Seeing as it’s anonymous… where is your vote going?

[Wheresyourvote]

My views -

Conservative - Potentially had a tough ride with Covid & brexit aftermath to navigate. However, looking at the state of the NHS & the ever increasing price rises in almost everything… how could I vote them in again?

Labour - Almost feels like the only likely alternative. Change is as good as any? But Keir starmer does precisely 0 for me. I cannot get passionate about him.

Greens - Won our constituency a while ago, whilst I appreciate what they stand for the changes they made locally have had a negative impact on the average citizen IMO.

Reform - Nigel Farage is DIFFERENT, I don’t think that can be denied. Part of me thinks bold and controversial is what we need and the other thinks he is a brilliant campaigner and is just playing up to the people trying to act like ‘one of the working class’ to garner votes.

Where is your vote going?

It is also common place to remove poppies for recordings that need to transcend time, as poppies will date anything.

Same for me.

Yes your vote is wasted if your primary objective is to remove the incumbent and the current system means only one party can achieve that in your constituency. If you vote for someone else who has no chance of winning, for whatever reasons, all you are doing is increasing the chances of the incumbent winning.

@ilovesooty

"I think it's depressing that someone can be so uninformed and disinterested."

Actually that's fairly reflective of most of the electorate - welcome to democracy 😀

Indeed which is why I prefer reforms ideas for the nhs. I personally would have one central team to buy everything and individual hospitals/doctors make requests to that team
Please see the thread about management in the nhs. Reform removes these pointless quango roles.

But the press hate reform/farage and like Tim Martin of Wetherspoons, prints a lot of anti propaganda

I just picked up a Green Party leaflet off my doormat . Front cover we will fill pot holes .. now I absolutely want pot holes filled but why would I vote in a GE over pot holes?

Conservatives or reform.

That would make sense except that Starmer's spokesperson claimed it was a mistake.

I’ve never voted Labour but will this time. I do like Keir Starmer, have listened to a few in depth interviews and I believe him to be genuine and decent.

policy wise, I believe we need much much more of a focus on proper management of public services - this was better, to my mind, under the last Lab govt (I admit this now, didn’t vote for them at the time). I like what Wes Streeting says on NHS.

on balance, best fit out of all of them - no party is perfect.

Reform can get in the bin though.

Because when all the other main parties have copied your key green policies what else is there to campaign on other than pot holes?

Labour

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Lib Dem tactical vote to #GTTO.

Why are you worried about charisma in a leader, Op? Johnson had charisma. He was also a clown show.

Labour

Reform.

No party will allow the personal tax allowance to be less than the basic state pension as it will mean that thousands of pensioners will have to complete Self Assessment Tax Returns. Stressful and complicated for pensioners. Hugely expensive for HMRC who wouldn't cope.

You’re going to get proportionately way more people responding with Labour. This is MN. A Labour echo chamber. But it in no way accurately reflects real life. I’m voting Reform, and know many others doing the same. Especially after seeing the very poor performance by Starmer in last weeks face to face debate with Sunak. To me, voting Labour would be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

I feel the need for a change and am thinking about the future for my daughter.
With this in mind, I offered a few hours of my time to the local Green Party yesterday. I met the group and we delivered leaflets in the target area - a ward in the constituency. It is definitely going to go to the sitting Labour MP. No question.
But it’s important to do something to make a difference. No vote is wasted. It’s your vote. On the day after the election, the list of candidates and votes will be published. Your preferred party may not win, but that is democracy in action.
Be proactive. I actually asked a lot of questions about local elections and learnt a great deal.

Could have written this myself almost verbatim. Definitely Labour.

I don't understand why people would believe anything Farage says when we didn't get what he promised with Brexist?
Also, just saying it needs an overhaul doesn't mean that he has the right ideas about what that overhaul might be.

For those people who say Reform because they want change, that scares me. Think about their actual policies and read their manifesto and see if they'll really help you. Just because Nige is using the right buzz words to attract your attention doesn't mean that the parties policies will actually help you.

Definitely not tory. I do not want another 2% NI cut. I'm £120 a month better off because of the previous 2 cuts but people on minimum wage are nowhere near that amount better off and they are the people needing the money most. Another sign of the tories helping the better off and not giving a shit about helping the poorer people in society.

Cutting of benefits and trying to get people back to work. How about the number of people on benefits because they are stuck on an NHS waiting list.
Having had a family member treated for cancer and seeing the co-pay (equivalent to excess) that well insured Americans have to pay I will not go anywhere near Reform. Everyone who is struggling with cost of living now will have a massive fucking shock when they have to start paying directly for their medical care.

The bloody stamp duty idea being touted today for first time buyers is just going to push prices up again. Worked really well before didn't it??

I don't know if my vote will be red or yellow but my labour MP had a 14,000 majority at the last election so I think we know who will be winning.

Labour. I always vote labour. My constituency is a Labour stronghold and has been for many years.

Nurse ! She's out of bed again !

Have a read of this. The NHS is actually pretty good value and does not spend a huge amount on administration, it just needs more staff to function

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/comparing-nhs-to-health-care-systems-other-countries

I think everyone has the right to vote for whichever party they want. But this attitude really incenses me. I take it you are a women ? You know people actually died to give you a vote right ? If you don't bother and still expect change you are utterly implicit in whichever shit show goverment we end up with for the next 5 years.