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GE is on! Remainers how will you vote?

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WarwickLife · 29/10/2019 11:10

Just that really! The General Election is on, either 11th Dec or a few days before but it's going to happen now that Labour have agreed. Tactical voting websites are being prepared as we speak.

If you are a remainer, who will you vote for?

(And if any leavers lurk here, will you vote for Tories or Brexit party?)

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WiseUpJanetWeiss · 29/10/2019 14:12

Labour, with a heavy heart. I’m in a former Lab/Con marginal so Lib Dem voting just risks a Johnson Brexit.

Our Labour MP is good, and vocally anti-Brexit, which helps.

TatianaLarina · 29/10/2019 14:13

Laughing at the thought you could sort out the lib dems policies on women. Their view of women as commodities is hard wired in the philosophy of the party.

As if any of the major parties doesn’t have a women problem!

Did you not notice the Labour MPs up for deselection are mainly women? That labour has never managed to muster a female leader?

Right now we have a fascism problem.

TheABC · 29/10/2019 14:14

I am in a safe Labour seat, so my vote is essentially worthless. On the plus side, if it keeps the Tories out, I will be happy.

Mistigri · 29/10/2019 14:14

I'm fucking sick of hearing about it and am fed up with the national agenda being dominated by it

A brexit deal leads to the next 6 months being devoted to arguments over an extension to the transition (and the cost), and the next 10 years being devoted to making a deal with the EU.

Brexit will never be over (even revoke doesn't get rid of it).

TatianaLarina · 29/10/2019 14:16

I'm fucking sick of hearing about it and am fed up with the national agenda being dominated by it, so I think we need to get it done, economically disastrous though it will be.

If we Leave Brexit will dominate the agenda for the next 10 years at least. The debate, the arguments about how to Leave and the consequences will just go on and on and on. The only way for it to be over is to Remain.

randomsabreuse · 29/10/2019 14:17

Lib Dem. Regardless of my feelings on other issues they are the only unequivocal Remain party in England. Other issues can be dealt with, it's at most 5 years while the consequences of Brixit are forever as we will never get the same deals again if we do need/decide to go in...

Scotland and Wales are more open, Labour's ridiculous fence sitting will put off a lot on both sides.

Hopefully Brexit Party will go the way of UKIP and get no seats.

I expect the result will be a hung parliament with gains for Lib Dem vs Tory and Labour and gains for Plaid Cymry as well. Not sure SNP can gain much (might be remembering wrong election). I expect a slender majority for remain parties/members leading to another referendum, followed by a referendum on changes to the voting system to a more proportional type system as the biggest justification for first past the post (stability and creating workable governments) is no longer present.

Insane having a general election to solve a single issue!

LavendarGreen · 29/10/2019 14:17

@Lexplorer

How can life-long Labour voters not vote Labour? Jeremy Corbyn probably won't last long anyway and I fucking hate hearing people diss his looks and clothes. It's refreshing having someone who doesn't spend hours in front of a mirror cultivating a 'look' or spending £££££ on clothes.

Boris is a liar, a scumbag, treats women as accessories and is there purely for self-aggrandisement. If we are voting because of the leaders I am gob-smacked that Corbyn is deemed worse than him.

Sorry, there is not a chance of me voting for Labour whilst Corbyn is leader. If Labour win, CORBYN will be the Prime Minister, do you not understand that? He is the most disingenuous, fake, two faced, dreadful leader that I have ever witnessed.

So, as a lifelong Labour Voter, NO I will NOT be voting for Labour, not with Corbyn in the lead, and I know many people who feel the same.

I am not a fan of Boris, but Corbyn is worse. At least with Boris, what you see is what you get. Corbyn has more faces than a clock factory. Awful man.

Shelby30 · 29/10/2019 14:17

I'm not left with a lot of options. I would never vote for the SNP, I can't vote for labour when they have Corbyn as a leader. I really don't know as a vote for anyone else in my area is a wasted vote.

TatianaLarina · 29/10/2019 14:19

Brexit will never be over (even revoke doesn't get rid of it).

Revoke certainly doesn’t get rid of the issue, but it would at least put a stop to the discussions of how to leave, debating every single factor affected by leave, analysing the consequences etc.

wondering7777 · 29/10/2019 14:19

Brexit will never be over (even revoke doesn't get rid of it).

