rule.
I'll go one further and say that the many traditional Labour voters, who have been persuaded to vote conservative this time around will be bitterly disappointed over the next few years.

Really have to wonder at 'the other parties are a joke'.

Yeah agreed, labour are a comical mess, Lib Dems have always been and continue to be ridiculous.

But Boris Johnson? I cba to even mention all the ridiculous things about Boris, fucking clown. Except it's not funny at all what Boris and his hideous friends have done to people in this country whilst in government.

I won’t be disappointed, I’ll be absolutely gutted. Dd is due to start school in the coming years, I’m relying on the NHS to keep me alive, my parents are heavily involved with supporting people with learning and physical disabilities. Another 5 years of the Tories is going to decimate this country and all that live in it. Unless of course you’re a millionaire.

SNP.

Awrite Phillipa is an amazing woman.

TimeTravellingDiamond, I agree but my friend (who is disabled and struggling on UC and has relied on food banks to feed her kids) is voting Tory because she "thinks they are best for my family"
She is of course entitled to think that, but I think she's missed something over the last few years

I’m spoiling my ballot due to being left wing and pro women’s rights

This!

Hope they won't be too disappointed when the Tories get back

Its not a question of disappointment for a lot of people but dread and fear.

SNP

I'll be voting tactically to try and get my Tory MP out.

colouringinpro... Yes. I voted leave. So lib dem and green are out. Labour don't know what the hell they want. Except to get the country into huge amounts of debt as that is what they would have to do to come good on all these unrealistic promises.
Tory is the lesser of the evils for me.

Not the Tories because I don't like to see the disabled, the poor, schools, the NHS etc etc systematically either demonised or cut to the bone even more than they have been already. Another Tory government and the NHS will no longer exist except in name and our schools, despite the efforts of many dedicated staff, will not be fit for purpose.

I’m voting for our local independent because the tories have no chance in our area, the Lib Dem’s are a car crash, can’t vote the brexit party as they want no deal, and I’d rather eat my own head than vote labour. Also I emailed him yesterday and he made it crystal clear that self id is a non starter for him and he will very definitely vote against it.

SNP because I believe in independence and I'm a Remainer. I'm also left wing (until 20 years ago a Labour voter) and the SNP's general policies are a good fit to my core beliefs

I'm in what used to be a safe Labour seat but the former incumbent was ejected in 2015. He's now telling people to vote Conservative as he is a strong leaver (shows how out of touch he was/is with his former constituency as it voted 70% Remain ).

I am not a lover of Corbyn but I think the damage the Conservatives have done to this country is awful and I fear we are moving more and more to the right.

^this.

An ERG led hard right government will trash this country with its no Deal Brexit and I fully expect more authoritarian policies too.

Labour. I work for the NHS. I also don’t hate people who haven’t had the opportunities I have had.

SNP. Very much looking forward to seeing the back of my local tory MP who has done fuck all for the area in favour of keeping his head firmly up the arse of whoever is in charge at any particular moment.

The tories are going to get a majority though. I don't think there has been a clearer example of turkeys voting for Christmas in the history of anything. How anyone can look at Bojo, Raab, Cleverly et al and think 'yes, I trust those people' rather than 'what a bunch of useless stupid privileged cunts' is completely beyond me.

Labour. Not that it will make a huge difference as I live in a Tory safe seat, but slowly but surely other parties are taking a larger vote share. Last time the Tory incumbent merely got 50% of the vote rather than a 50% majority 😂

If the brexit party had been running, I would have been interested to see how they did round here. UKIP never really made much of a mark as this area is Conservative through and through, however at a constituency level Brexit did hugely well at the European electrions in a way that UKIP never did. I don’t think they would have won the seat, but I think would have given the tories a real scare.

Conservative, Labour have an away-with-the-fairies economic plan that will bankrupt the country and would leave all the NHS lovers on here bitterly disappointed!

The Labour manifesto is fully costed, the Tories is not. So you have no basis to say that Labour will bankrupt and the Tories won’t, because there’s no way to compare.

Even if the original manifesto was properly costed (and it's not - it relies on current low interest rates, unproven growth figures plus tries to pretend that only the wealthy will pay more tax - despite removing married couples allowance), the sudden magical appearance of £58bn for the Waspis is definitely not.

How can that be credible? You know that that's half the size of the NHS budget? And it's just appeared from nowhere. Who will pay? SO don't give me that fully costed nonsense.

Conservative
I have a small business.
Corporation tax in the UK is 19%. Corporation tax in Ireland is 12.5%. Corbyn wants to put corporation tax right up to 26% . Some businesses will go bust. Some businesses will move to Ireland. The tax take will go DOWN. Then where will he get his money from? The vast amounts of money needed for his nationalisation obsession. He'll get it from ordinary people on low incomes. Corbyn openly admires countries like Venezuela. Result: poverty and unemployment and hunger for the many not the few.
(I used to vote Labour and I would again if they were proper Labour not Momentum.)

I change my mind all the time. They're all full of shit.