If we had a General Election next week who would you vote for and why?

[IdaBWells]

I cannot personally vote as I have lived overseas for too long. Who would you vote for and why?

Green

Conservative. I’m in a Scottish marginal (very marginal - majority of only 27!) seat, and its the only way to get the SNP out.

I could obviously never vote Tory, except as a tactical vote to keep out an neo-nazi party, eg BNP.

I will not vote Labour while Corbyn is leader, for three reasons :
1, He is a Brexiteer who whipped his MPs to vote for A50 and has enabled Brexit at every stage.
2, Current Labour policy is not to stop Brexit at all costs.
3, He is not a credit candidate to be PM of a G7 country, and he never will be.

If I were Scottish, I would happily vote for the SNP, but I’m not, so I would vote either Lib Dem or Green.

I urge you to at the very least inform yourself before deciding.

I urge everyone to research what the parties stand for and not treat it.like a popularity contest between leaders.

Whichever party has the best chance of defeating the SNP candidate so probably Lib Dem.

@EllenRipley
Thanks. Missed that acronym

Labour, I'm a party member & have a very hardworking MP who went out of her way to help me earlier this year.

I bet the Brexit party don't produce a manifesto if we have a snap GE. That way they can do whatever they want and mean whatever people think they do. Not really spelling out what things mean and a plan worked well for NF in the European elections and the referendum.

"I urge everyone to research what the parties stand for and not treat it.like a popularity contest between leaders."

Totally agree.

I have at times found Johnson amusing eg on hignfy appearances but that in no way qualifies him to run the country!

Equally I think an awful lot of people dislike Corbyn on a personal level as in they think they would struggle to have a conversation with or be entertained by him, yet that dislike doesn't make him an unfit politician.

And as I've noted there's a shocking number of people who clearly have never even READ let alone carefully considered the actual policies or records of the parties before deciding who to vote for!

Graphista

Agreed. Political parties are bigger than the leader, and not voting for a certain one because the leader wore a grey jacket or has a beard or is a woman etc is daft. Equally daft voting purely because that leader is charismatic and swigs pints in a pub.

I have voted Labour all my life except for last election, I am utterly ashamed of what the party has become.

Labour- I am not selfish enough to vote Tory; Stupid enough to vote Lib dem; bigoted enough to vote for UKIP nor naïve enough to vote Green.

Thinking that lifelong labour voters are not voting Labour because of a leaders jacket or because they couldn't imagine having a cup of tea with corbyn is breathtaking.

I couldn't vote labour because I can't stand JC. So I'd have to vote LD.

thinking that lifelong labour voters are not voting Labour because of a leaders jacket or because they couldn't imagine having a cup of tea with corbyn is breathtaking

I first voted Labour in the first election Mrs Thatcher won and last voted Labour in the election Ed Miliband lost. I won't vote Labour again until they get rid of Corbyn, McDonnell, Corbyn's 4 eminence

Labour (by postal vote - just registered)

Why? I like the local MP who is anti-Brexit and hell needs to freeze over before I would vote Tory (& where I’m sure there’s a special place waiting for Boris & co)

Posted too soon, I won't vote Labour again until they get rid of Corbyn, McDonnell, Corbyn's 4 eminence grise pulling his strings, Momentum, anti- semitism, and their extremist policies.

Conservative. No other reasonable choice.

birdsdestiny
I'll continue voting labour because MP is good and he has the sort of values I agree with on the whole. I also am concerned that with the polling of Brexit party in our area (despite no proper manifesto) all reasonable people need to back labour to prevent the idiots in our area who might think Boris some sort ok British Donald Trump.

I used to be open minded. I liked Jeremy Corbyn as an MP. Labour keeping their current leadership is risking more austerity and handing Boris a mandate. I quite liked Ed Milliband and never felt he got a fair hearing.

A really tough one for me, I live in a Tory safe area, we've been that way for longer than I've been alive and my MP is actually bloody brilliant, however, I detest Boris and most of the other cabinet members, I don't want to leave the EU in a million years. I think I'd probably vote Lib Dem.

Lib Dem's are my only choice in my constituency as I can't ever vote Tory without my grandmother resurrecting and killing me, and I couldn't in good conscience vote Labour and embolden that odious man running the party.

I used remain voter website for the local elections i voted green to keep the tory out.
It worked.

Labour

Lib Dem. I’m a remainer and I’ve voted Lib Dem at the last two elections (although not always in the past) so it’s an easy choice for me.

Conservative.