UK General Election - 12th December 2019 | Con 365, Lab 203, LD 11, SNP 48, Other 23 - Tory Majority of 80

How do you intend to vote in the 2019 General Election if eligible?

  • Brexit Party

    Votes: 30 4.3%
  • Conservatives

    Votes: 73 10.6%
  • DUP

    Votes: 5 0.7%
  • Green

    Votes: 23 3.3%
  • Labour

    Votes: 355 51.4%
  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 58 8.4%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 3 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 9 1.3%
  • SNP

    Votes: 19 2.8%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 6 0.9%
  • Independent

    Votes: 1 0.1%
  • Other (BNP, Change UK, UUP and anyone else that I have forgotten)

    Votes: 10 1.4%
  • Not voting

    Votes: 57 8.3%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 41 5.9%

  • Total voters
    690
  • Poll closed .
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Terrifies me is a bit strong. I just hate Labour with the same passion you probably hate the Tories. You would never vote Tory would you? Even if they had the most amazing manifesto ever.

That’s just fecking odd, I’ve voted both red & blue in Sweden (and centre) and if I returned back to the UK I’d vote for the party with the best manifesto.

Obviously.

Why are people so ridiculously narrow minded?
 
How did it start? Were you born with silver spoon inserted?

It's nothing to do with that really, there are plenty of us working class voters who can't stomach the idea of perpetual high taxation, overspend and fiscal irresponsibility. Not to mention Corbyn's specific brand of 'chip on his shoulder' politics over the wealthy, and some of the real nasties in his party who continue to deny the antisemitism issue.
 
Terrifies me is a bit strong. I just hate Labour with the same passion you probably hate the Tories. You would never vote Tory would you? Even if they had the most amazing manifesto ever. I suppose voting is tribal to a large majority. Not many floating voters in reality.
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I think you are right.

Which makes the whole thing even more bizarre to me. Political parties aren't sports teams.

I'm the same. I'd always vote for my interests/priorities, whether those were best served by red, blue or yellow.

Pragmatism is quite a rare trait these days, or at least social media makes it appear so.
 
Terrifies me is a bit strong. I just hate Labour with the same passion you probably hate the Tories. You would never vote Tory would you? Even if they had the most amazing manifesto ever. I suppose voting is tribal to a large majority. Not many floating voters in reality.
Why do you hate labour so much?
 
Terrifies me is a bit strong. I just hate Labour with the same passion you probably hate the Tories. You would never vote Tory would you? Even if they had the most amazing manifesto ever. I suppose voting is tribal to a large majority. Not many floating voters in reality.

According to the stats, about a quarter of people usually change their mind during an election.

And if you want to know, I was an inch away from voting for Cameron in 2010. Eventually I voted Lib Dem. I bitterly regret both those things of course in hindsight! :lol:

Then I was Green in 2015 and I still vote Green in local and European elections (feck Lambeth Labour council!).

Now I'm Labour because I like their policies. The reason I switched votes in 2010 though, is just that I think 10 years of any party is too much, the pendulum needs to swing the other way sometimes regardless of your natural inclination. New Labour was rotten to the core and I'm glad they got trounced in 2015 because at least there's actual differences between the parties again finally.

Problem is, I genuinely fear the Tories are going to destroy our electoral system if they get in again this time round. They've promised a new charter of human rights written by the psychopath Priti Patel, they've promised to pass a law saying ministers can change the law so that they aren't doing anything illegal when they get challenged in court, they're going to redraw all the constituency boundaries, and they're threatening to abolish the "leftie" media channels like the BBC (lol?) and Channel 4.

I'd honestly vote for Tony Blair again over this lot and I'm in the hang Tony for war crimes brigade. At least he didn't try to fundamentally destroy our democracy.
 
Terrifies me is a bit strong. I just hate Labour with the same passion you probably hate the Tories. You would never vote Tory would you? Even if they had the most amazing manifesto ever. I suppose voting is tribal to a large majority. Not many floating voters in reality.
so you must absolutely love being lied to as long as it angers the snowflake liberals?
 
It's nothing to do with that really, there are plenty of us working class voters who can't stomach the idea of perpetual high taxation, overspend and fiscal irresponsibility. Not to mention Corbyn's specific brand of 'chip on his shoulder' politics over the wealthy, and some of the real nasties in his party who continue to deny the antisemitism issue.
Yes, a disproportionately high tax burden on the working class such as that which currently exists is smashing. The Tories are a fine upstanding bunch too, thankfully there's no nasties or antisemites there.
 
I think you are right.

Which makes the whole thing even more bizarre to me. Political parties aren't sports teams.

I don't think you're in a minority, perhaps historically but not anymore.

I'm a Labour member but I'd certainly have voted Lib Dem if i needed to. I think i actually voted Green last time round, ultimately your vote is either choosing a preference or communicating policy direction.
If Labour lurched to the actual right rather than just centre then people would abandon them.
 
Fair one but you cant pretend Labour voters aren't exactly the same.

They are not the same because they are literally voting for policies that are beneficial to the everyman yet you who apparently also an everyman literally are voting for policies against you for the sake of tribal pride.
 
Fair one but you cant pretend Labour voters aren't exactly the same.

I diametrically oppose everything the Tories stand for. It’s not about personalities or tribalism. Unless they suddenly leaned left then I won’t be voting for them but if they did have a great manifesto that I believed was good for the country then I’m not pig headed enough to think rule out ever voting for them.

I can fairly confidently say that our ideologies are never going to align though.
 
Apparently, Boris just arrived to his constituency for further desperate last-minute campaigning as it’s extremely close.
 
I was raised in the 80s by a father who dragged himself up and started his own business. I was raised to love Maggie and hate Labour.
Interesting.

I was raised to love all things labour, and never vote Tory.

But then I started to think for myself.
 
I diametrically oppose everything the Tories stand for. It’s not about personalities or tribalism. Unless they suddenly leaned left then I won’t be voting for them but if they did have a great manifesto that I believed was good for the country then I’m not pig headed enough to think rule out ever voting for them.

I can fairly confidently say that our ideologies are never going to align though.
This.
My vote has changed parties but unless the Tories had did an almost complete ideological 360 I cannot imagine I'd ever find their manifesto appealing. They are, in general against most things I like and for many things I dislike.

This is why, for instance, I'd always be anti BNP. I am also anti Liverpool (although far, far, far less so) but that is just stupid tribalism. My hated of the BNP (and the Tories) is not.

Edit: As was pointed out to me, an ideological 180 not 360. That was a circular argument.
 
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Labour are worse for it TBH. All the 'Tory Scum' shit all over Twitter, general tribal nastiness and cultish support of JC.
To be fair Labour policies don't generally try to screw over the most vulnerable in society, there might be a link between the Tories doing that and people choosing to call them scum.
 
I hope we get some scraps to be happy about tonight at least. A little moment of joy in what will likely be a tumescent evening. Raab, IDS or Boris would be nice.
 
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