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

Voting Tory is voting for a racist narcissist.

Labour but don't like Starmer and very disappointed with Angela Rayner (my MP) its like she's had a personality change but was this how she really was.

It's hypothetical, of course. If there's any chance of Johnson being a liability in four years or so, they'll have dropped him. Rumours were suggesting this could happen this Spring, before England's local elections in May - that's the County Council elections, of course.

In the borough elections, May delivered a wipeout because of her mishandling of Brexit. Same could happen again but don't count on it.

So the question might be, would you vote Conservative or Labour or Other in the local elections this year, assuming they're not delayed AGAIN supposedly due to Covid but as likely because, again, the Conservatives may be hit hard. It's suggested they may delay to benefit from the vaccine bounce, perhaps the reason it's 'full steam ahead' with the vaccination programme, despite some questions about the Pfizer jab.

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

Omg and Unionists wonder why support for independence is rocketing in Scotland! How fucking arrogant and patronising.... that "one country only" thing you mention Scotland is still part of the UK at the moment. Glad to see you think the majority of Scottish votes are "pointless"

First time ever I would spoil my paper.

It's really depressing as I think we need a change from the Tories but are labour a realistic alternative? Also people won't vote for higher taxes unless it's hitting others.

Conservative

Pray tell what Labour would have done differently during this pandemic other than being negative then voting with the Government?

Former red stronghold here. Labour didn't do a damned thing for the area because of it's safety then on the one thing they were asked to do (majority leave), they totally ignored and insulted the populace. Way to go.

There's also a growing perception that Labour is for the shirkers not the workers who are only there to be taxed.

No credible alternative to Conservative

We cannot be represented on the world stage by Keir Starmer any more than the awful Corbyn.

I’d vote Lib Dem. I’d like to vote labour, but they’ll never get in in my area, so I vote Lib Dem to try and keep the tories out.

@UrAWizHarry

Utterly astonishing that people would still vote tory after the shitshow of the last years.

I completely agree. How terrifyingly corrupt, incompetent and morally bankrupt do a party need to be for people to stop voting for them! They take money away from the poorest in society to give to their rich friends, do deals with genocidal governments and take the food out of poor children’s mouths. Utterly astonishing that people would still vote for them. The media certainly have a lot to answer for in convincing people that opposition would somehow be the worse option.

I am guessing this thread is for English people only.

It is shit that these two parties seem ‘the best’ that England can offer. I could never vote conservative but I understand why people do, as I get older and earn more and I can understand wanting to protect that. I find myself getting frustrated at the working middle being often forgotton with all major parties.

What a shit show it all is.

Conservative 100%

Conservative for me. I live in a safe seat and have voted Labour before but they're so far detached from the average person that they're unelectable for me. They give no shits about women and are too busy yapping on about hindsight and past rather than opportunities for the future.

Conservative safe seat! Not Labour

Depends whether Labour is still disenfranchising women and talking about socialism. If so I’ll vote Tory. But if their politics have moved back towards centre I’ll vote Labour.

I'm not a Labour supporter but I'd vote for them at the moment to get the Tories out. I realise this is how we got into this mess in the first place, ie people voting for change, but I can't take much more of this self-serving lying cabinet and abysmal during a pandemic.

Pointless AIBU labour will always win on mn.

I always assumed MN was quite conservative, the ‘how much do you earn’ threads certainly seem to fit into the conservative bracket And there’s lots of benefit/poor bashing.

But I think more people admit to voting Labour than Tory in general anyway

I don't think that's necessarily true. I've been on MN a long time and there was a lot more support for the Labour party 10 years ago and far fewer people talked about being a Tory voter back then. So there's been a shift.

The Lib Dems are totally untrustworthy. Say one thing and do another eg Student fees/voted for Tory Government cuts. Sponsored the Gagging Act that made it a criminal offence for Charities to make any comment that could be deemed 'political'. Locally ( no shame), look around for what other people are campaigning for and pretend they did it, say one thing in Tory areas, the opposite in Labour ones, voted for our local council to have a 60% cut in Government funding when Tory ones got a rise then complained it doesn't fund things.

Conservatives - not interested in the majority population at all - just protect the rich, their schools ( tax relief), their off shore tax havens, would sell anything to anyone to make themselves money - support vicious Governments ( Saudi Arabia ), privatisation of NHS / prisons / railways/ most public services and make a mess of them. Attacked Legal Aid,/funding for anything public - education ( large class sizes ), poor Teacher/Nurses' pay, starve BBC of money then complain it can't make good programmes, sell off anything and everything to foreigners/ their friends, leaving us with no industry etc. Make people who lost jobs /are ill wait (at least) 5 weeks for pitifully poor Universal Credit! Whole ethos is against public provision, think everyone should look after themselves!!! Tough if you can't. It's your own fault.The nasty party.

Labour - at least believe in the Welfare State ie Old Age Pensions, will protect NHS ( they founded it), will fund our public Education, will listen to concerns of the mass of people, will listen to Trade Unions, restore Legal Aid, look after those in Care homes, fund home care , fund local councils.
No contest - vote Labour for civilisation.

I'd vote Labour. As pp said there are other parties but none of them have any chance of getting in. However I'm not holding my breath for Labour getting in any time in the near future.

lol at voting for a party which has spread hatred of single mothers, held back abortion laws, rape laws and equality for women in society and the work place because they 'understand basic biology' (they dont, they just hate trans people like they hate every minority).

There is a government of members of the Conservative Party at present, not a Conservative government. The opposition is not one in anything other than in name.

The options you presented OP are only technically a choice. A very sad state of affairs.