Your voting intentions

[Tankrizzo]

How over 140 of you (at current count) still think the Tories are worth your vote, god only knows. And this is from a long-term Tory voter who will be sitting this one out for the first time ever.

[trails]

Kermit power said:

If nothing else, the Returning Officer will give it all due consideration!

I can certainly see the value in that

[trails]

Timothy Bucktu said:

Well, yeah...Nothing will come of it I'm sure.
But if non of the parties are worthy of your vote, at least it shows the people who fought for that vote that you recognise their achievement by being bothered to at least turn up to the ballot box.
A spoilt vote is still a vote and counted as such.
You vote for who you want. I'm effectively going to vote 'why did he spoil his vote'.
I guess turning up without an ID is also counted...but that's more of a 'dumb ass' vote.

Thanks for the reply

[Tom8]

wc98 said:

Tom8 said:

Evercross said:

Tom8 said:

The only lib dem of any gravitas was Charles Kennedy. And he was a massive alcoholic.

A recovering one (with the help of fellow addict Alastair Campbell), until the death of his father plunged him back into depression which was then exploited by Ian Blackford and his campaign group in 2015.

What that fat bd did to Kennedy will never be forgotten.

What did he do I am not aware of that story?

Enter Ian Blackford, as SNP prospective candidate in January 2015. Blackford, a merchant banker for Deutsche Bank, re-cast himself, entirely unconvincingly, as a Skye crofter. He immediately adopted the unsubtle dog-whistle campaign hashtag: ‘Where’s Charlie?’ It wouldn’t have required much to find exactly where Charlie was, both physically and mentally. He was mourning the death of beloved parents; grieving the early demise of his best friend; fighting a horrible disease; struggling to hold a family together.

As soon as Blackford launched the ‘Where’s Charlie?’ slogan, I wrote that it seemed ‘a clear attempt to personalise the contest on grounds which are undesirable and unnecessary. Mr Kennedy’s fragility is scarcely a state secret. On top of that, he is coping with a string of tragedies and losses.’

In response to the whistle, Blackford’s rottweilers were out the traps. One of his closest associates, Brian Smith, convener of the SNP’s Skye branch, wondered online if Charles, ‘has “a problem” that stops you going to Westminster?’ Up to election day, Smith bombarded Charles’s social media sites with abuse, describing him as ‘our own arch-Quisling’.

Smith was soon one among many Cybernats. One of Charles’s constituency staff had to work full-time on deleting social media abuse. There were vile anonymous messages attached to Charles’s car and pushed through his letter-box. When he returned home after the confirmation of his defeat, the bins had been emptied across his driveway. The level of sheer cruelty was beyond comprehension – and all totally unnecessary in terms of the election’s outcome.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ian-blackford-...

Worth reading the whole article. The nickname of Scottish Nasty Party is apt in this case.

Wow, thanks for sharing. How shameful.

[Desiderata]

Tankrizzo said:

How over 140 of you (at current count) still think the Tories are worth your vote, god only knows.

As I've said previously, it's the "least worst" option for many of us.
Not a great state of affairs, but I'd rather vote for my collie than risk letting the SNP win in my constituency.

[Slowboathome]

Tankrizzo said:

How over 140 of you (at current count) still think the Tories are worth your vote, god only knows. And this is from a long-term Tory voter who will be sitting this one out for the first time ever.

Lots of people vote based on the calibre of their local candidates.

[S600BSB]

Slowboathome said:

Tankrizzo said:

How over 140 of you (at current count) still think the Tories are worth your vote, god only knows. And this is from a long-term Tory voter who will be sitting this one out for the first time ever.

Lots of people vote based on the calibre of their local candidates.

Quite right

[LunarOne]

S600BSB said:

Slowboathome said:

Tankrizzo said:

How over 140 of you (at current count) still think the Tories are worth your vote, god only knows. And this is from a long-term Tory voter who will be sitting this one out for the first time ever.

