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

[Ponderousness]

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

I'd spoil my ballot

Labour don't care about women and are fully paid up members of the trans rights bandwagon, which means removal of same sex spaces. Greens refer to women as "non-men"

Live Dems same.

Tories best on that front but otherwise a total basket case.

Maybe SDP, but they don't always field candidates. Otherwise spoilt ballot it is!

I don't understand why people are so surprised that other vote Conservative... surely it's obvious?

*other people

@DaphneBridgerton

I don't understand why people are so surprised that other vote Conservative... surely it's obvious?

No it isn't to me...but then it might not be to you that I'm a Labour supporter. Why do you vote them?

"surely it's obvious?"

No, not really. Not unless you are one Boris's rich mates, why on earth would you vote tory? At government level they have shown again and again they are utterly incapable of running the country by any sensible measure.

If you prefer to vote locally, well my local scottish Tory MP is an utterly useless prick who does absolutely nothing for his consituents other than telling us how grateful we should be for being in the union. I've met him twice during election campaigns and both times he refused to answer a fairly simple 'what will you do for this area' question and did nothing but slag the SNP off for a solid 10 minutes.

Everyone will say Labour! They always do! Then the results come in and..well.

Nobody. They are all shit.

There are more than two options you know

If it's a choice between something you know is shite and something you are pretty certain will be even more shite, then the first lot of shite wins I'm afraid.

I neither like, nor trust either party but I would vote for Cons over Labour because sunlit uplands are a myth. Labour would be a different sort of shite but shite nonetheless.

Fuck knows. Something like covid is supposed to be the firework up the arse that changes the political landscape but all I see is more of the same self serving (Tory) or virtue signaling(labour) and no actual leadership. If I could I’d say fire the lot and start again.

And I voted labour last time but I can’t imagine Corbyn would’ve handled C19 much better.

I suppose I did live in an area where Greens t a look in but they’re worse than Labour!

From my perspective, it is the Labour party who are "incapable" of running the country, unless that involves bankrupting it.

There is no evidence to suggest the Labour party would have handled the pandemic better, and we'll never know for sure as the situation was unprecedented really. So while I do not for a second disagree that the government has handled the pandemic badly, I don't accept this as evidence that another party would have handled it better.

That's a couple of my reasons and I'm not even trying to make my post about Conservative vs Labour, as I have quite mixed political views.

My point is, I find it hard to believe that anyone could simply not understand why someone would vote differently to them... when there is a vast spectrum of people in this country, with different upbringings, educations, families, financial situations and values.

What I believe is fair, important or best for my family or the country is just different to what a Labour support believes.

There are many more options, if you vote locally instead of tactically.

I may now be resigned to remaining a bystander in national politics. I was a card carrying Labour Member, active with local issues, for about 35 years.... no longer.

Probably Cons, although I hate them atm as Brexit is such a nightmare. But I prefer Sunak to Dodds.

Labour.
You won't get a representative picture on MN though.

Labour or green.

Still Conservative unfortunately . Labour are doing a very good job of criticising everything with the benefit of hindsight and to make political mileage out of a pandemic - neither of which helps anyone at all.

Conservative. They are the only party who knows what a women is.
Having said that I am hearing good things about the SDP who could be a good option for disillusioned voters on both sides.

Enb76
I love your summation!

Labour.

And I didn't vote them before.

Labour

But if we had PR, Green

Labour.

@DaphneBridgerton

From my perspective, it is the Labour party who are "incapable" of running the country, unless that involves bankrupting it.

There is no evidence to suggest the Labour party would have handled the pandemic better, and we'll never know for sure as the situation was unprecedented really. So while I do not for a second disagree that the government has handled the pandemic badly, I don't accept this as evidence that another party would have handled it better.

That's a couple of my reasons and I'm not even trying to make my post about Conservative vs Labour, as I have quite mixed political views.

My point is, I find it hard to believe that anyone could simply not understand why someone would vote differently to them... when there is a vast spectrum of people in this country, with different upbringings, educations, families, financial situations and values.

What I believe is fair, important or best for my family or the country is just different to what a Labour support believes.

Ordinarily I would agree with you.

However, the current cabinet has, to a man, shown itself to be entirely consisting of self-serving, talentless arseholes who have made blunder after blunder.

What I don't understand is how even the staunchest of tory voter can look at the shower of utter cunts who are in charge currently and not think 'Yup, there is no way anybody could possibly do a worse job than they are doing, maybe I will investigate other candidates this time around'.

Labour, but it wouldn't make a difference, a donkey with a blue rosette would get in round here.