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General election 2024

List the top 3 reasons you plan to vote for which party - 2 sentences for each point.

182 replies

PanicAttax · 28/05/2024 21:20

I really am struggling to pick through what I actually want to vote for, rather than against in this coming GE.

I don't feel any party ticks all of my boxes but loathe to have more of the same with Tories killing everything off and sewage.

Labour I can't deal with the VAT on private schools and how they're rolling back on hitting tech companies for tax (seems to be picking on the little guy and parents who care about education).

I really don't know much about Lib Dem - trans seems to be their main concern/not very woman friendly? and Green - do they have great policies that they've costed for? Any other party you think deserves a mention?

So, what are your top three reasons to vote for your party?
Keep it brief and to the point!

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Ontopofthesunset · 29/05/2024 16:18

I'll be voting Lib Dem in my constituency as it's a two-way race.

But if we had PR I'd vote Labour:
i) renationalisation of railways
ii) a more humane immigration policy
iii) they will surely be better than the current government and are the only party who have a chance of winning

frankentall · 29/05/2024 16:18

Ontopofthesunset · 29/05/2024 16:15

I'm going to be so sick of the phrase 'politics of envy' by July 4th.

It is possible to disagree with something for all sorts of reasons, not necessarily because you envy it. I know plenty of people who could have afforded to use private schools but chose not to as they think they're fundamentally inequitable. They don't envy people using private schools. In the same way, I don't envy people with Range Rover or a Rolex. I could afford them, but I don't value them or think they would make my life better.

100% agree, it's just a lazy shorthand to imply any kind of egalitarian policy is morally wrong in some weird biblical sense that doesn't really exist.

Maddy70 · 29/05/2024 16:24

Im voting labour because im a teacher and have seen the destruction of education since the Tories have got in. Its appalling

National service ..just no

Have you tried to get a GP appointment or an nhs dentist recently?

The PPA scandals throughout covid and cash for cronies?

Mental health care has become unrecognisable over the last decade

Homelessness and foodbanks neither should be a thing

The Brexit negotiations awful. we are far poorer as a nation and has affected ao many businesses (my husband's for one ) almost impossible to cost-effective when exporting

The Tories are no longer conservatives. They're right-wing extremists they lie and slur for soundbites

TeamPolin · 29/05/2024 16:31

Tory, I really Think of the lot they are the safest to run the economy

Yep, that Liz Truss did a brilliant job....

booktokbear · 29/05/2024 16:31

Flapjacker48 · 29/05/2024 07:49

@PanicAttax so only those parents who use private schools "care about education"? Hmm

This is what clouded my view of the whole of op's post!

Bushtika · 29/05/2024 16:32

@Ontopofthesunset
Lib Dems are Tory lite. Look at the shameful part played by Jo Swinson (Former Lib Dem leader ) and Ed Davy in the Post Office scandal. Ed Davy said to Alan Bates, 'I have nothing to say to you' whilst pocketing £400,000 fo turning the other way (Minister in charge of Post Office at the time.
Our Lib Dem local authority are careful to ensure road improvements etc go to the richer roads. They have just closed our Early Years Sure Start Centre.
Any money spent will go on shoring the more affluent roads. Roads with social housing are ignored.
Happy to expound at length about their bias towards rich parts of the borough. I dread the introduction of green roads because it will just push traffic onto busy roads with social housing. They are bad, self serving people.

TeamPolin · 29/05/2024 16:33

Labour.

I hate the Tories with every fibre of my being....

C8H10N4O2 · 29/05/2024 16:47

BIossomtoes · 29/05/2024 15:14

Women needing an abortion have to get two qualified doctors to approve.

Technically.

Factually. Its a legal requirement.

frankentall · 29/05/2024 16:48

Tory, I really Think of the lot they are the safest to run the economy

That's a joke, right? Like saying Harold Shipman would be best at running an old folks home.

