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

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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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FinallyHere · 13/01/2022 00:18

I'm very cautiously optimistic and the launch tomorrow of Gina Miller's True & Fair party

True & Fair Party
Launch Event Invitation

Dear Xxxxxxxxx,

Tomorrow Thursday January 13 the True & Fair Party will launch!

Due to ongoing Covid guidance, attendance in person will be limited to accredited members of the press, but you will be able to watch a livestream of the event from 9:30 am at: https://qeiilive.com/trueandfairr_

Watch heree*

The event will consist of a short video, our recent polling results, followed by a speech by Gina Miller, the Leader of the True & Fair Party. There will then be a question-and-answer session with journalists.

Gina Miller commented: “There is an urgent need to modernise the UK’s political system – so that the concerns of ordinary people are heard and heeded, and trust is restored. The True & Fair Party will advocate for vital changes to the practice and machinery of government and I look forward to laying out the first part of that vision.”

We thank you for your pre-launch support and interest, and very much hope you will join us and share the link.

#TrueAndFairParty

Coronado2 · 13/01/2022 00:24

Labour.

I can't believe anyone would actually vote for conservatives again. Literally anyone could do a better job than them. Let a bunch of primary school kids run the country and they'd do a far better job. This government doesn't have a shred of compassion or integrity amongst them.

AllThePogs · 13/01/2022 00:26

There always seem to be a lot of Conservative Bots on MN.

BlueBellsArePretty · 13/01/2022 00:27

SNP

StoatMilk · 13/01/2022 00:30

Boris

GreenWhiteViolet · 13/01/2022 00:31

Nobody.

I voted Tory last time, but I don't think they deserve my vote right now. Too much authoritarianism and hypocrisy.

I won't vote for a party that believes, or pretends to believe, that men can become women.

And I'm not a communist.

So that rules out all of them.

Booklover3 · 13/01/2022 00:33

Whoever looked in the best position to knobble the Tories.

stinkycheeseman · 13/01/2022 00:36

I kind of feel I could do a better job than anyone on offer at the moment. Obviously BJ would be first up against the wall.

stinkycheeseman · 13/01/2022 00:38

@Nat6999

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.
This is the kind of MP I have room for in my party.
madisonbridges · 13/01/2022 00:50

Conservative. These parties really frustrate me but they don't make me overlook bigger issues. My Tory MP seems ok. He's modern, toes a bit too much of the Tory line but he's led the fight for quitea few issues against the govt. I live ina Tory council and I guess they're ok but... fix the bloody roads! Starmer has no policies other than his latest wheeze to just spend as much as possible while standing in front of a flag. I don't even know what the LD stand for anymore. Greens...I don't know the last time I even saw anyone from the greens so they're not interested in my vote. So unless Starmer shocks me and comes up with some comprehensive, tied together, rational policies, I guess it's the Tories.

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SecretKeeper1 · 13/01/2022 00:51

@GreenWhiteViolet

Nobody.

I voted Tory last time, but I don't think they deserve my vote right now. Too much authoritarianism and hypocrisy.

I won't vote for a party that believes, or pretends to believe, that men can become women.

And I'm not a communist.

So that rules out all of them.

Nail on head. How depressing.
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GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 13/01/2022 01:31

For my local MP who is Labour - she’s a very good MP (and politician generally) and I wouldn’t want to lose her. We’re a swing seat too.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 13/01/2022 01:33

We had a chance to change the voting system a few years back but sadly people were taken in by Cameron’s (vacant it turns out) charm at that stage.

hopperrock · 13/01/2022 01:33

Tories have been in 11 or 12 years now, Labour had 13 years before that and danced us into a housing crash and economic recession.

You think the Labour Party caused the 2008 US sub prime scandal, subsequent financial crash and global recession?