It will be over if we have a general election, a PV and remain wins. Yes there will be moaning about it from certain quarters, but I think overall we would move on as a nation.

In response to the pp's comment - I can't believe there are remainers who would even consider voting Tory - especially as you say yourself you don't even like your Tory MP. I mean - really?! Confused

Yaralie · 29/10/2019 14:20

11zafferana poster

"Remainer here. I have no fucking idea! I can't stand our local Tory candidate and I really like our LD one, but I (very reluctantly) think we need to get Brexit done now. I'm fucking sick of hearing about it and am fed up with the national agenda being dominated by it, so I think we need to get it done, economically disastrous though it will be."

This is dangerously illogical. U less Article 50 is 're joked this brexit nonsense will dominate our news for the next ten years

Yaralie · 29/10/2019 14:20

Unless A50is revoked

smoresmores · 29/10/2019 14:21

If you are voting for Boris, you aren't a remainer. By definition.

What a load of divisive bollocks.

This is a GENERAL ELECTION not a people's vote. People can vote for policies besides Brexit as they see fit.

It seems impossible for some on here to comprehend that people have differing options. Yet we have hung parliament after hung parliament.

Onesunnydayiniceland · 29/10/2019 14:22

Remainer here in a safe labour London seat. My heart says lib dems as they are unequivocally remain but my head says labour to keep my lovely MP in

Simkin · 29/10/2019 14:22

Can we stop calling him 'Boris'? Johnson is not a loveable rogue who deserves only one name. He's an evil (and inept) establishment wanker.

TatianaLarina · 29/10/2019 14:23

How can life-long Labour voters not vote Labour? Jeremy Corbyn probably won't last long

Because I’m a lifelong Remainer. JC is explicitly Leave and he could well last long enough to agree a deal with the EU. Plus he’s a twat.

The power is really with McCluskey, Milne and Murphy.

BeesKnees4 · 29/10/2019 14:24

@LavendarGreen
He is the most disingenuous, fake, two faced, dreadful leader that I have ever witnessed. about Corbyn but will vote for Boris?? 🤣🤣🙄🤣 you are deluded!
Leaders change and quickly, get a grip.

GCAcademic · 29/10/2019 14:25

The last time my constituency didn't have a massive Tory majority was in 1922. My MP was previously a Remainer, but has now decided that it's best for her career to get her nose well up Boris's arse and become his biggest cheerleader - that's the same Boris she previously described to a constituent as "a charlatan and a danger to the country".

BorisInAnExecutionersMask · 29/10/2019 14:26

Dunno, and in my case it doesn't really matter. We're in a Tory stronghold (since 1924) with such a strong majority that Boris could admit to being Satan himself and the electorate would just go "that's lovely - where do I sign?"

Probably Lib Dem, but nothing will change here.

crankyassnoperope · 29/10/2019 14:27

Can we stop calling him 'Boris'? Johnson is not a loveable rogue who deserves only one name. He's an evil (and inept) establishment wanker.

Exactly. Johnson is a cruel, Machiavellian bully.

EllebellyBeeblebrox · 29/10/2019 14:29

Remainer, pissing my vote away for Labour in a Tory safe seat.

Giggorata · 29/10/2019 14:31

Remainer. I am one of those who voted to enter Europe whenever it was, hundreds of years ago, in that other referendum. The first one.
I won't vote for Corbyn's Labour Party, mainly because of the onslaught on women and the anti semitism and because he is a two faced opportunistic man.
Lib Dems might get my vote purely because they still want to remain, but I am very reluctant, as they have other stupid and anti women policies.
I have considered spoiling my vote, not for the first time, but in such an important single issue election, I want to be heard. Perhaps if the Lib Dems get in, they can be lobbied heavily about the rest...
I actually like my Tory MP, but Machiavellian Boris and the rest of the shower.... not to be contemplated.

JenniR29 · 29/10/2019 14:32

I’m not sure. Usually vote Labour but Plaid are a strong challenger in my constituency.

smoresmores · 29/10/2019 14:32

Brexit will never be over (even revoke doesn't get rid of it).

It will be over if we have a general election, a PV and remain wins. Yes there will be moaning about it from certain quarters, but I think overall we would move on as a nation.

And what if win leave a PV? I voted remain and would again but I honestly think the reset would be the same again.

Giggorata · 29/10/2019 14:33

Wow, someone else pegged Boris as Machiavellian whilst I was writing.... Grin ... some of us see through him.

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