Vote for your family? Or spoil for your principles?

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All this chat around the election has got me wondering...

If a family member was standing for election, and a party you would traditionally have voted for but yet completely disillusioned about.

Would you put that X there? Would it make a difference? Family loyalty? You might influence their views? You should vote with your politics?

Too late now of course. But the General will present the same problem...

So do you vote for your sibling to be an MP?

I would not vote for my sibling to be MP if her policies conflicted with my conscience. I seriously wouldn't.

me neither.

in fact if my child admitted voting tory i would insist they change their names.

dh became a memberof the lib dems - i considered divorce

there was no labour candidate here where i live - wuite telling.

there was no tory candidate where i used to live - also quite telling

Do you agree with your sibling's politics? If so, then yes, you vote for her.

Yeah is it tricky though.

(hello Custy mate )

Labour is the key. Sibling is Labour. But y'know 'New' labour.

You vote with your conscience.

But your conscience says. All these people will make things worse and iomplememtn things that are bad for the you, the city the country.

So spoil?

Explain that at xmas dinner!

FiL was a Tory councilor. We had a big fall out over it. It involved shouting in a public place

So, no, I wouldn't.

in the interests of discretion I prob shouldn't have started this.
Thankyou gor thoughts.
Itis a bit subtle but basically you 3ouldn't let family influence your vote?

what if it was your mum?
What if it was your child?

go on really, imagine it....

my nans a tory.

she can't help it

if she stood in an election - i wouldnt vote for her

but i would do anything else on the planet for her.

if my child was to stand as a tory - i wouldnt vote for them - yet i would die for them.

Given that no-one knows how you voted, I think I'd vote according to my principles, and tell my family member I'd voted for them But then maybe that suggests a general lack of principle on my part anyway... hmm...

We're rather big on not influencing each others' votes in our family (only reason I can see that mum (DM reader) and dad (Graun reader) have stayed together for 30 odd years). So I'd vote with y conscience. I was actually quite shocked when y DH first asked me who I voted for - told him it was none of his business!

i would stick to my beliefs nd principles
but then thats easy to say when i think about my brother as we are like chalk and cheese in every way, i dont know how id feel if i was close to a sibling who wanted my vote,