If there was a GE today who would you vote for?

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Bit cheeky but I’m curious to see if there are genuinely any Tory voters out there at all following another disastrous week for Rishi Sunak.

So who would get your vote?

I‘ll go first, I would vote Labour. As much as I would love to hear more on policy and a firm grittiness from them, I do understand that Keir Starmer is doing the best he can, in that he can’t alienate a large proportion of the electorate so needs to toe the line.

there isn’t really anyone for me - traditionally vote conservative but I’m deeply unimpressed by what a shit show they are recently. However wales isn’t faring much better with a labour government so no confidence that labour would lead us into utopia like a lot of people seem to think. They are not the answer

Not Labour. Khan lost them my vote.

But it’s not evenly spread is it. I live in an area where they keep building more and more houses with huge numbers of new families moving here. There hasn’t been a new school built in over 15 years.

however wales isn’t faring much better with a labour government so no confidence that labour would lead us into utopia like a lot of people seem to think. They are not the answer

Im not sure anyone is expecting utopia, just less of this shit show.

Labour

Can you link data to back this up?

Only joking, I hate when people say this!

I’m not so sure though, you might be right but one of the mums at school has family in Italy & said it’s really bad there too.

I just think any bad thing gets blamed on the current government. Like I said though, I really dislike tories (for different reasons) & won’t vote for them this time.

Well there is a by election soon where I live. with a heavy heart I will vote Labour

This with bells on

Inflation has been dropping across Europe and the USA for 6 months or more. While ours has remained stubbornly high. That’s only one indication of the CoL crisis but it’s a key one.

I can't vote for my Labour MP. He thinks that people can change sex and that Im a bigot for wanting single sex spaces.

It is of course not evenly spread, but these things are quite easy to plan for if the government is interested in doing so.

Wow. All the people who don’t realise @jgw1 is being sarcastic!!

Labour.

Never Tory especially not this lot.

Oh, I thought the other posters saying they would vote Tory because school fees were the spoof, are they serious?

Every vote for Labour, Lib Dem or Green brings us one step closer to Gilead. I fear for girls and women under the leadership of parties who clearly hate females and won’t protect our rights. The Tories aren’t great either, but at least they haven’t completely sealed the deal to sell us down the river .

Anybody who think other parties are going to have access to more money for public services, or ‘redistribute wealth’ are dreaming. The so-called left wing parties are all talk - it’s easy when you’re in opposition. The planet is dying, immigration is now at an uncontrollable level, economies are struggling and social order is breaking down. The monied elites will protect themselves so probably best to vote Tory and at least to lock them into a veneer of public accountability and scrutiny.

Was it Labour, the Lib Dems or the Greens who have spent the last 13 years eroding womens and indeed mens rights?

we need a govt that will give priority to the space industry

@Screamingabdabz 100% this - well said.

Captured institutions have chosen to erode women’s rights and those three parties have all said publicly that they endorse that and will further strengthen the laws to erase biological women, and by extension their rights.

Despite mn Labour threads you can see other societies struggling with impact of immigration and general pressures.

Look at Italy and reaction from various EU countries over what to do about it. Disagreement and countries saying no, plus shift to the right. It won’t get easier.

Plus gender ID issue without challenge in some places and agree on who will push it here

I think in every election a lot of voters choose the opposition on the basis of "well they can't be any worse than what we've currently got" , especially when the Governing party has been in power for more than one election cycle (like the Conservatives have).

Sadly it often turns out that they are just as worse and sometimes even more worse than the previous Government.

Completely disagree that it’s easy to plan for. When pupil numbers fall, they don’t decrease in equal proportions across the country. Some areas will still be very oversubscribed and you can’t create extra places without spending a lot of extra money on infrastructure.

I think that you misunderstand my question. Which of the parties, Labour, Lib Dems or the Greens have allowed womens (and mens) rights to be eroded during their time in government for the past 13 years?

Labour

I don't disagree that after 13 years there needs to be a change of governing party. But if Labour get in (as they should) then if you think things are going to change for the better then you are going to very disappointed.

I have always voted Tory but never ever again.
However, I don't feel like I can vote for anyone at the moment so like others will spoil my ballot!