Redlocks30 · 29/05/2024 16:49

Lampslights · 28/05/2024 21:52

Tory, I really Think of the lot they are the safest to run the economy, I cannot for the life of me imagine starmer and raynor doing it. And would be scared for us all if they get in, although I doubt much will change when they do, the rest are simply non entities.

I’m intrigued-what do you think they have done well over the last 14 years? What’s better?

worrywilma · 29/05/2024 17:03

I'm a complete political novice and have no idea who I'll be voting for. But have any of them spoke about the cost of living and mortgage rates? Or is that more of a world wide issue that one government can't fix in their own country?

I'll say again, I'm pretty thick when it come to politics!

PanicAttax · 29/05/2024 18:11

worrywilma · 29/05/2024 17:03

I'm a complete political novice and have no idea who I'll be voting for. But have any of them spoke about the cost of living and mortgage rates? Or is that more of a world wide issue that one government can't fix in their own country?

I'll say again, I'm pretty thick when it come to politics!

Not at all - it's why I'm asking for people to give the top policies from their party they like.

It's not easy as a lot of people just seem to slate the other party, but if you read back we've had a few mentioned.

Still waiting for the real manifesto's though so they may well change...

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AnnaMagnani · 29/05/2024 18:13

Lib Dems. A tactical vote to get the Tories out.

That is all 3 of my reasons in 1.

PanicAttax · 29/05/2024 18:21

booktokbear · 29/05/2024 16:31

This is what clouded my view of the whole of op's post!

Well obviously if you pay for education you care about it, just as a man who buys a Ferrari. It doesn't mean other parents or (car drivers) don't! It's not a trick comprehension post.

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booktokbear · 29/05/2024 18:40

PanicAttax · 29/05/2024 18:21

Well obviously if you pay for education you care about it, just as a man who buys a Ferrari. It doesn't mean other parents or (car drivers) don't! It's not a trick comprehension post.

You know very well that most people will read your post as 'only people who pay for education care about it'.

And that is wholly untrue.

PanicAttax · 29/05/2024 19:22

booktokbear · 29/05/2024 18:40

You know very well that most people will read your post as 'only people who pay for education care about it'.

And that is wholly untrue.

Well I didn't write it that way and only you and one other poster have read it that way...

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Kayswiss · 29/05/2024 19:28

GREEN, because I couldn't vote for a leader that supports Isreal and genocide.

Also because they seem to be more like Labour used to be, before they turned into second rate Tories

SheilaFentiman · 29/05/2024 19:44

AnnaMagnani · 29/05/2024 18:13

Lib Dems. A tactical vote to get the Tories out.

That is all 3 of my reasons in 1.

Same

SheilaFentiman · 29/05/2024 19:46

If it was worth a vote, I would vote Labour. Keir Starmer is a grown up with proper expertise and understanding of complex interactions from his time as the DPP.

App13 · 29/05/2024 19:58

Tory, I appreciate the way the economy has been steered through the multiple crisis it has experienced and I would prefer it to remain that way with sound finances, inflation in control and awaiting an interest rate drop.

SheilaFentiman · 29/05/2024 19:59

App13 · 29/05/2024 19:58

Tory, I appreciate the way the economy has been steered through the multiple crisis it has experienced and I would prefer it to remain that way with sound finances, inflation in control and awaiting an interest rate drop.

Trussonomics?

Misthios · 29/05/2024 20:02
  1. Lib Dem because they are best placed to give the SNP a kicking in my consitutency.
  2. Lib Dem because they are best placed to give the SNP a kicking in my consitutency.
  3. Lib Dem because they are best placed to give the SNP a kicking in my consitutency.
SiriAlexa · 29/05/2024 20:07

I am really struggling with this. I was set on Labour but now that the election is coming up I’m having a wobble. I had been saving to send my kids to a private secondary and now I feel that if I vote labour I’m not doing the best thing for my family as the VAT charge will hit us hard. I also think giving 16 year olds the right to vote is a terrible idea. What other terrible ideas are they hatching up? All this in spite of feeling extremely let down by the Tories.