General election tomorrow - who do you vote for?

[IaminRome]

I'm so sick of this government and reading a lot of the posts on here, it feels like on the one hand, so are lots of people, but there are also lots of other people who are very sceptical about labour or lib dem or greens. Added to which, there are so many issues at the moment, I know there's a lot of GC and what makes a woman, that is particularly important at the moment, and cost of living, private rentals, the environment, etc etc

So knowing what you know about the parties, if there was a general election tomorrow, who would you vote for..

YABU - Tories
YANBU - Labour
Comment for a third option

I used to be green, but I'm so not sure any more. So I think I'd vote labour, to stand best chance of keeping Tories out. (What I'd really like to vote for is a more representative government)

Tories have been in charge for 13 years, whilst all this transgender shit has been going on but you think it won't get any worse if you carry on voting for them 😂

How are Labour, green, Lib Dem's responsible for anything that's happened during the tory government 🤦‍♀️

I'm voting Labour as I want to get rid of the shower of bastards that we are currently being forced to tolerate. I won't vote LibDem as I can't forgive them for propping up the Tories in a coalition.

Labour is the party of tax and spend and debt and bankruptcy.

Tories are the party of tax and give it all to their mates and debt and bankruptcy

At least Labour have always spent it on the country and not contacts they get massive backhanders for

Give it a year and see how many bankruptcies there are now QE and 0% interest rates have stopped

Wont be voting Labour though whilst Keir the red Tory is in charge

I mean Boris Johnson!! The ones before were bad enough but who the hell votes for a proven liar

I think you have to believe things that aren't true in order to vote Conservative in the first place.

@Colourfingers2 all I've done was rebut the myths you posted. If you have a problem with that, you're part of the problem the UK has - which is deep political apathy and illiteracy.

I want rid of the Tories, so I would vote Labour, because I think voting any other way means the vote would be split between the other parties and Tories may remain.

Ick.

I mean ideally i'd throw turds at all of them, we'd get a better voting system and there'd be a strong, honest, decent party .... but thats a dream, fantasy world where we have a Universal Basic Income, disabled people aren't treated like shit, animal welfare is taken seriously and the education system is turned on its head and made actually fit for purpose!

Until our electoral system changes to favour something other than vested interests and the status quo, then I refuse to vote (or rather I spoil my ballot). None of the parties (that stand a chance) represent me or anyone else I know. None of them will create the real change we need - they are just taking it in turns to re-arrange the deckchairs on the titanic.

Labour probably, though I would consider Lib Dem if it ousted the Tory MP we have.

I'd vote for ever promised to sort out all the bloody potholes!

To all the people who says they won't vote, the tories and Labour will be more than happy with that!

UKIP came from nowhere and scared the crap out of them to the extent we ended up with brexit!

Vote for an independent, vote for a small party like the raving lunatics, vote for anyone who will put the shits up the 2 main parties but for gods sake don't waste your vote, that will just mean we get more of the same for eternity.

I'd find an independent. I'm never voting for any of the 3 main parties ever again. None of them are worthy.

Tories are the party of tax and give it all to their mates and debt and bankruptcy

And record potholes,

and record high immigration,

and putting our mortgage up £400 a month,

and doubling our energy bills,

and taking away NHS dentists,

and making it more difficult to access healthcare generally,

and killing more British people from *cancer because of what their hobbling of the NHS has done to waiting lists.

*all causes really

And taking away our right of free movement across our continent

And removing some of our right to peacefully protest

And placing barriers to deter people from voting.

Tories are the party of Broken Britain. Nothing works in this country anymore.

And they broke it.

Boris Johnson only won because the opposition was the hapless Jeremy Corbyn who couldn't decide whether he was for Brexit or Not (or too frightened to say what he really thought!).

Up against Corbyn, Muffin the Mule would have won!

Don't vote for the party who has given us record pot holes though, eh?

They're good at making promises.

They just don't keep them.

Keir Starmer been in charge since 2020 - 3 bloody years and we still have no idea what his policies are ! He has no beliefs no policies he's just waiting to see which way the wind is blowing - sod that. I want a pm who knows what he stands for

It depends on your covstutuency. doesn't it?

In most seats, the candidate who can win will be a Labour one.

But in mine and in my parents Tory safe seats it will probably be Lib Dem.

We have to look at past results, listen to the pollsters and the tactical voting websites and talk to people in shops and pubs and make a judgement call.

We're in a solid lib Dem seat so my vote won't make any difference. MP is useless but it's impossible to get him out and there's no decent alternative anyway. Will spoil my ballot I think. This country is f*cked no matter who or what ends up in power.

I've been thinking we'd be better off with AI in charge.

I think of it as they reined in the Tories in the coalition.

Things got considerably worse after the next election.

A solid Lib Dem seat is a pretty rare thing. There are only possibly 3 (?) of them in the country based on the last few elections, but you may be right. Votes are going towards them rather than away from them at the moment.

I would vote tactical against the Tories, whether that meant Labour or Lib Dem.

I vote for whoever is going to do better against the incumbent Conservative. I don't think he is a bad guy and he's done some good things but in the end he is supporting ridiculous situations like not paying teachers, and my local healthcare is on its knees. I can't forgive Brexit either. It's making us poorer by the day.

As a woman it doesn't feature at the top of things to worry about when I decide who to vote for.

Same @ilovesooty

I care about the state of our economy, the state of our infrastructure, the state of public services, the state of our democracy, the state of our environment...

I'm not falling for the Tories cynical manipulation of women with nothing but a slogan.

That's how we got Brexit.

Nobody should be falling for that again.

@verdantverdure yes it is rare! Useless though. Lib dem council as well, even worse than the MP. We had a Tory for one term after coalition uni fees fiasco but lib dem back in after. I think the UK's problems started decades ago and think we're so far down the f*cked route that there's no hope.

We're going to emigrate so I'm kind of detached from it all now which is better for my health and keeps my blood pressure down.

Conservatives won with 43% of the vote in 2019

33% of voters didn't vote

So say 1,000,000 voters (sample rounded figures)

33% is 330,000 who didn't vote

Of the 670,000 who did vote - 43% = 330,000

The same amount of people voted tory as the amount who didn't vote

If those 33% who didn't vote had vote greens, raving lunatics or whoever else is out there they could have kicked tories and Labour out and changed the politics in this country.

Never think your vote doesn't count

The more people vote for "others" the more votes they get and the more future voters will put faith into voting for "others" too

If you really can't bear your Lib Dem, green etc candidate vote for the least likely to win as long as it's not tory/Labour 🤦‍♀️

If you vote for a party who end up in opposition you will be OK and can revel in your smugness. If you vote for a party who end up in government the absolute disaster that follows over the next five or more years will be your fault, everybody will blame you and hate you.