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?

For the first time in my life I feel politically homeless, I can't vote Tory I work in the public sector, it would be idiotic.

I don't trust Keir Starmer to even know who I am as a woman let alone defend my best interests, and the things I value, he seems very led by what's popular/trendy with little evidence and I still don't know what his policies really are other than taxing private schools, which I'm ambivalent about and one policy doesn't make a manifesto, I don't hear a lot of how from labour enough is a concern. They also can't seem to get their own house in order which doesn't bode well for a future government.

Greens have suddenly about turned on a lot of their misogynistic policies and have a listen to women's hour this week, they outright lied about what they'd even said about a woman's right to birth the way she wants and on self ID and women's spaces. Two faced lying nitwits.

I would stab myself in both eyes before voting for Nigel farage.

Please tell me you’re joking 🙄

@Rainbow1901 ty. Really useful and helpful

@Wheresyourvote "Keir might not have the charisma but maybe he does have the core values?"

I personally believe that he does, yes. Also, he has an impressive CV for a person from a lower middle class background. And he has proven to be strategically very astute as leader of the Labour Party. I hope he will win and use his skills to steer our country in a better direction.

Labour. Apparently my long term knighted rep may actually be in danger of losing their seat which is unbelievable.

Not Labour.

I think it might also be fair to say that as politics has shifted further and further right, those slightly-left-of-centre like Starmer are described as “loony Lefties”.

In many ways it's all largely irrelevant anyway. Labour will win - (it's just the size of the majority that's in question) on the basis that they are not the Conservatives and many voters naively think "well they couldn't do any worse than the Conservatives have done".

Scroll forward to the 2029 when voters will vote the Conservatives back in naively thinking they couldn't do any worse than Labour.

The challenge is that the policies needed to provide any long term fix (rather than pulling up more debt) are unpalatable with the voters and any candidate proposing them will never get elected to become a politician.

Aaaaactually, I see what you mean.

Labour do have a better track record on unemployment rates than the Tories but it is arguable that they have never left office with unemployment lower than when they entered (I say arguable as we don’t have good data for the first half of the last century).

Labour.

Labour. Partly because I'm sick of the Tories and their ' tax cuts for the rich' manifesto, when public services are falling apart. I like Wes Streeting, Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Bridget Phillipson. Emily Thornberry is a fool and I'm surprised she's still there, and I wish they were bolder, but as they say, dont let perfect be the enemy of the good. There are own goals they haven't hit, like social care , when they have a social care policy, and education, but there are things I like, and Starmer seems like a decent guy. Their policy is also to look at constitutional reform in their second term. The Tories will never do that, but it is something we desperate need in order to have a functioning democracy. It is important, even though most people couldn't care less about it, andcthey are not tainted by Brexit and in hock to their Brexiteer wing, so there is a chance that they will have a better relationship and cooperationwith the EU. I want to vote for people who care about young people like my children and is prepared to do something to give them a future rather than pandering to their own voter base with ill thought out nonsense like National Service. I held my nose and voted Labour in 2019, but I am happy to vote for them this time. My DH is hard Left, and like most of them, hates KS and is voting Green. I will not vote Green again after their ' non men' crap, but they have also become a welcome home for the hard Left sidelined by Labour, Islamists, anti semites and misogynists so they are a hard no.

I don’t feel particularly excited by any. But two issues that are important to me are women’s rights and stopping antisemitism. I trust the tories most on that (although no party is perfect). So I may vote Tory for the first time. My current mp is awful and is SNP.

Having voted labour a number of times and been disappointed, I wanted to have a good reason to vote for them again. Starmer, and many of his team, just haven’t convinced me. His performance in the debate (and also HoP debates) was lacklustre…..as it has been mentioned here already, he couldn’t provide anything impressive on ‘what he would do’, just a lot of criticism of the Tories.
Tony Blair, love or hate him, brought a palpable feeling of change. I get the impression Keir doesn’t want to have policies or opinions in case they discourage the inevitable tide of people simply voting for labour because they don’t want Tories.

How do you view the effectiveness (or not) of Brexit? The fact that the economy is in tatters? Most things are worse now than when the Conservatives took power. Does that not rule them out too?

Not proud but for the first time ever I can't back any of them. More austerity, don't know what a woman is etc etc It will be a spoiled ballot paper for me.

Labour. And I do believe in Keir Starmer's capacity to deliver solid governance and to improve public services. He led the DPP successfully. He's reversed the Corbyn shit show in less than four years. And the I'm sick and tired of public school boy Conservatives who believe without foundation and contrary to all evidence (a) that the job is their birthright (b) that they'll be good at it because they went to the right schools / know the right people / are a cut above the rest of us. These last 14 years have been like a never ending charge of the light brigade driven on by nowt but misplaced self-belief (and we are all poorer and more exhausted as a consequence). Don't know for sure that Labour will succeed, but let's face it, they look ready whereas Rishi is just so badly out of his depth and surrounded by imbeciles who can't even keep him out of the rain, or in attendance at one of the nation's most solemn remembrance events. A billionaire who dislikes basic taxes and doesn't use our public services at a point when they are collapsing is not the man to fix Britain is he? He'll be on a private jet to California before the weather turns this year.

Probably more effective than any of the other useless options🤣

@PeonyAndBlushSuede no. Have conservatories been in power for 14 consecutive years ?

I really don't think he is boring at all. Could these people who think he is boring be basing their opinions on his accent/his voice? Maybe try actually listening to his views/policies?

No conservatories haven’t.

But conservatives have.

Although I’m assuming you’re just being satire😂

After watching on fast forward the BBC Friday night debate I can conclude that all the candidates were way out of their depth and not up to the job.

Ranging from Penny Mordant whose only contribution was repeating " Labour will leave the country defenceless". To Angela Rayner's only contribution repeating "Liz Truss trashed the economy ". To Daisy Cooper thinking that if she smiles enough then people will gloss over the incoherent irrelevance she spouts.

That interview where he won’t answer basic questions about women’s rights and keeps trying to deflect saying there is a “toxic” culture war. Then he mentions Brianna Ghey to try to deflect again. Then when asked about Rosie Duffield he lies claiming he discusses things with her all the time.

I find him slippery. I don’t know what he stands for and I don’t trust him.

@NCNC10000009

"Have conservatories been in power for 14 consecutive years ?"

Please tell me that you are actually winding us up on this comment.

Comments on Rishi Sunak not understanding our culture

then pretending to wrap it up around class and privilege

We all know exactly what he was alluding to

It was a typo before my device died !