Every single time I see a politician slating another party's policies and saying they would do better I find myself shouting at the screen HOW.
HOW would they do better?
TELL me EXACTLY what you would do to change the policies you're slagging off.
STOP criticising other parties until you can provide a WORKING alternative.
I've been a lifelong Labour supporter and was brought up by lifelong Labour-supporting parents and grandparents. No more blind voting for me!
Politics has evolved. People voting for a particular politician's charisma are wasting their vote. People refusing to accept any other party than the one they've always voted for are wasting their vote.
What the hell happened to common sense? On the coldest day of the winter so far I spoke to a vocal Green supporter who told me that oil and gas are killing this country and we have to stop using them NOW. I asked him HOW are we heat our homes if we stopped fossil fuels tomorrow. HOW will lorries transport food around the country if diesel is banned tomorrow?
I want to vote for a forward-thinking party that plans for the worst and implements them. I also want to vote for a party that cares about women.
Many of us have been treated disgracefully by men whether we know it or not (Wales Labour is laughably currently "working through" their plan for gynaelogical care for women).
It's not just gynecological though, is it? It's everything from drugs to heart attacks to VAWG. It's recognising that we are different from men.
We're half the population and it's the half that's treated shoddily from pay to domestic chores to attitudes from men everywhere we encounter them from walking past building sites to using changing rooms to lying on operating tables.
I WANT a party that cares or at least pretends to. Revoking the GRC (or at least shining a light on it) is a start.
Supporting our farmers to help us supply our food chain without relying on other countries and supply chains and, until a WORKING solution is found to heat and light our homes and businesses, having our oil fields producing for the UK is also a voting priority for me.
Our reliance on products from other countries was brought to the fore by the Pandemic, Brexit, and even the Ever Given incident but we don't seem to have learned much or put policies in place. Not to mention the dire lack of skilled people working here.
I want solutions, not pie-in-the-sky ideologies. I want women to be seen as equal to but retain our differences from men.
Oh, and as a bi-sexual woman, I'd also like to see the T+ separated from the LGB but I don't think that's ever going to pop up in a political manifesto even if politicians realised how important it is and how it would help clarify the trans debate.