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To ask you if there was a general election today, who would you vote for?

341 replies

Ponderousness · 20/01/2021 14:17

Just curious really. Seen a lot of hate for the governments handling of various things but they did recently win by a landslide and I’m not sure if people truly believe the opposition could do better.

So if it was just red or blue and there were a vote today, who would you vote for?

I’d vote Labour.

YABU - Conservative
YANBU - Labour

OP posts:
ittakes2 · 20/01/2021 14:19

It does depend who the leader of either party would be. My preference is not to vote for Boris but I am not keen on labour's current leader either.

FenEel · 20/01/2021 14:20

Labour

Plasticfish · 20/01/2021 14:21

It's all a shower of shit.

I'd say Labour is the lesser of two evils.

Langsdestiny · 20/01/2021 14:22

Labour

EnglishGirlApproximately · 20/01/2021 14:22

Labour without a doubt. Starmer hasn't performed as well as I had hoped but he's without a doubt a better option than Johnson. FWIW I'm not a dyed in the wool labour supporter, very much a floating voter. I just can't comprehend anyone thinking Johnson is a capable leader.

MsKL · 20/01/2021 14:23

Labour. Not keen on Keir but better than BJ!

DynamoKev · 20/01/2021 14:23

YABVU There are plenty of other options, SNP, Plaid, DUP, Sinn Fein, UUP SDLP etc etc etc
And you must be forgetting we have a green MP too.

Difference between Labour and Tories at present is like shit and shite frankly.

Brighterthansunflowers · 20/01/2021 14:24

Labour, same as before

Cuntitinthebin · 20/01/2021 14:25

I think the point of the post is who you'd vote for if there was only Labour or Conservative, so spouting alternatives isn't helpful.

I would exercise my right not to vote, but gun to my head, I'd never vote Conservative.

Kendodd · 20/01/2021 14:25

I live in a super safe Tory seat, it makes no difference who I vote for.

Given that, I still always vote. I think I'd vote Green. If my vote actually made a difference and we didn't have a fptp system, I'd have to think a lot harder. If there was any chance of getting our sitting Tory out, I'd vote for that (although not obvious the racist parties, I wouldn't vote for any of them).

DynamoKev · 20/01/2021 14:28

@Cuntitinthebin

I think the point of the post is who you'd vote for if there was only Labour or Conservative, so spouting alternatives isn't helpful.

I would exercise my right not to vote, but gun to my head, I'd never vote Conservative.

Well in that case it's a fucking stupid question unless OP means "In England only" which wasn't specified. In a UK GE there would be a fuckton of SNP votes (just for one example) and you can't even vote Labour or Tory in NI, so it's a ridiculous premise.
Svrider · 20/01/2021 14:29

Who indeed 😖

fimimifi · 20/01/2021 14:31

Labour

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 20/01/2021 14:32

If it was today, then I think for the first time since I was old enough to vote, I wouldn't bother.
I genuinely think they're all as useless and self serving as each other, with nothing to choose to vote for.
I truly wouldn't care which lot got in, things would still be shit.

BlueGreenDreams · 20/01/2021 14:33

I can't bring myself to vote for Sir Keir Starmer.
He is wet and appears to have no clear viewpoint on anything. He does a great line in saying "you're shit, do better" to the Tories but that's easy if you are not the one who has to implement the nesscesary policies.

I'm not in love with the idea of voting for Boris either so I guess I am a "don't know" at this point.

AnneLovesGilbert · 20/01/2021 14:36

Labour. And I’ve never voted Labour in my life.

Sprockerdilerock · 20/01/2021 14:38

Exactly the same as @Kendodd.

I'd vote Green but I know that a heap of shit would win if it was wearing a blue ribbon in my constituency. We've had the same Tory MP since I was born.

If I lived somewhere else where they had a chance I'd go Labour though!

CakeRequired · 20/01/2021 14:48

YABVU There are plenty of other options, SNP, Plaid, DUP, Sinn Fein, UUP SDLP etc etc etc
And you must be forgetting we have a green MP too.

But none of those parties will ever win a GE. Most are for one country only. They are pretty pointless in a GE in the grand scheme of things. Better one to include would have been lib dems really, they used to be third biggest and the only one that would actually get seats in more than one country. SNP has overtaken them for now, but I'm not sure what the next results will be in all honesty up here.

But regardless, there's only two voting options, so she could pick two. Why not choose the two biggest?

My vote doesn't really matter, I'll get snp no matter what. But on one hand, I'd prefer labour because I'd like to see if anyone else can do any better. On the other, I want tories to win because I don't think bojo should get away with what he's done and he should be forced to remain in power until he has a complete breakdown. But that's just because the devil in me wants to see him suffer a bit.

Crankley · 20/01/2021 14:51

Conservative, of course, the other parties are risible.

1Morewineplease · 20/01/2021 14:53

Neither

FourTeaFallOut · 20/01/2021 14:53

Labour. I voted Labour in the last election too but I would feel a lot more confident in that choice this time around.

Screwcorona · 20/01/2021 14:54

Conservative 100%

AgeLikeWine · 20/01/2021 14:59

Labour, now that the grown-ups are back in charge. Not that it will make any difference, seeing as I live in one of the safest Tory seats in the Midlands...

justoverthehorizon · 20/01/2021 14:59

I would spoil my paper. ,and I don't say that lightly.

Justanotherlurker · 20/01/2021 15:02

It would have to be conservatives as the others are just not worth voting for

Labour - Former leader felated himself silly to communist fantasies and current leader is Captain Hindsight, largest party with free membership acting as a lightning rod to inexperienced students, communists and nutters.

Lib Dem - Tory lite with an unhealthy EU obsession

Greens - Believes solution to our countries financial problems would be to print more money, aswell as being a party of 5G conspiracy theorists and genuine fruitcakes.

Brexit/ UKIP - not sensible at all but does a great job at draining the labour parties votes.

SNP/ Plaid - Greedy separatists who are set on becoming a name in the history books rather than helping their actual constituents.