To wonder which way the vote will go?

[ManchesterBeatrice]

There'll be a general election this year and there's been such a lot of chat everywhere about the Torys losing.

I'd love to think this will be the case, but was thinking where will the votes go! I've always voted labour, and will again, but is there a chance the Torys might get back in?

Maybe there's a big set of silent voters who'll vote them back!

Is the consensus here that they will lose? And if so, to labour?

I have zero hope we will get Tories out. Looking at worldwide elections it seems no matter how dodgy a candidate is, people vote them back in time and time again. I think something pretty extraordinary would have to happen for things to change.

Toys will win. Labour are just too wet to offer much competition I reckon, and they've lost the female vote.

Bit ageist.

Why should older people get to decide on policy when they’re not the ones that will have to bear the brunt of it for many years to come? It was the exact same situation with Brexit

I still think that the Tories will win

Ageist comment again! Maybe younger people should get of their arses and vote like they should have done for Brexit vote.
BTW I a not Tory and didn’t vote for Brexit !

I think Labour will win, because Keir is very much trying to sell Labour as Tory Lite.

With the stupidity and ignorance of so many people in this country I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if Labour got in. In my opinion there should be a higher age requirement on voting because of this

Really? 73% of 18-23 year olds voted for remain, compared to just 40% of over 65s. The young were not the issue.

A vote for any party except labour could keep the tories in, as could sulky non voting.
If you really want the tories gone you have to take action and vote labour whether or not you agree with every policy.

Labour will get in. No chance of the Torys retaining power. October election, labour landslide.

I think Labour will win, but it certainly won't be the landslide they are hoping for.

73% of how many ,that actually bothered to vote?

The problem is that people are (rightly, imo) sick of the current government. However, a lot of folk also have issues / reservations about Labour. So I think we will see a lot of fragmented voting whereby traditional Conservative and Labour voters may give their votes to the 'smaller' parties.

Therefore, it's hard to call and this is why we've ended up with coalitions before (and also how the likes of a lifelong Labour seat of Blyth in Northumberland turned from red to blue in the last election)

Typo

I don't think labour offer much. But im sick of the tories. I probably won't even bother voting. None of them care about me

Probably end up with a hung parliament this time around.
Can't see Labour getting in with a majority now that Scotland is continually mainly SNP... in addition to the wishy washy "we aren't the Tories, but we're not hard left either" stance.

I’d love to know what your upper limit would be - please let us know

Think it’ll be a hung parliament and then a weak coalition that doesn’t get much done, followed by another Tory government in a few years.

People are rightly furious about the way Boris and his team of tipsy incompetents damaged and impoverished Britain. But, the Boris era is over, and Rishi is actually a very principled and competent man who is trying hard to sort out Boris’ mess. I also love that Rishi is Hindu, goodness knows we need a leader who believes in karma! I’d like to see Rishi given more of a chance to turn things around.

I was very hopeful of Kier Starmer when he first rose to the top of his party (a lawyer, yay), but now I despise him for his repeated refusals to stand up for women’s rights or even admit the problems with trans extremism. Also, I hate Kier’s policies, particularly the way he’s misleading parts of the electorate into thinking you need to tax private education to improve state education, some voters after listening to Kier now think taxpayers contribute to private schools. 😂🙈 I pulled my child out of state education because he wasn’t physically safe there, and now a privileged KC from a Surrey grammar school wants me to pay tax on the fees I’m scraping together, that I changed job to afford? He can fuck off. Taxing education is a huge legal change and will end up with after school clubs, music lessons and nurseries etc being taxed too. I remember when Labour scrapped education grants and introduced university fees and said don’t worry the fees will never rise over £1k per year. Ha!

I find Kier’s interviews evasive and not honest, and Angela Raynor has been very clear she hates people like me, so why would I vote for her team?

I also don’t like the way Kier seems to expect power to be handed to him on a plate because it’s somehow his turn. I don’t see anything to vote for there.

Have never voted Conservative in my life but probably will at next election. Certainly can’t vote Green / LibDem as I usually do because of their failures on women’s rights and their purges of any intelligent voices without their own parties while bowing down to transactivists. So after ruling out Labour, LibDem and Green, I’m not left with many options.

What age should the cutoff be?

Rishi is actually a very principled and competent man who is trying hard to sort out Boris’ mess
This is a joke, right?

This! There is no alternative. Labour as basically the monster raving looney party reincarnated. I read something about a party called Reform. Maybe I'll vote for them.

Personally I’d say around 75

Sadly not. Shows how screwed we are as a country in one singular comment.

My mother went all jingoistic during Brexit. Drove me hopping mad.

Not sure about next election...I've found Keir a bit of a disappointment as well, we're a labour area and I'm considering it.