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If there was an election tomorrow, who would you vote for?

590 replies

SecretKeeper1 · 12/01/2022 19:23

Obviously the Tories are a complete shitshow, but Labour aren’t a lot better and I couldn’t hand on heart vote for either in good conscience right now.

So… IF a snap election was called, like in December 2019, who would you vote for? Would it make a difference to you if Boris was replaced as Tory leader? Would you even bother voting or maybe go for a totally different national or local party?

Just curious!

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Treaclepie19 · 12/01/2022 23:03

I'd vote Green if I actually had the option but more likely Labour to try and keep the tories out.
There's no chance of getting them out where I live though.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 12/01/2022 23:05

@Andtheyalllookjustthesame

I would vote Labour to get conservatives out but I wouldn't be happy about it
Snap, I feel exactly the same.
Taciturn · 12/01/2022 23:09

Reform party

MayMiracle · 12/01/2022 23:09

Labour

Sabire9 · 12/01/2022 23:15

Labour

I vote for policies not personalities.

And have a very good Labour mp.

Kipperandarthur · 12/01/2022 23:15

Conservative

Sabire9 · 12/01/2022 23:17

Can anyone who wouldn't vote Labour (assume would be ok with another 5 years of Conservatives) say which current Labour policy is unacceptable to them. Unacceptable enough to continue with our current kakistocracy.

hulahooper2 · 12/01/2022 23:22

Def not tory

Player20868 · 12/01/2022 23:27

@MaternityNurse007, with you absolutely.

I'll vote for whoever, locally, will get the Tories out. I keep hoping one of the local beach donkeys will run, but where I live they'd only get elected if they were wearing a blue rosette, so the Lib Dems are the only (unlikely) option in a world that still uses FPTP. If you do the sums, in many constituencies, you'll see that more people voted AGAINST the Tories last time round than for them, yet they still got in due to our electoral system.

So many Tory policies damage women, whatever (some) Tory mouths might say about their views on what a woman is; their fundamental misogyny's right there to see in their legacies, especially when it comes to women not clever enough to have been born into a wealthy family or bagged a husband from the City or a Rees-Mogg clone...

And that damage is going to continue - making things much, much harder for local councils, especially those who dare be anything but Tory while rewarding already wealthy cronies with multi-mlllion pound contracts; the way the Home Office treats refugees; health and social care bill (those who hate the NHS are REALLY going to love what's likely to come next but the penny hasn't really dropped yet about just how expensive private health insurance is, especially if you have a pre-existing condition or two); right to protest pretty much being removed, just as a couple of examples.

That's before you even start on their environmental (lack of) policies and little things like being clueless on how to lessen the impact of the whacking great price rises heading our way on everything from gas to food. And I'm deliberately not mentioning the B word, which will really start to make itself felt this year (a lot of legislation relating to imports/exports hadn't kicked in last year).

Still, that nice Boris man has apologised for that little wine and cheese soiree in the garden now, hasn't he. That's what's really important...

giggly · 12/01/2022 23:30

SNP. But of course being Scottish means fuck all as
The English continue to vote the Tory fuckers in

Sabire9 · 12/01/2022 23:35

"I'll vote for whoever, locally, will get the Tories out."

I think this will be a big thing during the next election. Hopefully!

LookslovelyinSpringtime · 12/01/2022 23:38

Either Green or wouldn’t vote.

AllThePogs · 12/01/2022 23:39

Labour or Lib Dem, I will look at who the best local candidate is.

DappledOliveGroves · 12/01/2022 23:40

Tory.

They're the only party that can define a woman, and seem to be the only party resisting any new lockdown restrictions thank god.

To be honest, I'm surprised that people are shocked by Boris's hypocrisy and rule breaking. It's par for the course for most leaders. Do as I say, not as I do.

starfro · 12/01/2022 23:41

Conservative

(voted Lib Dem 2019)

Nat6999 · 12/01/2022 23:43

Labour, my MP is amazing, she works so hard for the area I live in. She fought the DWP for me when they tried to take my enhanced PIP off me & didn't take any shit from them, she took my case to the parliamentary team for welfare benefits as how not to treat a disabled claimant. I got my award back & have been awarded for 10 years.

daisiesonmydress · 12/01/2022 23:46

Tory

Ha, ha, joking! As if!!!

I mean really, who the fuck would STILL vote for these bunch of low life entitled shits.

Blinkingbatshit · 12/01/2022 23:48

@Sabire9 - Angela Raynor stating you can only be a member of the Labour Party if you agree twaw is my starting and finishing place🤷🏼‍♀️. Twitter, 11th Feb 2020.

Wandawide · 12/01/2022 23:48

Bojo drives me mad, we lived in London when he was Mayor it was OK. Now God help us all.
We now live in a Tory constituency and an active MP he is OK or better.
Local Councillors are all woke Lib Dems and bicycle fixations.
They have NO idea how to get a family of four to four different destinations before 9.00am without cars.
I would have to vote Tory.

Wandawide · 12/01/2022 23:55

Did I see that Corbyn is thinking about starting a new party?
If that took the weird ones away from Labour and Greens Starmer might have a chance.....

ScribblingPixie · 13/01/2022 00:01

My Labour MP seems like a coward. I was assured by one of her canvassers that she was very strong on single-sex spaces but she's silent about that issue and sent one of those 'not only women have cervixes letters' out. She was pathetic on anti-semitism too. It's only Lib Dems who can beat her & they're a horror show so I don't care which of them it is. I spoiled my ballot paper last time but that didn't feel good so I'll vote - god knows who for though.

CockSpadget · 13/01/2022 00:01

@Clackyheels

I'm not sure but fact people keep saying, 'Labour aren't a lot better' 'or what's the alternative ' infuriates me. How? How are any other party worse than the one in power right now? I honestly don't understand how anyone can use that to justify voting tory? Surely the answer is 'I don't know but I'm never voting tory again' are people not watching the same stuff as me??
This!
XelaM · 13/01/2022 00:04

@Clackyheels

"I'm not sure but fact people keep saying, 'Labour aren't a lot better' 'or what's the alternative ' infuriates me. How? How are any other party worse than the one in power right now? I honestly don't understand how anyone can use that to justify voting tory? Surely the answer is 'I don't know but I'm never voting tory again' are people not watching the same stuff as me??"

Agree with this. ANYONE is better than what we have. I'd reluctantly vote Labour only to get the Tories out at all costs! Although I find Labour leadership utterly useless as well.

AnnaMarieQ · 13/01/2022 00:10

Honestly I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️ I definitely wouldn’t vote Tory. Starmer is no more voteable than Corbyn.

Labour will get in in my area anyway. As the saying goes, “You can put a red rosette on a donkey and he’ll win here”.

None of the parties stand out for me. They are all useless

Zotter · 13/01/2022 00:12

The ever widening wealth inequality in the U.K. appals me. Britain is being taken even further to the right, and even further into an antidemocratic Libertarian deregulated free market capitalist dystopia where life is great for the very few and worsening for everyone else. I want the Tories out.

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