Despite the whole garden party business in which the toxic vulture-like-media are jumping on currently

The Prime Minister breaking guidelines and lying repeatedly in the House of Commons is merely "garden party business" but the media reporting it is "toxic and vulture-like". And the people who are upset because they missed saying a final goodbye to a loved one while No10 were busy partying are the ones who have "fallen for it"?

And those voting Conservative because of self ID, please think hard about whether that issue really outweighs the suffering that this government has caused. They are not champions of women's rights, they are just reactionary. Is it so important that you'll vote for populism, demagoguery, corruption and lies? Losing the NHS and the right to protest?

LemonSwan · 13/01/2022 01:56

Not happy with any of them atm.

Wouldnt vote for Boris again because of numerous reasons

Wouldnt vote for Starmer because he doesnt know what a woman or cervix is.

I would probably vote for Rishi or Liz Truss. I have no idea about potential Labour candidates I could vote for.

Superhanz · 13/01/2022 02:28

Anyone to get the fucking tories out with a view to never getting in again. Bastards.

Nightlystroll · 13/01/2022 04:17

You think the Labour Party caused the 2008 US sub prime scandal, subsequent financial crash and global recession?

They didn't cause it but they must have known it was coming. It had been reported in the broadsheets for a couple of years before. My dad told me about it and he had no idea about finance. So even if the Treasury didn't have its eye on what was happening in different parts of the world, all they had to do was open the Times, the FT, the Telegraph and they could read about. Brown was meant to be this money wizard (I won't mention gold prices), why didn't he get us prepared for it whilst in the Treasury and even more so as PM. Instead of leaving it and then making last minute negotiations of bailing out banks on favourable terms for the bankers. He should have been reforming the banking sector long before the crisis hit our shores. Other countries rode out the crisis because they had money in the bank and hadn't just kept spending money they didn't have because it looked good with the voters.

Jabbawasarollingstone · 13/01/2022 05:17

I'd like the voting system to be changed for a start. But besides that...

In the last London elections we could vote for 1st and second preference so I voted WEP first and Count Binface for second. I didn't actually want either to win, it's just I couldn't give my vote to any of the main parties (inc Green). It was that or spoiling the paper.

In a GA it would be tough. My MP is Labour and has a massive majority. She turns up on my doorstep when she wants my vote. Otherwise she leaves most of us constituents alone. I can't vote for her as she is Labour (poor women's rights policies, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have killed my street, knife crime keeps going up and up, a Leader who looks like a deer in the headlights all the time) the Tories are a bunch entitled wankers, LibDems don't know what a woman is and want to rejoin the EU (not a fan) and the Greens are just batshit mad. I'd have to vote a fringe party again to fulfil my obligation to vote.

UniversalAunt · 13/01/2022 06:01

I have always turned out to vote.
At this time, I could not vote for any of the main or peripheral political parties.

For the first time, I may spoil my ballot paper.
I’d like to see a ‘none of the above’ option on the ballot paper & have that counted in the results.

UniversalAunt · 13/01/2022 06:05

As an aside, my local MP has a stinking majority, it is a completely safe seat.

But given the electoral demographic here & the main parties’s stance on TWAW, I reckon many female voters here may hesitate giving their vote to the sitting MP.

Chanel05 · 13/01/2022 06:05

I'd spoil my ballot.

UniversalAunt · 13/01/2022 06:10

Stonking.

I’m sure said MP is quite fragrant.

Shamoo · 13/01/2022 06:16

My local MP is Lib Dem and absolutely excellent, so makes the decision easy.

How anybody could consider voting Tory after this shower of shit is beyond me. It used to be that people voted Tory for self interest (lower taxes etc) but you don’t even get that now. Lies, corruption, theft from the public purse, utter utter incompetence on a national and international scale. How could anybody contemplate it - totally beyond me.

UseOfWeapons · 13/01/2022 06:20

I’d spoil my ballot paper and write ‘ none of the above’ on it, if I wasn’t comfortable voting for a party.

Mrsbloodypurchase · 13/01/2022 06:23

Social Democratic Party SDP

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