Lots of people vote based on the calibre of their local candidates.

Quite right

And lots of people vote based on the calibre or policies of the opposing party who they wish to prevent from getting into power. If you don't like the Tories' current incarnation but abhor the idea of a labour government, then you must vote Conservative as anything else is tantamount to handing the keys to Keir on a silver platter.

[Wills2]

Desiderata said:

As I've said previously, it's the "least worst" option for many of us.
Not a great state of affairs, but I'd rather vote for my collie than risk letting the SNP win in my constituency.

I'd vote for the Tories to keep the SNP out if it was the only option agreed.

[Rocket.]

Like a Labrador returning to eat it's own vomit I shall be voting Conservative.

[eharding]

Rocket. said:

Like a Labrador returning to eat it's own vomit I shall be voting Conservative.

Catchy. You should write in to CCHQ with that one. They'll have it emblazoned down the side of a battle bus in no time.

Maybe even develop it into a set of themed messages...

e.g. "If you enjoy rolling in fox-st then you'll love voting Conservative"

[Roderick Spode]

bloomen said:

Roderick Spode said:

Westminster is too constrained… Once you get out of Westminster, whether it’s Davos or anywhere else, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future. Westminster is just a tribal shouting place.

Still waiting to hear what the actual question was.

Do you always require spoon feeding?

Interview by Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel with Sir Keir Starmer in Davos recorded circa 21st January 2023 said:

Maitlis: So, let’s just ask you quickly. You have to choose between Davos and Westminster.

Starmer: (Without hesitation) Davos.

Maitlis: Why?

Starmer: Because Westminster is too constrained, it’s closed, and we’re not having meaning . . . you actually engage with people who you can see working with in the future . . . Westminster is just a tribal shouting place”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVXMhhsXlo

[Sheets Tabuer]

I like how this thread is about to turn loony

[JackJarvis]

Rocket. said:

Like a Labrador returning to eat it's own vomit I shall be voting Conservative.

[James6112]

The Tories are miles behind, on a site where the vast majority are middle aged white blokes.
Toast come July!

[B'stard Child]

Pitre said:

My MP is Liz Truss with a big majority. Suggestions as to what I should be doing on July 4th welcomed...

Mine too - cock and balls or vote for a candidate with hope that they can beat her

Cock and balls then

[Tom8]

B'stard Child said:

Pitre said:

My MP is Liz Truss with a big majority. Suggestions as to what I should be doing on July 4th welcomed...

Mine too - cock and balls or vote for a candidate with hope that they can beat her

Cock and balls then

Can you not vote for the lettuce? Again.

[CivicDuties]

Tom8 said:

B'stard Child said:

Pitre said:

My MP is Liz Truss with a big majority. Suggestions as to what I should be doing on July 4th welcomed...

Mine too - cock and balls or vote for a candidate with hope that they can beat her

Cock and balls then

Can you not vote for the lettuce? Again.

If there isn't someone dressed as a giant lettuce standing against her then that will be the final nail in the coffin of this country. Perhaps Lord Buckethead could persuade to get his missus to dress up as Lady Romaine. That'd be a little gem.

[B'stard Child]

Tom8 said:

B'stard Child said:

Pitre said:

My MP is Liz Truss with a big majority. Suggestions as to what I should be doing on July 4th welcomed...

Mine too - cock and balls or vote for a candidate with hope that they can beat her

Cock and balls then

Can you not vote for the lettuce? Again.

If it’s on the ballot paper yes

[snuffy]

EmBe said:

snuffy said:

dandarez said:

Because spoilt ballot papers are 'counted'.

Counted.
Ignored.
Destroyed (like every other ballot paper).

Pointless.

Just like the vote you cast for whichever part of the Omniparty you're supporting then.

Pointless.

For the first time in almost 40 years I will be abstaining.

I will not, however, be drawing a cock and bks on my ballot paper.