Voting Conservative or Labour?

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So we actually have a date for the General Election!

If you're planning to vote Conservative or planning to vote Labour... then which? Please click to indicate:

YABU = I'm planning to vote Conservative

YANBU = I'm planning to vote Labour

(Sorry, I do know that other parties are available and other voting choices are possible. Obviously lots of people won't be voting either Conservative or Labour. But AIBU only has a 2-way voting option, and I wanted to get a quick snapshot of support for the 2 biggest parties. So this is a poll for people who are planning to vote for one of those two.)

ABC - anyone but conservative!

Although I’d rather new labour were their own party and would get in as Labour is now just a less conservative Conservative Party!

It’s very left wing on here, I’m not sure you will get a snap shot, it really needs to be an official poll. There will be many.

@Sunnyandsilly I'd always thought of it as very left wing on here, but judging by the flood of posts this afternoon it seems I was wrong.

Current projections are a Labour landslide, so as long as Starmer doesn't get photographed making a mess of a bacon sandwich...

Personally I'm not very happy with any of them. I'm now wondering if the Monster Raving Loony Party will be fielding a candidate here, at least you can rely upon them for some sensible policies.

I feel politically homeless. Long standing Conservative, but cannot vote for them again.

Wouldn't trust Starmer as far as I could throw him.

Reform is just another vote for Labour really.

Greens and LibDems - absofuckinglutely not.

It's all a shower of shit really.

Sorry, who are the leaders of each team?

Do we know yet?

Wouldn't vote Tory in a million years. They've always been a bunch of self-serving arseholes who care for no one but their own bank balance but the current government are truly the lowest of the low and have done their best to wreck our country. I will be voting Labour.

Hmm do I want the red flavour or the blue flavour of utter shit.

In our town it's a case of tactical voting. To get the Tory MP out we have to vote Lib Dem. Labour shouldn't even field a candidate really.

Anyone but tory.

Tactical voting is the way forward.

Starmer said tonight he was only a politician because he wanted to serve working class people.

Yeah right. On both.

I live in a red wall area that went blue last time. Never thought I would see it. Current MP is excellent and has done so much more than the previous Labour MP ever did. I have a predicament.

Yes this !

Tory safe seat here. Second placed is labour. So as I can't stand the tories labour it must be. Then we need PR as I never want to have to vote tactically again

I don't know what to do, I dont feel I can in all conscience vote for either of them. Or anyone else for that matter. So depressing.

Both as bad as each other really.

Spooling my ballot paper & stating that I want a democratic voting system.

Labour candidate gets three times the votes of the tories, and almost the same again compared to the lib dem vote, so tactical voting is ineffective. We usually get a smattering of Monster Raving Loonies too.

ABC here too. Would like to vote Green but am willing to vote Lab or Lib Dem to remove our Tory incumbent.

I can't vote labour with two children in private school. Genuinely don't know what to do, as I loathe the tories

I'm also Green, but voting tactically for Not Tory.

Thankfully either Lib Dem or Labour are much better than Tories too IMO so I won't feel bad for voting for either.

For the first time in a long time I am living in an area where the tactical vote to get the Tory out is Labour.

I remember how much better the country was under Labour and will vote for them. Not perfect in every way, but definitely better in general for ordinary people, the environment, education and health.

Labour. I consider myself a floating party and have voted for most the main parties at one time or another, but my god if we don't get the conservatives out soon I am petrified we'll lose all our libraries, schools, public hospitals, small museums etc for good.

Other parties rather than the two main ones would stand a chance if people let them.

There quite often up to 10 people on a voting slip. Yet people time and time again, dont vote for them. And then complain when one the two main parties got in again!!
Vote for someone else!

Same here.

Labour. I always vote Labour but I would vote tactically to rid us of Tories this time if I had to. I don't. We live in a strong Labour Constituency. We have got to get the Conservatives out of government. The damage they have caused to our public services will take decades to repair and will damage a whole generation of vulnerable children for at least 20 years.

Listening to Sunak talking about the economy today and how inflation has dropped, you'd think he'd achieved something great. We need prices to drop dramatically in fuels, food, housing, clothes- they are just rising slower and in some cases still at 6%. Food prices have gone up by 25- 50+ % in many instances over the last two years. Energy prices have gone up by 100%+ over the last 2 years. Inflation slowing is in no way attacking that issue. Supermarkets and energy companies have increased their profits by billions and he has allowed it. Rents have shot up. Meanwhile many people have had income increases of 5-8%.