I suspect that at the next local elections I'll be voting to keep my existing independent councillors, as it's about local issues not an opinion poll on Westminster (or Cardiff).
A party at Downing Street isn't going to influence my vote in the slightest. It's trivia as far as I'm concerned, not the sort of issue significant enough to outweigh more important matters in a general election.
I'm more concerned about food security, defence and energy generation. On food security, it seems to be the policy of both Whitehall and Cardiff (but worse in the latter) to pay polluters to greenwash their images by turning productive farmland into forestry.
On defence, no party have got a great record (though nothing would be worse than the unilateralist policies espoused by the mercifully former Labour leader).
On energy generation, both main parties have finally backed nuclear power, though the dithering by the Blair government has cost us precious time.
I'm also concerned about public transport and again can't find much to appeal to me. At least Boris has a thing for hard hats and grands projects so we might see some decent rail infrastructure (despite several projects for the North East getting kicked into the long grass).
Women's rights too - Boris has finally come out and supported women's rights to privacy, safety, dignity and fair play. Starmer just appears to be too cowardly to say it out loud. Doesn't do a lot to build respect if he won't say what he really thinks, incoherent legalese won't cut it. Obviously if I was in Crispin Blunt's constituency, I'd definitely be sending my vote elsewhere - fancy defending a child molester.
Who will I vote for? Well in Wales we've had 23 years of Labour-led governments, I'm certainly not voting for that shower. Plaid are out, as they're nationalists. Both of them, plus the Lib Dems and Greens are happy to throw vulnerable women and children under a bus so I can't really vote for any of them. Still, the sitting (Conservative) MS is good, and the (also Conservative) MP seems reasonable (even if he seems to just follow the whip), he's even met with local farmers and is getting assurances from land owners that tenant farmers won't be evicted for yet more forestry. I also have to remember that a Labour government is likely to be one in coalition with the SNP. Something which I'd like to avoid at all costs.