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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask who you are voting for and why?

269 replies

theworldhasgonecrazy1 · 11/12/2019 16:05

Just interested as I've been really debating with myself this year and am not really convinced by any party

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BloodyDisgrace · 11/12/2019 17:25

I am not voting, or voting for nobody (spoiling the ballot).

I agree with 98% of Labour policies but 2% - housing - will disadvantage me financially as a landlady who rents one house. If they all stopped at just building social houses I will be ok with that, given that the private rents (and my income) would go down. I'd accept that. But not more crap like licensing, landlords paying council tax, having to accepting DSS applicants, land value tax - all in manifestos of Green, Labour and LibDem.

I think majority will benefit from voting for Labour. I won't. I might end up being 200quid worse off every month and I can't and don't have to vote for that. Maybe I am mistaken, but I have abad feeling about the Labour party and I will be forcing myself if I were to vote for them.

DowntonCrabby · 11/12/2019 17:25

The SNP tactically as I want the Tories to lose the seat.

TheWaiting · 11/12/2019 17:27

@NameChangeNugget, you’re being something of a GF with that post but I expect you know that.

RufusthebewiIderedreindeer · 11/12/2019 17:28

Green

Said i would vote for whatever dd wanted and thats it...would have been dreadful if she wanted me to vote brexit but I probably wouldn’t have made the offer if I’d honestly thought that Grin

7dayslater · 11/12/2019 17:29

Labour, because I care about the NHS & can see what nearly 10 years of austerity has done. I think the Labour manifesto is fantastic.

ChristmasSpirtsOnTheRocksPleas · 11/12/2019 17:31

I’m voting Tory. Three generations of my family were oppressed under far left governments. I’m not about to make it five. I dislike boris immensely but equally I don’t want an economic crisis.

RedWineIsFabulous · 11/12/2019 17:31

Tory

JumpingFrogs · 11/12/2019 17:32

Safe Tory seat. Terrible MP who never engages with his constituents. In my heart I'm Labour/Green, but was very disillusioned with Labour sitting on the fence over Brexit. Was planning to vote LibDem (purely because of their strong opposition to Brexit), but actually quite like Jeremy Corbyn so I'm wavering. Tactical voting websites have completely confused me - one recommends voting LibDem but in fact Labour got twice as many votes here in 2017 ?? But maybe Tories here (strongly Remain area, very pro Brexit MP) will swing to LibDems ?? I really can't decide and will probably decide once I'm standing in the polling booth with my pencil hovering over the ballot paper!

needsomehelptoday · 11/12/2019 17:32

Lib Dem. it's them or SNP and I have no interest in scottish independence.

I used to quite like Lib Dem too but their stance on women's rights to single sex places has really annoyed me.

I did think about spoiling my ballot.

RufusthebewiIderedreindeer · 11/12/2019 17:33

conservative. As I I’m in employment

Oh for goodness sake, what a silly thing to say

CakeandCustard28 · 11/12/2019 17:35

Labour. Even though I’m not a huge JC fan... anything is better than Boris Johnson.

SubordinateThatClause · 11/12/2019 17:35

Labour. I live in a marginal seat but would have considered LD this time as I'm really not happy with Labour leadership or their approach to Brexit.
My main concern though is stopping Johnson and his far right crusade through our public services. My dc's school stands to lose over £300 per pupil in proposed cuts and the thought of prices in drugs prices destroying the NHS makes me feel physically sick. How did we end up in such a mess? I dread Rees-Mogg reappearing to crow on Friday morning. Can I hibernate?

Parky04 · 11/12/2019 17:36

Tory as I want Brexit sorted (and yes I know it will only be the beginning of negotiations).

Belledan1 · 11/12/2019 17:38

I have just been on whodoyouvotefor.com. Answered the questions and has given me some help deciding.

Choufleur · 11/12/2019 17:38

Labour. I’m in a strong conservative seat and labour is the only party With any chance.

I can’t see how the country can stand more years of conservative austerity.

The tax changes proposed by labour are not that left wing (particularly when you compare to many other western, European economies)

Public services are chronically underfunded and the conservatives are not going to fund social care, Heath, education, the police, fire ... sufficiently.

TheWernethWife · 11/12/2019 17:39

Labour because I care about the NHS, all this "I won't vote for Corbyn" is just bollocks, do they live in his constituency? It's not I'm a Celebrity vote for me. People should just bloody grow up, vote for the little green men for all I care but stop all this rubbish about Corbyn meeting the IRA, so did President Clinton, so did the Queen, I have a photograph of her smiling and shaking hands with Martin McGuinness.

Arnoldthecat · 11/12/2019 17:39

If i can be arsed to vote, i shall be voting for my monster loony candidate. Why? Because im in a Labour stronghold so there is no point in affording me a vote as he will get in again. The Loony is also a local candidate. The Con has been parachuted in and probably has never been anywhere near the constituency.

Ylfa · 11/12/2019 17:40

I can’t bring myself to vote conservative (safe Tory seat here)

Labour out of the question (even if I didn’t have some Jewish ancestry)

No love for lib-dems

It will have to be Green, those are the only candidates here 😕

danadas · 11/12/2019 17:40

Undecided.

Generally vote Lib Dem, will never vote Tory but the labour campaign to label anyone who won't vote for them as cruel and heartless who wants everyone to die is highly irritating.

I had young children under the last labour government and it wasn't all sunshine and daffodils..

Belledan1 · 11/12/2019 17:41

I so wish Labour had a different leader. Would make things so much easier

BloodyCats · 11/12/2019 17:42

I have a choice of Tory or labour in my area.
I’m voting Tory as I don’t want a second ref and I don’t believe a lot of labours policies will come true.

DowntownAbby · 11/12/2019 17:43

YABU.

You can't seriously be asking this on MN?

It will be 98% Labour!

MN is in no way representative of the U.K. as a whole.

fedup21 · 11/12/2019 17:45

Labour. I have fluctuated between Lib Dem and Labour previously, but am voting very strongly NOT Tory this time and Labour is our best bet here.

Boris Johnson is a lying racist idiot who will screw up our country.

ScreamingValenta · 11/12/2019 17:46

Labour -

  • Best chance of stopping Brexit (Lib Dems have no chance of getting in in my constituency)
  • Local MP is decent, hardworking and genuinely local to the area (Randomer Tory candidate has phoned in his campaign)
  • Corbyn is an arse, but he's less of an arse than Bojo
Bluntness100 · 11/12/2019 17:46

I'm not sure what's going on on mumsnet but as a pp said there seems to be a concerted effort to support and push the Labour Party on here. Clearly the responses aren't representative of the public,

Read into it what you will. But it's gone past believable.

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